I believe Torres needed assurances of where the club was going, not about Rafa, he celebrated in the Spain locker room with a Liverpool scarf. That was the first signs we got from him over the summer regarding him staying or not, and when he got back from his well deserved holidays, away from the media understandably (though we all wish we'd hear him making statements about how he loves it here), he said he always wanted to achieve things with Liverpool. Think the two, or so stars, Elisha mentioned may have left was Carra and Gerrard. Carras interviews in the final months of last season had a lot of "i dont know if im staying" "might have to look for pastures new" etc. feel to them.