No going back for Chelsea in Torres deal
So, it’s being tweeted this afternoon that Chelsea will shortly announce the signing of Fernando Torres for £48m – a lot of money, an obscene amount really but if the alternative is £40m plus Nicolas Anelka, then the extra money is something the club just has to suck up really. I was asked yesterday what I thought Chelsea needed right now, given yet another dire performance from us and my immediate response was ‘we need to sign Torres’. Not because I believe in throwing money around, if anything I’ve always been against huge transfer fees, but because firstly Didier Drogba either needs a kick up the arse or a move elsewhere and secondly, because our apparent inability to get our man these days could cost us a lot more than a few million.