By William Griffiths

PUBLISHED: 07:29 EST, 20 November 2012 | UPDATED: 08:13 EST, 20 November 2012

Former Juventus manager Fabio Capello is the latest to claim Fernando Torres has lost it.

Several high-profile figures have questioned whether the 50m striker can rediscover his best form.

Tough decision: Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo faced selection dilemma over Fernando Torres

Tough decision: Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo faced selection dilemma over Fernando Torres

And former Chelsea player and manager Ruud Gullit even thinks the club should use him as a makeweight in a deal to capture free-scoring Atletico Madrid star Falcao.

Torres has struggled since his British transfer record move to Stamford Bridge from Liverpool, scoring just 11 goals in 58 league games.

Blues boss Roberto Di Matteo faced a dilemma over whether to pay him in Chelsea's do-or-die Champions League clash with Juventus on Tuesday and Capello, who won three league titles with the Serie A club, can understand why.

'Fernando Torres is slowly losing it,' said former England boss Capello to Italia 2.

'I don't know what is happening because he was very good when Rafael Benitez was the Liverpool manager.

Dropped: Torres is unlikely to start for Chelsea on Tuesday night

Dropped: Torres is unlikely to start for Chelsea on Tuesday night

'But he has not found inspiration [at Chelsea] and scored the goals that used to distinguish him.

'Before, he was unpredictable with Liverpool but now defences manage to beat him for speed and this is worrying.'

Meanwhile, Capello added in the same interview that he had no choice but to resign as England manager earlier this year after John Terry had been sacked as captain.

Terry was removed from his role as England skipper for a second time after he was charged by the FA for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand - a decision that Capello strongly disagreed with.

Old acquaintances: Capello with Terry (left) last year

Old acquaintances: Capello with Terry (left) last year

'I left England to defend what I had done for John Terry. On the field he was always an important player,' said Capello.

'The English are moralists - they want people to behave in a certain way. They make decisions too quickly as they did in this (Terry) case. He was later cleared by a court of law.'

Terry - who has now retired from international football - was cleared of racism in court in July but was fined 220,000 and banned for foutr matches by the FA last month.

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England will no doubt miss Terry. It is obvious. You cannot vilify a player to that extent. The FA just robbed Peter to pay Paul in JT's case. Just a United fan anyway.

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capello is really on the ball isn't he

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Capello had " lost it" just before he took the England job and should have been sacked the morning after England were humiliated by Germany in the last World Cup. I find it distasteful, also, that a player like Torres, and I'm not a Chelsea fan, has critics seemingly lining up to slag him off after a temporary loss of form. Grow up and shut up, Fabio.

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He was on the decline during his last 6 months at Liverpool so please stop blaming Chelsea on it ,i'm sick of it .

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Spot on Capello with everything you said.

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Best £50 million ever earned by Liverpool followed by the biggest waste of 35 of it on carrol

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I wonder if Torres would choose his present situation where he is regarded as a flop with a Champions league medal over his time at Liverpool where he was an idol sans medal. Lol

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WELL SAID CAPELLO.JT SHOULD RETURN TO THE ENGLISH TEAM AS HE IS A PROLIFIC FIGURE AND HELP THEM FOR WORLD CUP IN BRAZIL

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Torres not start tuesday night? don't be rediculous not only will he start i fancy him to score a brace......

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At last, Capello actually makes sense! Torres has definitely lost "it" and won't find it again until he leaves Chelsea. He doesn't want to be at Chelsea, that's obvious to anyone. I'd drop Torres tonight and give the hungrier, more dangerous Sturridge a chance. People are quick to criticise Sturridge for not scoring at West Brom but at least he got into shooting positions, something which Torres has done only once in his last 148 minutes of domestic football! Come on Robbie, put Terrible Torres out of his misery by benching him, it might be the wake up call that he needs as he's in a safety zone and might improve if he has to fight to get back into the team...although I very much doubt it.

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