Fernando Torres

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Apparently done his medical.

[DavidEU 2,023]

As I said yesterday, I'm guessing he'll be confirmed and presented as a Milan player before their match against Lazio.

[1chelsea 864]

See ya bro

[ParNolio7 285]

As I said yesterday, I'm guessing he'll be confirmed and presented as a Milan player before their match against Lazio.

Why is he on a hospital bed, are they trying to inject some sort of killer instinct in his blood??

(I know it's the medicals before someone makes a smug remark)

[Special Juan 27,513]

*Waits with anticipation to move to loaned out*

[ParNolio7 285]

Anyway, I don't get why we would agree on a loan deal for an old player like Torres. Isn't the whole idea of a loan deal that you try to improve a young prospect until he's either good enough to play for your own team or raised his value for a proper sale? So I think we should've sold him. No good reason to keep him connected with Chelsea. It's not like he's exactly the fan's favourite ...

[Tomo 21,736]

Anyway, I don't get why we would agree on a loan deal for an old player like Torres. Isn't the whole idea of a loan deal that you try to improve a young prospect until he's either good enough to play for your own team or raised his value for a proper sale? So I think we should've sold him. No good reason to keep him connected with Chelsea. It's not like he's exactly the fan's favourite ...

Probably because we couldn't shift him permanently, and the choice was loan him or keep him. No contest.

A 2 year loan now means he has effectively left the club anyway.

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

Anyway, I don't get why we would agree on a loan deal for an old player like Torres. Isn't the whole idea of a loan deal that you try to improve a young prospect until he's either good enough to play for your own team or raised his value for a proper sale? So I think we should've sold him. No good reason to keep him connected with Chelsea. It's not like he's exactly the fan's favourite ...

this forum sometimes makes me so fucking angry...

[DavidEU 2,023]

Anyway, I don't get why we would agree on a loan deal for an old player like Torres. Isn't the whole idea of a loan deal that you try to improve a young prospect until he's either good enough to play for your own team or raised his value for a proper sale? So I think we should've sold him. No good reason to keep him connected with Chelsea. It's not like he's exactly the fan's favourite ...

I think we tried to sell him all summer. But a striker on £175,000 who scores 5 league goals a season is pretty difficult to shift. It was a case of agreeing to this deal, or keeping him.

[ParNolio7 285]

this forum sometimes makes me so fucking angry...

Don't. People have different opinions sometimes, that's why they invented forums.

[Diego 433]

Anyway, I don't get why we would agree on a loan deal for an old player like Torres. Isn't the whole idea of a loan deal that you try to improve a young prospect until he's either good enough to play for your own team or raised his value for a proper sale? So I think we should've sold him. No good reason to keep him connected with Chelsea. It's not like he's exactly the fan's favourite ...

[ParNolio7 285]

I think we tried to sell him all summer. But a striker on £175,000 who scores 5 league goals a season is pretty difficult to shift. It was a case of agreeing to this deal, or keeping him.

Yeah, the wage is a big problem of course. But still, any price would've been good to sell him. So total cost wise, Milan could still have made a pretty good deal. Wouldn't be surprised if Torres becomes a valuable player again in Serie A.

[DavidEU 2,023]

Yeah, the wage is a big problem of course. But still, any price would've been good to sell him. So total cost wise, Milan could still have made a pretty good deal. Wouldn't be surprised if Torres becomes a valuable player again in Serie A.

It wasn't a case of what price we got for him, I think we would have accepted peanuts. Selling him would have been difficult because why would Torres agree to a move to take maybe £75,000 a week, when he could stay here for two years on more than double that? It was an impossible sale.

[ParNolio7 285]

I don't see why me remark is so dumb. We are still paying his enormous wage now. We might as well breach his contract then and pay off the two years. Same principle.

And I know we've been trying to sell him but maybe we've still been asking too much for him then. As I said, any price would've been good, even a symbolical pound. Just to get rid of that immense salary that's not leading to anything.

[Tomo 21,736]

Yeah, the wage is a big problem of course. But still, any price would've been good to sell him. So total cost wise, Milan could still have made a pretty good deal. Wouldn't be surprised if Torres becomes a valuable player again in Serie A.

I would, the guys is completely finished.

[ParNolio7 285]

It wasn't a case of what price we got for him, I think we would have accepted peanuts. Selling him would have been difficult because why would Torres agree to a move to take maybe £75,000 a week, when he could stay here for two years on more than double that? It was an impossible sale.

It probably was.

I can see why Torres wouldn't want to see his salary cut in half, but if there's any pride left in him as a football player, he should've settled for about 30% less and try to get his career going again. To rot on the bench for two years is no way to end a career for a player like Torres.

But for him the loan is obviously a brilliant deal, still gets paid the same money and can try to relaunch his career. For Chelsea though, I think it's a pretty bad deal. I think we shouldn't have accepted it. Better to keep him at the club in that case, until he grows tired of sitting on the bench and who knows maybe if a few players get injured he might even come in handy every now and then. At least there would still be a reason why we're paying him in that case.

[DavidEU 2,023]

[Diego 433]

I don't see why me remark is so dumb. We are still paying his enormous wage now. We might as well breach his contract then and pay off the two years. Same principle.

And I know we've been trying to sell him but maybe we've still been asking too much for him then. As I said, any price would've been good, even a symbolical pound. Just to get rid of that immense salary that's not leading to anything.

We arn't playing all of his wages, we tried to sell him and in what world would paying his contract off be a good idea? it would cost between £16-18m!!!