Chelsea make £50 million bid for Torres

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Chelsea are waiting to hear back from Liverpool having lodged a £50 million bid for Fernando Torres, according to a transfer insider.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has given the green light to what would be the biggest domestic transfer in Premier League history, but will have to out bid Manchester City.

An insider close to the negotiations told Soccernet: "There have been two verbal offers for Torres, Chelsea are willing to pay £50 million, but Manchester City offered verbally £25 million more!

"Liverpool would naturally want the bigger sum, but Torres as made it perfectly clear that he won't be joining Manchester City, even though City would go as high as £200,000-a-week wages.

"Even so Chelsea would pay Torres £140,000-a-week and when you're at that level, the important thing for the player is to go to a club with Champions League football and the chance of winning the major honours.

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They'd be smart to take the 50 mil. Torres is busted, they can prob get Forlan.

Goodbye Fernando... yeah I don't see how Liverpool is going to reject this offer. Even though it's a huge blow, with that money we can surely invest in some other player.

who is this Chelsea girl and where did she get this kind of money?

Originally Posted by Shzm13

They'd be smart to take the 50 mil. Torres is busted, they can prob get Forlan.

do you not remember Forlan's performance in the premier league? You should being a Man Utd fan........I know I do.

Forlan is pretty much going to stay in Spain for the rest of his career.

Torres to Chelsea would be weird but i think he could help them out and $50mil is a bit pricey but worth it.

Torres had a bad world cup but he could still wake up and have a good season. So yeah if they could take him that'd be good but as Shzm13
said, they should try to take Forlan. (he was AMAZING in these world cups and is really fresh, also provides a lot of things for Uruguay)

Torres at Chelsea would be mad and it would give Liverpool some money to bring in some fresh faces.