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by **Bermenstein** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:14 pm

Put him out of his misery and bring him back home. At £20 Mill, Forgiven, but not forgotten (as to his betrayel).

Personaly I can see him going to Italy, to recover from his embarresment at Chelsea.

by **Bermenstein** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:38 pm

Would hate to see auld Whiskey nose, fergusson, take him to Man Ure......

You know that Kyunt would turn him round to being great again, dare i say, even better than he ever was........

Horror of Horrors......

by **Greavesie** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:46 pm

Bermenstein wrote:Would hate to see auld Whiskey nose, fergusson, take him to Man Ure......

You know that Kyunt would turn him round to being great again, dare i say, even better than he ever was........

Horror of Horrors......

no way will Man U spend £20m on Torres in January, not with the problems they have in midfield and defence. There'd be uproar if they spent that on a striker without addressing anything else

by **Bermenstein** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:47 pm

Greavesie wrote:
Bermenstein wrote:Would hate to see auld Whiskey nose, fergusson, take him to Man Ure......

You know that Kyunt would turn him round to being great again, dare i say, even better than he ever was........

Horror of Horrors......

no way will Man U spend £20m on Torres in January, not with the problems they have in midfield and defence. There'd be uproar if they spent that on a striker without addressing anything else

Greavsie, I hope Fergie thinks the same.

Stay away from our Spanish Bastaaard!!

by **Fowler_E7** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:49 pm

Bring him home if he really is available for £20mil, no doubt he would be humbled after his huge failure at Chelsea and he would want to get back in the good books with the fans by scoring loads of goals, also he would have his reputation to restore as his stock has fallen massively since January.

by **Greavesie** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:54 pm

Fowler_E7 wrote:Bring him home if he really is available for £20mil, no doubt he would be humbled after his huge failure at Chelsea and he would want to get back in the good books with the fans by scoring loads of goals, also he would have his reputation to restore as his stock has fallen massively since January.

thats where my concerns are, a good chunk of his value was down to him effectively being the face of LFC, I really dont think that would be possible anymore - so if he wasn't to recapture the form that made him great there's not a lot of room for recovery. At least when he was poor towards his last few months he remained a strong marketing tool for us

by **Redman in wales** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:58 pm

i dont want him back. NOt for any judas reasons, but for the simple fact that post injuries, he's not the same prolific striker. He'll get the odd few, but not worth £20m anymore.

What would be funny though, if we did bring him back for £20m, in 12 a month period we'd have bought Carroll and Torres for a combined net transfer fee of £5m

by **metalhead** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:09 pm

Guilleme Ballague said Torres won't go anywhere, all stories are false, plus Torres, Lukaku and Sturridge are their only strikers when the others go to the African Cup of Nations. Ballague also went on that Liverpool don't want him back

GuillemBalagueGuillem Balague
Anelka goes. Drogba+Kalou to African Cup, only Lukaku and Torres left for that period. Torres want 2 stay, CFC don't sell/loan. End of

Remember Ballague is the first one who said Torres is going to Chelsea before the stories came out

by **Benny The Noon** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:30 pm

Torres has played ten more games than Carroll since he left and only scored one more goal than him ( and been fully fit the whole time ) .

People are crucifying Carroll yet want Torres back after what he did ?!

Torres was finished as a top class striker 18 months ago - let him rot at the chavs

by **laza** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:05 pm

Well once Manager says he is not for sale, might as well start packing his bags

Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has insisted he is not looking to offload £50million flop Fernando Torres and has also endorsed the 'massive magnitude' of Frank Lampard.

Reports have suggested the Stamford Bridge club are prepared to listen to offers in the region of £20m for a striker who they only signed from Liverpool in January 2011.

But Villas-Boas, who took over at Chelsea this summer, has remained adamant the Spain international is not for sale at any price.

Torres has scored just five goals at club level since his unsavoury Liverpool exit almost 12 months ago and has recently fallen behind Didier Drogba in Villas-Boas' plans.

"Fernando Torres is not for sale at any price, now or in the summer."
Andre Villas-Boas Quotes of the week

The ex-Atletico Madrid star has started only 11 matches this season and was an unused substitute in Monday's Premier League victory over Manchester City.

Speculation

But Villas-Boas said at a press conference on Thursday ahead of Saturday's trip to Wigan: "Fernando Torres is not for sale at any price, now or in the summer."

Speculation has also suggested Frank Lampard, 33, will be sold either in January or at the end of season and the England international has been linked with LA Galaxy.

Villas-Boas is thought to want to reduce the age of his squad and has over the past month been preferring the central midfield partnership of summer signings Raul Meireles and Oriol Romeu.

But Lampard came off the bench to score the winning penalty in the victory over City and his manager, who is just eight months older, has offered an endorsement of Chelsea's 2001 signing from West Ham.

"Frank Lampard is a player of massive magnitude to this club," said Villas-Boas

by **Reg** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:27 am

Interesting about Drogba, kinda seals Torres' fate?
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Torres will not be sold – until the summer...
£50m misfit has until the end of the season to improve his game or Chelsea will offload him

Rory Smith Thursday 15 December 2011

Fernando Torres will not leave Chelsea in the January transfer window but for the first time doubts over the long-term Stamford Bridge future of the most expensive player in British football history have started to emerge.

Chelsea yesterday moved swiftly to dismiss speculation the club would consider bids of as little as £20m for the Spain international, who has scored just three Premier League goals since moving to west London from Liverpool on the final day of this year's January transfer window, insisting the 27-year-old remains "part of the club's long-term plans".

More pressingly, of course, Torres will be expected to lead the line for Andre Villas-Boas's side when Didier Drogba departs for the African Cup of Nations next month. The Ivorian, whose form has relegated the former Atletico Madrid striker to the substitutes' bench in recent weeks, could be absent for as much as six weeks, and with Nicolas Anelka due to depart for Shanghai Shenhua and Salomon Kalou likely to follow, the Portuguese manager will be left with just Torres and Daniel Sturridge as senior forwards.

But despite the club's public stance, and Torres's immediate importance, it is thought Villas-Boas would be willing to countenance a sale in the summer, should a suitable offer arrive.

The manager discussed the possibility of selling the striker last summer, just six months into his career at the club, only to afford him a second chance to rediscover his spark; Torres's poor displays, combined with Villas-Boas's interest in the likes of Edinson Cavani, the Napoli striker, and his former charge Radamel Falcao – once of Porto and now with cash-strapped Atletico Madrid – indicate that he will not be afforded a third.

Cavani, the prolific Uruguay international, has been in a rich vein of form ever since moving to Napoli, helping the club beat Manchester City to a place in the Champions League knockout stages. While the Italian side's president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, would be reluctant to let his most valuable asset leave, he is said to be conscious that the fee would help construct an even stronger unit.

Falcao, meanwhile, was Villas-Boas's primary attacking requirement last summer, but joined Atletico – Torres's former club – for £38m when the manager elected to stand by the Spaniard and Drogba. The Spanish side's financial troubles, though, would make a sale possible.

Villas-Boas is not thought to be targeting a striker in the January transfer window, despite the absence of Drogba. Chelsea have not yet made any formal contact with Universidad de Chile over their much-coveted forward Eduardo Vargas, rated at around £10m. The Portuguese is, it is thought, more concerned with reviving his interest in the Uruguayan winger Alvaro Pereira, available from Porto for £20m.

The prospect of Drogba remaining in the long-term was boosted when Villas-Boas last week agreed that the 34-year-old could play at the highest level for another two seasons; it is Drogba's desire to be granted a two-year contract extension which has prevented him agreeing new terms at Stamford Bridge thus far.

by **metalhead** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:01 pm

Rory Smith usually gets things wrong, but I think he is right that Torres might be up for sale in the summer if he does't perform, its as simple as that.

by **Dundalk** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 7:58 pm

@OptaJoe: 0 - The no. of players who scored more goals than Fernando Torres while he was playing for Liverpool. Heyday." "@OptaJoe: 73 - The no. of players who have scored more Premier League goals than Fernando Torres since he joined Chelsea. Drought."

by **Aussie Style** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:34 pm

Fernando Torres has accused Liverpool of lying over his £50m move to Chelsea last January.

The Spain striker claimed that he had been shipped out of Anfield after a row over broken promises.

He told Canal+ Liga TV: "The Liverpool fans don't know the truth about why I signed for Chelsea. The fans don't even know half of what happened.

"They don't know what the people in charge at Liverpool are like - they have a completely different perception of what they are like.

"They made promises that they didn't keep and I left because I realised I didn't have time to be part of a project that would take years.

"I have nothing against the Liverpool fans. I didn't want to leave Liverpool the way I did but the club lied. I was let down and I don't understand why the fans hate me."

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news....28.html

by **damjan193** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:57 pm

He's been saying this for a while. Why doesn't he say the whole truth then? All we know is that he requested to be transferred so that he can go to a "bigger club", his words and doings, not mine. This is how we know it so how does he want us not to hate him?

What could the broken promises be anyway? That he's guaranteed a CL place with the club? Who can promise you that? It's really up to him if he'll play in the CL or not. Or maybe he expected a pay raise? If that's the case than he's a greedy Judas and we still rightfully hate him.

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