Fernando Torres

[nono 791]

Worst transfer in Premier League history ?

[edetarod 2,155]

Worst transfer in Premier League history ?

it's not even remotely close

[Pacquiao 1,834]

Worst transfer in Premier League history ?

Easily Andy Carroll!

they paid £35 Million for a guy they had to loan out after a season! at least we bought a player who was at least worth the money at one point in his career Carroll has never been worth £20 and probably never will!

[nono 791]

Easily Andy Carroll!

they paid £35 Million for a guy they had to loan out after a season! at least we bought a player who was at least worth the money at one point in his career Carroll has never been worth £20 and probably never will!

Haha I thought about Carroll too but at least he cost less. Yeah Torres is probably #2.

[Las7 951]

Well at least Andy Carroll is no where near 175k p/w - but still a donkey

Besides it speaks volumes to the fact that Looserpool management decided Carroll is not good enough and tried their best to not pay his wages and sell him - while we had Torres torpedo our EPL season, after a season of awful football we even promoted him as first choice striker.

[Waterfall 893]

Tancredi Palmeri ‏@tancredipalmeri

OH OH OH! Chelsea should receive a 20m € bid from Barcelona for Fernando Torres in next days, according to catalan paper Sport

If this happens, I won't hate Barca anymore

[nono 791]

If our board doesn't accept that .......

[English Freak 456]

Tancredi Palmeri ‏@tancredipalmeri

OH OH OH! Chelsea should receive a 20m € bid from Barcelona for Fernando Torres in next days, according to catalan paper Sport

If this happens, I won't hate Barca anymore

this sounds too good to be true.

I just don't see it happening.

[Mustafa 885]

Here's my thinking... We all see how Torres plays on a regular basis. Its AWFUL. Just Awful !

But on the odd occasion that he does turn it on... he gets a knock in the or the ref pisses him off etc. For example, in the Steaua game at the Bridge, he got his face kicked in and he looked a new man ! He looked a new man.... yes he missed a pen but he looked energetic and lively.

And If anyone can give Torres a metaphorical kick in the face ... its Jose

[Mustafa 885]

Not sayin its gonna happen... yeah

[different level 1,056]

It's fine that you offered some stats, but usually it's more than that.

Even if you look at Drogba's 8 seasons with us he scored 30+ goals in only two of them, with only 14-15 goals average per season through the other 6. The problem with Torres is his long spells of bad form, when he is literally hopeless and the team is suffering a lot. That's why we should let go of him given we have a good offer or if Napoli accept him being part of the Cavani deal.

[jmarlow 458]

So? It's irrational to pay that much money for a bench warmer. Ba's wages are at least a £100k less a week. I can't believe people actually think it's okay to pay someone who's coming off the bench £175k a week? Where's the rationality in that? That's the kind of money you pay your number 1 striker, something Torres clearly isn't good enough to be.

because we are not a club who struggle financially you cant compare us to most other teams as most other teams dont have the money we have and you cant compare Torres to most other strikers as his transfer to Chelsea and his wages are not a normal situation that any other club has to deal with! We should be keeping the player who offers us more and imo that is Torres.

As i said if the board feel the wages are an issue then he should leave, but if not then he should stay as he is better than Ba imo and will always be favoured more than Ba anyway because of the money spent on him.

[Special Juan 28,100]

Graham Hunter apparently said it's one to keep an eye and Barcelona are looking at it....if so, good. Get Cavani, keep Ba and bring back Lukaku...job done.

[jmarlow 458]

Tancredi Palmeri ‏@tancredipalmeri

OH OH OH! Chelsea should receive a 20m € bid from Barcelona for Fernando Torres in next days, according to catalan paper Sport

If this happens, I won't hate Barca anymore

Id rather a straight swap Torres for Thiago.

[The only place to be 11,313]

Tancredi Palmeri ‏@tancredipalmeri

OH OH OH! Chelsea should receive a 20m € bid from Barcelona for Fernando Torres in next days, according to catalan paper Sport

If this happens, I won't hate Barca anymore

This will go with the Galatasaray bid for Mikel in the folder marked 'Too Good To Be True'.

Maybe they're looking at a replacement for Villa and maybe they see him as a viable 'Plan B' but after Jose coming back and all the other good stuff that's happened to the club I'm seriously doubting this.