Fernando Torres - Has he already peaked at 27?

Big things were expected of the young Spanish international when he first signed for Liverpool FC in March 2008, and he certainly delivered, scoring 65 times in 102 appearances. Becoming a popular figure to the Liverpool, faithful, it was even recorded that his surname was the most popular to feature on the back of a Premier League shirt in the world in the year 09-10. In the run up to the World Cup 2010, Torres was not to play another game of the season as, on the 8th April he would undergo surgery on a knee injury which had been troubling him for most of the second part of the season. This meant that his first game back was Spain's first game in the group stages of the World Cup, and it's all gone downhill from there...
His group stage games were regarded at "below-par" by the Spanish manager, but was backed as he had only just started playing again after exactly 2 months out. He started  the rest of the games but was regularly out-performed by his strike partner and top scorer, David Villa. This meant that in the Final against Holland, Torres was only a 105-minute substitute in the victory, which saw Andres Iniesta score the winner. Critics described his performances as poor, claiming that Fernando had shown disinterest and laziness.
Despite this, the then-new Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson insisted that the club would not sell their star striker, who had played such an important part of the team for the past 2 seasons. Shortly after, Torres pledged his support and committed himself to a future at Anfield. After returning to club action in a substitute appearance against Arsenal, he then scored only 5 more goals going into the New Year. Going into New Year he was seriously linked with a move away, but the question was, who would buy a totally out-of-form player. A player who had been out of sorts since the very start of the World Cup. Turns out that that club would be bitter rivals Chelsea,  who were linked with a £50 million deal since the very start of the January transfer window, The deal was finally done on deadline day, and he became a Chelsea player. After signing, he then released a statement saying that he was "proud to be joining one of the top clubs in England", a cruel blow to Liverpool who had brought him up to the speeds of English football.

We are currently in March 2011, and after almost 2 months being a Chelsea player and many of chances, he still hasn't scored for his new club, and still is playing with a disinterested attitude. Some critics say that he'll never play the way he used to at Liverpool after his knee surgery. For me, the main part of his play was his speed, and the ability to terror even the best defenses, whist also being impressive in the air. Whether he will be able to regain the speedy part of his game remains to be seen, but at the moment he is being outperformed still by both Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka. His commitment in passing the ball has dropped, and now I feel that he is trying to hard to score and prove himself to Chelsea fans. He is trying too hard to live up to his incredibly high price tag, which is having a negative effect on both his play, and the team-mates around him. Maybe he'll be back being one fo the worlds best strikers, but for now it looks like his knee injury is still playing on his mind. He was one of, if not arguably still, the worlds most exciting striker and I for one hope he recaptured his form shown in his Liverpool days.