Barcelona forward Ferran Torres has said seeing a psychologist helped him recover his form after he hit rock bottom following his €55 million move from Manchester City last January.
Torres, 22, returns to England on Thursday to face Manchester United in the Europa League on the back of his best display of the season in Sunday’s 2-0 win over Cadiz.
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That performance was the culmination of a lot of hard work off the pitch, with the Spain international revealing he struggled to deal with the expectation generated by his price tag, the Europa League loss to Eintracht Frankfurt last season and an injury in preseason.
“I found myself in a bottomless pit and I could not see a way out,” he told reporters this week. “It had never happened to me before. That was the moment when I decided to work with a psychologist.
“I lost my confidence. Everything was affecting me. Seeing [a psychologist] will become increasingly normalised in football. There are weeks when I don’t go and others when I go three times. We don’t always talk about football, we also talk about my private life.
“It’s been painful, but at the same time it has been one of the best experiences because now I feel stronger.”
