Cut-Price Torres

If no one pays up then Roman needs to cancel the contract making torres a free agent, a suitable compensation for him should be negotiated. There is no point keeping him here running down his contract which for some reason Chelsea board have let several players do in recent times.

The only real hope I have is that the club can negotiate some kind of a deal where we get falcao in exchange for tores plus a considerable amount of cash

Will be good if it can truly happen... a player swap plus money for any decent CF will also be good, they should just do something about him....

I'm speechless nowadays when it comes to Torres, everything that can be said, either as encouragement or as criticism, has been said by just about everyone on this site. Starting to believe my own recent suggestion that he's cursed, after all how else do you explain it?

If no one is willing to pay £15m then I agree RA should cancel his contract a swap deal does not sound bad if you ask me. Thank Torres for the goal against Barca.

Problem is, no team will swap their player for Torres. Maybe, Athletico Madrid will agree but we will still have to pay good cash and I don't think we should spend big on a CF, we should only spend big on our Midfield. We need at least 2 quality Midfield players that will help dominate games for us.

Only a team like Anzhi who have way more money than sense would pay 15m for Torres. We may get some takers for 10m but that will be the best we can hope for. If we can convince Atletico to accept their old boy with 20-30m for Falcao i would do the deal. I am still of the opinion that if we are to compete with the big boys of the BPL and europe we are kidding ourselves if we dont have one top class goal scorer and as good as both Ba and Kraken are they are not at that level yet. As for El Nino we all know at this point he is not even a striker.

djdutts, He's not worth more than that. He is worthless. There is no club in the Premier League would swap their centre forward for Torres. I can honestly say he is the worst player I have ever seen play for Chelsea. He literally looks like a fan that has won a chance to play for his club in a lottery draw. Utter garbage.

This season: Torres All Comps - 15 (7BPL) goals, Lukaku BPL only - 12 goals. I think Lukaku needs to be first choice striker for us next season.

Torres should just go and leave us alone.....i dnt care his contract is cancelled, sent on loan forever or even sold for 5m..... He should just go.

Torres will leave this summer and when he does he will go on and score a hatful for his new club. Firstly because the new team will probably set up more chances in the right parts of the field for him and because he will probably feel a lot more wanted at the next club,especially if that club is athletico Madrid which I think it will be as I still feel he will be part of a deal that see's falcao brought in this direction. We have seen glimpses of the real Torres and that player is still in there,it's just CFC and strikers never ever seem to work out for some reason and it has happened ever since I was about 10 and I'm 35 now! Fernando Torres will move and next season he will bang in at least 30 goals in all competitions. Laugh now but let's come back this time next season and let's see the articles of "why couldn't he have done this for us" and "so now he starts scoring for fun" I can see it now. Torres is not past it yet and I bet he proves everyone wrong. And I bet this time next year we are moaning at falcao for not scoring a goal or more a game! Swings and roundabouts as they say where I'm from lol

I'd be amazed if Torres went anywhere and became prolific again (unless he goes to the SPL). Lets be honest, it's not his work rate that is the problem. Even when he runs his socks off in a match he is still totally ineffective as a striker.His days were coming to an end even when he was at LFC due to injuries. I don't buy that whole "CFC is a graveyard for strikers" stuff. This team on it's day creates plenty of chances. Our owner has just had a knack of buying strikers he really wants and ignoring the important issues of whether they were declining/shot/good enough or if they would fit our system and not forgetting if our manager actually wanted them. Torres is mentally shot and looks like someone completely out of love with football. I'm not saying he can't get back in the goals elsewhere to a lesser degree but he is not top drawer any more. We are just going to have to bite the bullet and use him as a makeweight or sell him for peanuts. He will cost the club far more if we persist with him.

Dave-David -- Your comments are spot on. Torres is still a magnificent player, its just that we have a graveyard full of strikers, and Falcao's future wont be any different from Torres if we continue to play the way we do. I dont know know where do you stand on the Lampard issue, but as long as he is playing, our strikers will never be able to get involved in the team. His goals have cost us a lot of world class strikers. He is supposed to create for the strikers, and not send them wide with the passes while positioning himself in the centre. I have never seen a DM anywhere in the world, other than Chelsea, who is found ahead of the number 9 on the pitch and totally non existent in the centre. As i said, i dont know where you stand on this, but mark my words, the day Frank and Ramirez are out of the starting lineup and we have a better midfield duo on the pitch, you will see a whole new Chelsea.

I will give Torres for free to any club even if it means I will have to live on the streets cause I know how much it is going to improve Chelsea by getting rid of Torres.

15mil would be good business for us despite the big loss on transfer fee, 10-12mil though more realistic, and even then it is hard to think on who would gamble with Torres? that aside the sum of his wages is probably a bigger stumbling block than anything else. 175K a week can only be afforded by the best and top clubs - of which i dont see any really wanting him? I dont think we would also want to pay out nando 15mil+ cash to buy his contract out? The economics of everything Torres realted just stink really.. Its hard to see how a deal can be done. Remember, he earns far more than Falcao, so a swap + cash to atletico becomes even more difficult even if atletico want him back, as Im sure they wont want to pay a worse player more money?

Tiraspol - I agree, Lukaku is definitly proving hes good enough to be the main man, and what is exciting is that he is still so young. Sturridge proved this at Bolton and now at Liverpool but never got the game time here, despite at times showing he was good enough.. I hope that Lukaku is given the right oppurtunities. Just about anything right now is an upgrade to Nando!

couldn't* -- By the way , you must have watched the tonights game against United. Lampard had a bigger impact on the match after he was removed. You had to check the team sheet to confirm if he had started the game in the first half. That is the kind of contribution he has to offer to the team these days. His time is up and he should leave with best wishes and respect intact. Or you could worship his posters in memory of his goals.

he can be our own Rooney, if properly trained and motivated...he has lost his pace & striker instinct, but hasnt lost his vision, or ability to bring in team members into play