I’m not one for idle gossip, especially in the badlands of the transfer silly season, however one story has been doing the rounds for the duration of the World Cup, and has gathered pace aplenty today.
Yes, Torres to Chelsea seems to be the story on every hacks laptop right now, with rumours of Roman jetting out to the World Cup to talk personally with him, about a deal that would smash the British record fee.
There’s also been the inevitable sound-bytes leaked by agents and the all encompassing ‘sources close to Torres’ citing his desire to stay in the Premiership, and play in the Champions League. With Liverpool on their knees, Torres wants out.
The question shouldn’t be if this story be true or not, to qualify that we only need ask; do we really need him?
Last season we scored a record number of goals, with Drogba the focal point, augmented brilliantly by Lampard, Malouda, Anelka and yes, even Kalou. We also have youngsters such as Borini, Sturridge and Kakuta coming through the ranks, all expecting playing time this season, if what Carlo said about them is to be taken at face value.
So why would we need Torres? An undoubtedly excellent striker on his day, with a brilliant goals to games ratio, however the problem is, that ratio doesn’t have enough games. Torres, gets injured a lot.
Surely a space in the squad would need to be opened too, meaning a player leaves. Who though? Anelka would be the obvious candidate but he’s just signed a new deal, and would Torres be as unselfish as our Nic? Drogba then? Not a chance.
Kalou improved immensely last season to a point that he became more effective than Joe Cole, so after letting the latter leave, I doubt it would be him either, so just where would Torres fit in?
The answer is; he doesn’t.
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Agreed – He won’t be going to Chelsea – Most probably end up a Man City now they’ve got Silva.
Can’t we not just get him and stick him anywhere(right back maybe?) just so that the Scousers can’t have him anymore?
Ok. How mqny games will Chelsea play next season? And, how old is Drogs and Nic? Kalou & Sturridge? Give me a breake! We need Torres! He is a 100% goalgetter when fit. At Chelsea he will get the rest he need! Go for El Ninho!
Well said.
hey hey hey… dont lie to urself. we need torres so bad that it hurts. drogba is good yeah we know. his partner nic is on n off. we need to win champions league. we fell out early because our top players were injured. el nino will bring more competition between the strikers Go Roman bring him to the Bridge.
Who said we dont need Tores in Chelsea, or where is he going 2 fit in, Tores will b used along side Drogba and with 2of them in front The Champions League is ours thanks.
I agree with Aage, we want to compete on all fronts next year, having 3 premium forwards who can rotate in and out and stay fresh will only help that, i have a feeling the 3 would cope and ive heard one of the selling points is that ancellotti wasnt going to use him all the time like he was used at lfc…
Chelsea need torres more than the Nose need the air.please chelsea,money is mearnt to spend it.buy torres now.befor man.city buy him.remember story of robinho.
we need EI ninho Anelka OUT, let’s go for TORRES, and also the midfield needs to be field up as soon as possible!
I’m with Aage on this one. He’s young, he needs to muscle up a bit and will be a great long term replacement for Drogs, who although still on top form, will surely start to decline at some point. Go for him I say.
Aage is completely right apparantly ancellotti is planning to rotate Nic Drog and Torres for different matches with torres playing in bigger matches than Nic. The only reason torres got injured so often with liverpool was because he had to play in every game.