I was absolutely devastated when Fernando Torres left Liverpool. He was such a great player.
I wouldn’t have minded if he had gone back to Spain, to Barcelona or Real Madrid. He was capable of playing for them, but with him going to Chelsea, that hurt us all. You can’t compare Chelsea to Liverpool, but he went there and that hurt me. It hurt us all.
But time moves on. He’s not a Scouser, he wasn’t born in Liverpool, he’s free to do what he wants.
He went to Chelsea and it hurt us all at the time, but you can tell he still loves the club. I certainly could working with him at the Legends game on Saturday.
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He was desperate, desperate to score his goal and delighted with the response of the fans. He loved the day, absolutely loved the day. Time moves on and old wounds heal. He is part of the Liverpool family.
Amazing what Liverpool have done for Sven
The Legends game was the perfect day. What the club did for Sven, after what he’s done for football, was amazing. A very humble, nice gentleman.
It was nice working alongside Sven with Rushie and John Barnes. Sven knows his stuff. We went two goals behind but then, kicking into the Kop, we turned it around which is very fitting because we’ve done it so many times.
We changed the system and the players, everyone got a game. At half-time we were up the wall a little bit but we knew what we had to do, make more chances, and we did that.
You’ve got managers on the pitch too, like Steven Gerrard. He took the game by the scruff of the neck in the second half. He knew what had to be done.
He didn’t even have
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