No player has ever proven me more wrong then Torres has, ever. Despite seeing the explosive skill, I have never found anymore more overrated, choker, pussy, loser mentality then I did Torres in Atletico, he stagnated completely and seriously looked like he would go down the fizzling Tamudo path or such in his career (big fish in small pond) despite his talents. He was just too annoyingly underwhelming with them as time went (perfect example for the over used word choker).
If you check what poeple said about him when he was signed by Pool, I can gurantee you that you will find overwhelming majority said he is risky and very overrated. I tended to be more harsh then them.
So, FYI, I'm not praising him out of habit

Not at all, totally evolve player with Pool, his highlight with Atletico was allways fucking Barca royally, and virtually only them, and in style, but since he left Atletico he plays he faces Barca all the time((on the contrary with Mr PoPoPo, I ADORED Drogba in Marseille, he loioked Zlatan-esque there, totally amazing, but he dissapointed me with Chelsea, first seasons was like a shell of what he showed there).