Returning to Spain?

if he thinks he will go back to athletico and play like he is doing now and think they will still love him then he is in for a big surprise .. i am surprised the amount of love and time chelsea fans and i offered this guy ,

Did he really have a stomach bug or was Rafa trying to " defend" his horrendous display vs Swansea??

@ all VC members.....is it possible to give a club money for buying ur player?........if it is.......give dem 15 million pounds and pay him his salary for a year.....LOL....TORRES LEAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank God oooo @ last, best news of the year

If you go, I will drive you myself there.

I will be happy If atletico sign him in dis january either loan or permanent. I just dnt want 2 c dis guy in blue shirt anymore.... @had2bg. Wat is ur prob wit frank?

I'll prefer a cash purchase, I don't mind even if its for 10million...please leave and let's buy a replacement already

I will believe this only when it actually becomes reality. Tabloid speculation is cheap. For this to happen Roman will have to do a major repentance and admit that he was gravely wrong on this deal..the man does not repent easy.

*FOR US

Sturrrridgeeeee....now that's what you call a striker. Poorres Take notes, Hopefully you can grow up to be as good as him some day!

Sturridge has scored and overall improved Liverpool's game. What a talent that could have been nurtured into world class :(

What kind of nonsense stomach Bug . He must have had the stomach bug for a few years cos he didnt just start playing crap yesterday.

Studge misses more than he scores,we wont miss him much. Not a bad game for him though,scoring in his pool league debut and notching up 2 out of 2,not a bad record.

If you don't attack manure, you lose. Liverpool for relegation.

Liverpool deserved atleast a point from that game,but could get any,no thanks to a wasteful Studge.

Torres simply can not leave fast enough!!!

There's no chance Torres will be loaned out! None at all! If he is leaving and is going back to Madrid it will be as part of any falcao deal. I've had a huge feeling for ages that Torres would be a sweetner in the deal as Madrid loves Nando and Nando loves Madrid so in a way it's perfectly set up as falcao will deffo move this summer so Madrid can replace him with Torres who knowing our luck will then go on and be a total success back home! Personally I would rather cavani than falcao but I would bet £100 that he is off to man city.

bad day for chelsea both manchester clubs won. Arsenal are a disgrace of a club and arsene wenger is suitable only as an academy coach. If arsene wenger loses his job he can only be a good youth coach.

I would rather City win when manure win. Else manure will run away with it.

Rumor is nonsense. Atletico is sitting 2nd and don't have the cash to pay for Torres's wages. Have no idea where they will get it with the Spanish Tax authorities breathing down their neck. Malouda trained with the kids in order to keep his salaries. Torres will wash dishes at Chelsea in order to keep that 175k a week salary. The only way out for Chelsea is to pay him off. In case anyone doesn't know, Chelsea owes Torres another 36mm pounds for the next 3 years in wages. Given the low interest yields in Europe, today's value of that future salary is only a few quids from that 36mm. That's a significant hit and will likely impact FFP. Given that he will most likely join another club for maybe a third of the salary lets say 70k a week if we sell. Chelsea will EITHER have to pay him off the value of the remaining 100k a week for 3 years which is 21mm pounds or spread it over time for the remainder of his contract. Either that or we get on our knees and pray a Rurkish Club or Qataris club comes calling for him. Anyone who thinks we will get 10mm - 15mm pounds for Torres is joking. Case in point - Wesley Sneijder. Galatasaray is paying only €10 million for him. Similar age with Torres and arguably a better and more in form player. With a salary of only €6 million a year, only Galatasaray could secure him. Imagine Torres who earns double that.....

What an impressive performance from pedro obiang against Milan. Worth a look at in the market.

Kaku is right it mustbe rubbish - I wont be upset if its not.

i think roman should take torres home and should fit him in his playstation and let him play there only till his contract get over and after throw that playstation in the garbage...becuase it simply belongs there

KAKUfrank, Hard to believe but Sneijder might not be in better form than Torres! My understanding is, like Malouda, he's been banished to train with the kids and hasn't played since September. Also I think Galatasaray intend to pay him E160k per week after tax. This is the reason nobody in England is interested in him. If he was willing to play in England for less than £100k per week I'm pretty certain there would be plenty of interest. If he wants to play in a top league he'll need to take a pay cut. If Chelsea play Ba ahead of Torres his situation will be similar to Snjeider's more than Malouda. Malouda only has 5 months left on his contract and knows he'll be playing somewhere next season - or even this month - but obviously on lower wages. Both Snjeider & Torres are 3 years younger than Malouda and both have over 3 years left on their contracts. No player in their 20's can sit and rot in the youth team for 3 years. (except Winston Bogarde!) If Torres is banished to oblivion at Chelsea he will lose sponsorships and his place in the Spanish team - how he is still in the team I'll never know! - so he will definitely want to leave. A pay-off somewhere around £10m should be enough to get rid of him. I still think it would be good business for Chelsea to Give Atletico Torres, Coutious and £20m for Falcao. We can always buy another goalkeeper when we need one.

Guys WTF is happenin with malouda,i taught by 1st of january 2013 he would have parked his lugages out of cobham and head to lebanon(if he likes)

shlok27, Cech's just signed a new contract and could easily play for another 5 years. We don't need Courtious at the moment. We can sign a new goalkeeper when we need one, so yes I'm saying give A. Madrid our goalkeeper as part of any deal.

@cobham yaa chech has signed contract with us..but he wont be the same in next one or two year..he is doing great now..but you cant say abot his fitness in next one or two year...coutios is the future thats why real and barcelona are looking for him...i wont sell my future best goalie for any deal...as i told before this falco madnes is gong too much...i hope he signed for other club like psg...would be a boon for us...we dont need 50 million striker for him....i personally rate rvp above falcoa..

if the truth be told, i don't want us to sign another 50 million striker if we can get someone to get the 50m albatross off our hands. but the most important thing we need to sort out is to get a metronome in the midfield and also a inexpensive but efficient striker like lewandoski. the torres debacle should have taught our board that such gamble if it backfires does so spectacularly and heap unnecessary/unwanted pressure o the club, player and team especially with the type of press in england.

Dwonder, that's why Chelsea should follow my plan of swapping Torres, Courtious and some money for Falcao. It will make the whole deal cheaper in cash terms and get rid of a dead weight who I think might actually do okay in Spain.

As far as no player in the 20s sitting on the bench. I don't actually agree with you. Adebayor was ready to sit on City's bench until his salary was sorted. Not until Man City agreed to pay part of his salary did he move. Atletico Madrid apparently said they will take Torres back if he accepts a wage cut. Why will I take 10mm pounds from Chelsea as pay off when I am due 35mm pounds????

i don't think at all that we will have to pay-off torres.. because more than us' i think he is fed up of CFC.. everybody is not malouda and adebayor.. torres himself will move to salvage his career rather than rot on the bench.. and KAKU.. how we owe him 35 million pounds?? he earns 175k-a-weel. that means 9.1 million pounds for 52 weeks. and it will be 27.3 milion pounds for 3 years.. i dont think our board is that much dumb to let him go with pay off rather than we gaining a transfer fees. especially in last one year or so.. our board has been doing pretty fine.. at the most we will pay him 5 million pounds from 10-15 million we will receive. because although we know he is finished.. he is still a brand name. and our board will do well to get him of our books.. i read in the news papers that chelsea still value him at around 20 million.. so that tells you the ploy of our club..

and the most important will be to move him out in this window on loan to some spanish team.. i am quite sure he will do pretty well in spain..

Torres's contract left is 3.5 years not 3 years.......Valuing him at 20mm pounds is pretty rubbish news because that means Chelsea has taken an impairment of Torres on their books. If their took an impairment, they would have reported it in their financials. Again, he is not going to take the pay off of 5mm to 10mm - 15mm pounds payoff. This is just wishful thinking. Regardless of his career or not. The same fans here were saying the same thing about Malouda. Malouda also mentioned playing time being important since he has ambitions to make the 2014 squad. The only way Torres leaves is if he is not worse off which is in one way or the other he will get paid his 35mm pounds at the end of 3.5 years. Be it through pay off. For Torres to leave Chelsea, he should at least be able to pocket between 50% - 75% of the 32.5mm - 35mm due to him for the next 3.5 years......

if it is not for Ba's dodgy knee, I would prefer him as our main striker and buy a backup striker for around 15 millions.

I dont think Torres is the kind of guy who chases money...He wants to play regularly...That will definitely prompt him to accept a low wage at some other league, if he feels it would benefit his play...But, we should not send him on loan, but on permanent transfer.

As a matter of making him realise the club is fed up, he should be sent on loan this January window.