He's not "the best player we ever had".
He was done before he got here. He couldn't move well, from the minute he arrived.
Digression about the perils of daring to say anything about St Torsten that didn't/doesn't confirm his wonderfulness: I posted that he couldn't run after the first game he played against Dallas in 2011, and got blitzed for doing so. Also got blitzed for suggesting that his note to RPB, I can't remember exactly what form that took, at the end of last season, about how committed he was to Toronto, may have been less than it seemed.
So before 18 of you give me stick for posting this, my view of the guy is, he was a professional who did his job and never mailed it in. But he didn't have it any more, and he knew it, and instead of packing it in, he stuck it out for the money. Same as you or I would do. But he's not, never was, St Torsten of TFC.
He did show flashes of his former self, especially in the game at the Rogers Centre last year.
The acquisition of Torsten never made football sense. It was a business decision to try to stanch the decline in SSHs, which didn't work.
He is a God in Bremen and will resurface there I am sure.
He owes Klinsmann for helping him to get this $7.5 million gig. Big time.