For almost two and a half hours, Ferran Torres shared his experiences at Barça with Jordi Wild for his YouTube channel The Wild Project. The Barça forward explained what it means to be a Barça player, what his arrival at the club was like, his change of mentality or his experiences as a footballer that he exploited when he was very young.
When he found out that Barça wanted him, Torres assures that he was crazy, “I called my agent all the time to see if there was news, until there was news, until there was news, they decided to go all out and contacted Manchester City (. ..), but in the end it was key that they (some City managers) came from home, from La Masia and facilitated the signing.”
“City was a team that was rising like foam (...), but in the end Barça is something different. Every player who reaches Primera dreams of playing for Barça. The insistence that the mister, Xavi, had on him going there was the key,” said Ferran, sure of the decision he made.
Regarding the conversation he had with Pep Guardiola, Manchester City coach, to tell him that he wanted to go to Barça, Ferran assures that "it was screwed, worse than leaving him with a girlfriend." When he told him, the Catalan coach did not hesitate to support the player: “I can't tell you no, it's my Barça,” he told him.
Regarding Gavi's injury, the shark commented that "it is hard, we are on top of him, we are there for whatever he needs, doing our part to, as hard as it is, make it as pleasant as possible."
Barça is going through a difficult period, and the Foios winger comments that “it's a bump, it's better to go through it now than later.” Although he believes that “the most important thing is to win, you must also get as close as possible to playing excellence.”
This season Barça is winning games in the last minutes and Ferran believes that “you have to have faith.” In fact, he compared it to the Champions League that Real Madrid won in 2022. Continuing with the Champions League, Ferran is fully confident in winning the Champions League and says that “we are going for it” and hopes to score in the final.
Regarding Xavi Hernández, Torres assures that “he likes to push and get the best version of oneself, he is a coach who follows the philosophy of Pep and Luis Enrique and the Barça school and I think he is a perfect coach for Barça,” he confesses. .
“Obviously we have to get angry because we are not playing at our level and (Xavi) tries to reassure us that the season is very long,” he said.
Ferran, who knows firsthand the pressure that comes with being a Barça player, commented that he agrees with Xavi's words about the environment and that although there is criticism, the team is with him: "We are a team."
Last season was difficult for Ferran and one of the things that made him change was talking to his team and asking for their help: “I'm going to change but I also want you to be there for it, I want you to be a fundamental piece of this puzzle because In the end this is not just my thing. “I am the one who is on the field and the one who is seen, but the invisible work that is behind everyone,” commented the Valencian winger to his family.
According to him, one of the moments that changed him was meeting the Spanish UFC fighter Ilia Topuria, and seeing the unconditional support he had from his team. Talking to him and seeing his mentality made Ferran embrace Ilia's way of seeing life and wanting to be a better “Ferran” every day.
The Barça footballer joked about the impact his new nickname has had. He himself commented that this nickname came from an interview by Topuria himself with a reporter. He mentioned it at a meal with the players and from there everyone began to put sharks in nets and hence “The Shark”.
He also explained his relationship with Luis Enrique during the last World Cup: “Luis is a spectacular person, the first call after it became known (Ferran's relationship with his daughter) he released him in front of the team. To this day I believe that he is the coach who has had the most impact on me, because even playing less he gave me his confidence and made me feel the best, he has been a coach who has motivated me a lot.”
The elimination of the World Cup in Qatar was a very hard stretch for all the members of the team, not only in football terms, but also knowing that surely, from that moment on, they would never be the same team again, “we were a family.” .
