Liverpool owners lied to me about their plans so I left and joined Chelsea instead

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The ex-Liverpool striker claimed he had no choice to move to Chelsea in January 2011There have been numerous bitter exits from Liverpool in the club's recent past. Torres was regarded as amongst the finest forwards in the world during his early Anfield years and the club sought to ensure his contract reflected this standing.The 2008/09 campaign witnessed Liverpool mount a Premier League title challenge, eventually coming up short against Manchester United by merely four points.

"Fernando is one of the best strikers in the game and, at his age, can only get better," he declared after Torres signed his fresh deal.Torres was excited about the prospect of clinching Liverpool's first title since 1990. However, just a year and a half later, he would be wearing Chelsea blue.Some supporters have sympathised with Torres over his departure from Anfield.

In the middle of that, they finally sold the club," he said in Simon Hughes' 2016 book 'Ring of Fire', referring to FSG's takeover of Liverpool in 2010.In a 2011 interview with Spanish newspaper Marca, Torres said: "Liverpool fans have stuck with the story the club gave and they don't know the real story. "I was really happy at Liverpool but if you remember at that time the club was about to be sold and it was a very difficult situation," said Torres."They sold all their best players, Javier Mascherano left, Xabi Alonso left, [manager] Rafa Benitez left, and they started bringing in young players so they needed maybe five, six, seven years to create a winning team again and I didn't have that time because I left my home in Atletico to win trophies."Unfortunately there were many lies by the owners that Liverpool had at that time and in the end I needed to find my own way which was Chelsea who I thought would be the club who would offer me the chance of winning trophies."Despite securing a Champions League title with Chelsea in 2012, Torres never truly reached his peak at the club.