When was your tipping point regarding Torres?

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2012 club world cup

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I understand that, but that goal was amazing. You can't tell me you didn't lose your mind when he scored.

Of course but it doesn't change how much of a flop he was, just like Bosingwas interception shouldn't stop him getting the critics.

It was a great moment, but not a 50m repaid moment.

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Empty net miss against United.

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Wasn't a fan of that transfer to begin with and definitely wanted us to sell him in the summer of 2011.

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A couple of subsequent games after Swansea red card.

Though I rekindled myself in the Sunderland game when he took and scored penalty and generally played with conviction. I believed in Rafa effect on Nando.

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Anyway, it's Torres 3rd anniversary of that moment in the Camp Nou. Like was said in Mikel thread, maybe talk about positive things on birthdays ?

Against all odds campaign in 2012 Champions League will always be the most recognized by this moment. For this I'm very grateful to Nando. In the decades when we will talk how we won our first of couple of Champions Leagues, we will always relive this moment again and again. I have big, big smile on my face now. It was all worth it.

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“This season I felt things I had never felt,” said Torres. “I felt they have treated me in a way I was not expecting, not the manner for which the club brought me here. We have had many conversations and now the season’s finished we will have more talks to see what happens in the future because this is not the role for which I came and I’m not happy.

All this makes up for it, of course. Right now, I do feel it’s all worth it but the truth is I’ve gone through some very bad moments. The worst moments of my career during the season and I am not willing to relive those moments.

There have been many ups and downs and many moments where I felt lost and I didn’t know what to do and where to be. I want to thank my family, the club’s owner who’s always supported me and backed me and, above all, the fans. If it wasn’t for the fans many times this season I would have thrown in the towel.”

When he gave this interview the day after we won the Champions League

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It has been a slow, gradual but horrific realisation. All the more painful.

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Ramires was actually the one who scored the tie changing goal, and it was Bosingwa that made an interception that prevented us from going out yet it's Torres that gets heralded a hero despite nearly undoing all our hard work twice in the ten minutes he was on, Bosingwa was the hero of the moment for me because his contribution was actually the difference between us going to Munich and not.

If we signed Crouch, gave him the chances and excuses Torres got he would have scored goals some being vital doesn't change the fact he is nowhere near good enough to play for Chelsea.

Doesn't matter about the tie changing goal, Torres scored the equaliser on the night. It was the nail in the coffin and one final "fuck you" to all the doubters who said Barcelona would destroy us. You can't take that moment away from him, or the fans. That was almost as good as Didier's penalty just under a month later in terms of sheer elation.