Many Liverpool fans, Graeme Souness included, fear Fernando Torres might leave the club if the Reds are not in the Champions League next season.
But the amiable Spaniard says he’s here for the long haul. Here are ten top quotes from the latest King of the Kop...
1. When I was a boy, I was really thin, small, long-haired. I always looked young. People thought, he can’t play football. I used that to my advantage.
2. I can understand why the fans would sing Stevie Gerrard’s name, because he is from here. But now a player comes from another country and gets this? It’s amazing to get this.
3. Each player has one place in the world where he is happy and as a result he plays well. My place is Anfield. Every game I can play there I feel good.
4. It was difficult to see the Madrid people trying to stop the transfer, but last year when Liverpool played Atlético both sets of supporters joined in singing my name, so I think now the fans of Atlético understand my decision.
5. The first month at Liverpool was really difficult. When Jamie Carragher spoke to me I didn’t realise he was speaking English. Even now, when two Scouse people are talking between themselves it is difficult to follow.
6. I know some Liverpool words, but this is not the right place to say them. People say to me sometimes ‘you have a Scouse accent”, but when I go to a different place it may be strange for them, so I try to speak proper English. But I have a few words. ‘Deffo’, I like that.
7. My mother says to me, 'I see you in press conference yesterday speaking English, and you are very good’. That’s because she doesn’t speak English.
8. Sometimes I speak it as a code. If me and Albert Riera, want to discuss a move on the pitch, we will speak in Spanish so the opposition full back doesn’t understand us. It works for us because so far we have not come across an English fullback who speaks Spanish.
9. Scouse people are very respectful. If they see me walking my dogs in the park, they say, 'A’right Nando, lad'. And that is all. I like that.
10. When I go back to Spain I look the wrong way in traffic. I had a problem with a taxi in Madrid because I looked right not left, and I nearly got hit. Will I stay in England? Who knows! But for the next four years, yeah. Deffo.
