Fernando Torres has admitted that he knows he needs to score more goals at Chelsea to justify the price the club paid for him and his wages that go with it.
The Spanish international is currently out injured with a knee problem, but looked to be back to his old Liverpool form during a very heated match against Tottenham that resulted in him being given his marching orders after a second yellow for a supposed infringement on Tottenham’s Jan Vertonghen which video later proved to be fictitious.
“The people are looking at me thinking I should do much better and it’s true,” he told Chelsea TV. “The reason you pay that money for someone is that he has shown in the past he is worth that.
“Now what you have to show is you can have the same value or even more value for things you have done at Chelsea.
“I know I have many things to do at this club to give the confidence back to the owner. The amount of goals I scored last season should be the minimum,” said the 29-year-old.
“I want to ask that of myself but I have enough time. I signed a five-and-a-half year contract and I’m sure the future can only be better.”
Despite having a difficult start in London Torres admits that he has no regrets about the move.
“I’m so happy to have made that hard decision in my career to come to Chelsea,” he said. “Over time you can see all the success that we’ve had as a team so everything was worth it.”
“There has been an overreaction about everything. Overreact when I did a miss or if I have a red card or I hit the crossbar instead of scoring a goal.
“It was a good season (last year), a good number of goals (23) that gave us a chance to fight for trophies but if you ask the people, they will say he can do better, should do better.
“It’s like I said, with me good things are looking so-so and bad things are looking really bad.”
