Seven goals in six games, and counting
Roughly 50 million euros. That was the number PSG finally agreed to after a transfer saga that ran the length of the window, and two months later the fee looks like a discount.
Ferran Torres has seven goals in six appearances across all competitions since leaving Barcelona. No slow start, no adaptation period, nothing. The man who scored in the last World Cup final is already drawing comparisons with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whose own first months in Paris remain the measuring stick for any forward arriving at the club.
He turned up on El Hormiguero on Monday night, one of the biggest shows on Spanish television, and talked first about life in a new city. “In the end, our happiness depends a lot on what happens on the pitch, and when things are going well, the problems feel smaller,” he said. The move itself is still not quite finished, he admitted. Boxes remain unpacked. He joked that he would have liked to smuggle Pedri into one of them.
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The coach who tells players what they do not want to hear
Then the conversation turned to Luis Enrique, and the tone changed.
“The best thing about him is that he is completely natural. If he has to tell you something, good or bad, he says it. Players are not used to that. We are used to being told nice things all the time.”
The Spain international kept going. “As a coach and as a person, he stays true to himself and to the people around him. For me, he is like a football father, I have said that before signing for PSG. He was the first to give me confidence in the national team when I was playing less, and he is a coach who will get the most out of my potential.”
The two go back years. Luis Enrique kept picking Torres for Spain during a stretch when his club minutes had all but dried up, and that history explains a lot about how fast the forward has looked at home in Paris.
Barcelona are watching a goal a game leave the building
Paris wanted a finisher who could play centrally or drift wide. They got one, cheaply, who already knew exactly what the manager would ask of him. That has cut out the months of bedding in that usually come with a big summer signing.
Catalonia is where the story stings. Torres left convinced he was never properly valued at Barcelona. He is now scoring at better than a goal a game somewhere else, on Spanish prime-time television, calling another coach his football father.
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