Ferran Torres, a rise that’s no accident

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·20 September 2026

Ferran Torres, a rise that’s no accident

Ferran Torres may not have waited until his arrival at Paris Saint-Germain to reveal a true goalscorer’s instinct. At 26, the Parisian forward is confirming a development that Marcelino, his former coach at Valencia, had already largely anticipated, as he explains in L’Équipe.

Marcelino: “He’s going to end up as a center-forward!”

“He has very good dribbling, pace, can play in space but also in tight areas, and back then he already had a lot of finishing ability. Very accurate with both feet and with his head, he picked the right pass in the final third, in front of goal. He was already scoring, in training and in matches. During specific shooting drills, we on the coaching staff used to say to ourselves, ‘damn, he’s going to end up as a center-forward!’”

Marcelino’s testimony above all helps place Ferran Torres’s development in a broader continuity. His ability to play through the middle does not look like the artificial transformation of a winger who has simply been moved closer to goal. As early as his Valencia years, his former coach had already identified his finishing quality, his use of both feet, and his ability to make the right decisions in the final meters.

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A profile that also explains why using him as a striker can work in Luis Enrique’s PSG. Torres retains qualities normally associated with a wide player — pace, dribbling, the ability to operate in tight spaces — while also offering a real threat in the box. His versatility therefore does not rest only on his ability to fill several positions: it comes above all from the combination of qualities rarely found in the same attacker.

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