A selfish, goal-grabbing Fernando Torres is what Liverpool are looking for

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Fernando Torres has scored on average 15 goals a season for the last five seasons at Atlético Madrid, and while Liverpool will expect more it has to be remembered that he was the best player at Madrid and spent a lot of time playing deeper trying to create chances.

'Liverpool should be playing a more attacking brand of football this year and this will inevitably mean that we will be taking more chances at the back and may concede more goals'

But at Liverpool he will have a different role. His job will be goals, goals and more goals. His most likely strike partner, Dirk Kuyt, found himself in a similar position last year playing deeper and trying to create chances. He too, I hope, will be asked to concentrate more on scoring and give the midfield more of a responsibility to link and create chances.

Liverpool's midfield is where the biggest changes will come. No longer will we see Steven Gerrard wasting his talents on the right wing. The central position is his most natural and where he can influence a game most, and that is where he will play this year, but who his partner in the centre will be is anyones guess. Xavi Alonso and Javier Mascherano are the leading contenders, and although Mascherano was the better of the two at the end of last season an on-form Alonso would be very hard to ignore.

On the right of midfield, Yossi Benayoun and Jermaine Pennant will fight it out, and as much as Pennant is still improving, Benayoun seems a class act and although he is more used to playing behind the front two, he seems to have adjusted very well to the wing and showed how creative he is when setting up Torres' goal with a sublime pass in the game against Feyenoord.