Chelsea’s £50m flop Torres up for sale

Chelsea‘s misfiring £50 million forward Fernando Torres will go on sale next month.

His departure from Stamford Bridge is imminent with the club willing to listen to offers for him in the January transfer window.

Chelsea are willing to bite the bullet and offload the Spain international for £20 million.

According to a report from The Daily Mail, Chelsea were prepared to allow Torres to depart on loan to rebuild his confidence but it is believed that the club is now ready to offload the striker altogether.

The former Liverpool star, who moved to Stamford Bridge in acrimonious circumstances just 11 months ago, has scored just three league goals for the Blues.

Chelsea’s patience with Torres appears to have snapped and are willing to swallow a massive financial loss on a player whom they splashed a whopping £50 million, making him the most expensive footballer in Britain.

The Blues are prepared to do business with any side that offers around £20 million forTorres and match his £150,000-a-week salary.

New Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas arrived in London in the summer determined to reinvent the Torres of old that made the forward one of the most scintillating and potent attacking threats in the world.

The signing of Juan Mata from Valencia was even designed to coax the best out of Torres but the former Kop idol has failed to forge any sort of understanding with his compatriot.

Having been patient with the forward as he struggled to come to terms with the backlash and stigma from Liverpool fans following his defection from Merseyside, Chelsea are now sounding out continental sides in the hope of getting Torres of their books.

The struggling Spaniard has now been firmly displaced from the starting eleven and is behind veteran Didier Drogba and Daniel Sturridge in the pecking order.

Torres was unsurprisingly an unused substitute in Chelsea’s 2-1 triumph against Manchester City on Monday night and did not take part in the celebrations that ensued between the Blues’ substitutes and coaching staff following Frank Lampard’s winner against the Citizens.

While Torres enjoys a good rapport with the Chelsea faithful, he has failed to live up to his hefty price tag and reputation.

However, it seemed as though the Spaniard turned the corner when he struck a beautiful effort against United at Old Trafford in September, but the former Liverpool front man needlessly got himself sent off against new boys Swansea in Chelsea’s next encounter.

Torres initially went through a 13-match goal drought when he jumped ship to the Blues, before finally opening his Chelsea account in their 3-0 win over West Ham on April 23.

He then went underwent another nine-match goalless streak before hitting the target against the Red Devils on September 18.

Torres has fared no better this season, having only found the back of the net a disappointing four times, despite having started 11 games.

FIVE LEADERS FOR BARCA

The weekend has been round for FC Barcelona, ​​who returns to have his head five professional teams in their respective leagues. 

The fourth straight victory at the Bernabeu (1-3) has left Pep Guardiola’s leaders with 37 points, the same as Real Madrid, who have a game.Both teams have scored 50 goals, but the club has received eight of the 13 targets, which gives provisional leadership. In addition, the team agreed to eighth in the Champions League Group H leader 

Basketball, Unicaja defeated Regal Barcelona (72-62) with a great match with Chuck Eidson and Boni Ndong to score 10 victories and one defeat, while Real Madridcompleted a horrible weekend and added to Students (90-85 ) their second knock. In addition, Xavi Pascual leading the Euroleague Group D with eight wins in eight games. 

He also managed a win that may be worth half Intersport League Barca, who stormed the stronghold of Atletico Madrid (23-25) with a great performance from Daniel Saric goal Croatian and Romanian Laszlo Nagy (author of eight goals. In this way, Handball is section leader with 26 points in 13 days, two more than the red and whites … who also holds a lead in Group A of the Champions League with seven wins in the seven rounds played. 

The fourth section also underway in full swing. Alusport work over Barca to Real Cartagena on Friday (7-0) with a ‘double’ of Wilde and Fernandao and march leader with 39 points, the same as the well, but the Blaugrana have a goal difference of +53 to + general 33 of the Murcia. In addition, the team led by Marc Carmona has been through two rounds in his debut in the UEFA Futsal Cup and qualified for the Final Four. 

Finally, the club hockey skates laced on Saturday its seventh straight win at the Shum (5-3) with ‘double Ordeig Mia did and continues to lead with 25 points, three more than Coinasa Lyceum. In contrast, Cairo Gabi are second in Group A of the Champions League despite a creditable draw in the stronghold of Viareggio (3-3) in the one day disputed. 

The sports health club is so obvious that no discussion or support for the most obtuse.

Dynamo Moscow ready to take on Chelsea for Chile striker

Chelsea face a battle to land Eduardo Vargas as ambitious FC Dynamo Moscow are keen on the Chilean forward.

Andre Villas-Boas has monitored Vargas for some time and talkSPORT recently revealed how his club Universidad de Chile had put an £8.5m price-tag on him.

Chelsea executives have been trying to push through a move and they have reportedly flown to Chile in a bid to set up a series of meetings to thrash out a deal for the 22-year-old.

But the Russian club have since emerged as serious contenders in the race to land young striker Vargas, who is the top scorer in this season’s Copa Sudamericana.

Moscow are backed by one of the leading banks in Russia, VTB Bank, and will look to trump Chelsea when the window opens

Chelsea’s Frank Lampard frustrated by substitute role: I have not spoken to Andre Villas-Boas & do not know why I am not starting

The midfielder started on the bench for the second successive time in the win over Manchester City, but insists he is as fit as he has ever been and wants to play every match

City took the lead through Mario Balotelli, but could not hold on as they saw left-back Gael Clichy sent off and the home side take all the spoils through Lampard’s 82nd-minute penalty after Raul Meireles brought the game level.

The England international believes he is in great form and is as fit as ever, and cannot understand why he is not starting matches.

“I want to play, simple as that,” Lampard told BBC Sport. “I’m as fit as I’ve ever been. I’ve been in a good run of form and now I’ve not been playing.

“I haven’t spoken [to Villas-Boas] so I don’t know [why], simple as that.”

The 33-year-old has started just 16 of Chelsea’s 24 games this season, with the win over City his second successive time he was named on the bench, and he insists he just wants to be able to play consistently.

He added: “I want to play. If I didn’t, there wouldn’t be any point turning up, so maybe there’s a bit of frustration because of that.

“I just want to play and I like to play well. I’m always at my best when I’m playing regularly. I know I’ve got a lot to give.

Santos blow for Arsenal

Arsenal have confirmed that left-back Andre Santos is set to undergo surgery in Brazil on his ankle, ruling him out for three months.

The Brazil international picked up the injury in the Gunners’ Champions League group-stage defeat against Olympiakos last Tuesday, with the English Premier League club having already qualified for the knockout stages.

There had been hopes that the injury was not too serious, with the former Fenerbahce defender missing out on Saturday’s 1-0 victory over Everton at the Emirates.

But Arsenal have since revealed the 28-year-old will be sidelined until next year.

“Following investigations and subsequent medical opinions by club specialists, Andre Santos will have surgery to repair ligament damange in his right ankle,” a statement on the club’s website read.

It was thought Santos would only miss three weeks, but he now faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines alongside fellow full-backs Bacary Sagna and Kieran Gibbs.

RIVEROLA, THE MEANS ALWAYS TRUE

Marti is a wonder Riverola regularly in midfield that continues to distill actions talent. The Catalans jumped into the covers with his witty response before debuting Tuesday in the Champions League. ”I have prepared a lifetime,” he said. And three days later ended his magical week playing the whole game against Almeria and scoring the tying goal to two.

“It was a very special week, Almería shame that tied at the end. The team has been very good and we will follow up. We are a very competitive team and everyone is able to play, but we must learn to secure the win and this is achieved based games, “said the midfielder, born on January 26, 1991 in Barcelona.

The medium is more sure of his chances after playing the second half of last season at Vitesse, the Dutch Eredivisie (played 15 games as a starter with the `Chapi ¿Ferrer on the bench). ”I returned from Holland with confidence. Also gained a lot of competitiveness in a demanding category as Dutch First Division. It was one of the best times of my life as a footballer, which is short yet, “said Marti Riverola.

Indeed, his brief stage in Arnhem not made him forget the studies of Business Administration underway in the IQS and approved three subjects although unable to attend class.

MADNESS IN THE FIRST TRAINING SESSION IN YOKOHAMA

After being received in the early morning at Narita Airport, outside Tokyo, for about a hundred enthusiastic fans Nipponese with the colors of the team, Barca took the morning train to train and attend two official FIFA commitments. 

Early in the 27 players and the coach, Josep Guardiola, attended the event photo session and a technical talk Instructor FIFA referees, Steve Bennett, with whom they talked and discussed videos on the rules of the tournament . 

At noon, Barcelona went to training camp Yokohama Marinos local team, in which he waited nearly a hundred international media and many fans who were at the gates, and onlookers who peered out from the surrounding buildings. 

Guardiola scheduled a very gentle workout for about an hour in which the players performed balloon stretching, rounds, races and a talk with the coaching staff in a warm and sunny winter morning. 

The training served to light the players begin their acclimatization to the time change in Japan (eight hours ahead of Spain) and to recover physically from the long journey and the meeting demanding that played on Saturday against Real Madrid. 

The Training Center Yokohama Marinos, which already has a store of FC Barcelona, ​​Barca offered to issue a quarter hour of training open to media, while the rest of the exercises were performed at door closed. 

Today is the first step in the preparation of the FC Barcelona play in Japan before, on Thursday, one of the Club World Cup semi-final against Qatar’s Al Sadd, who yesterday broke Tunisian Esperance in the quarter-finals 2-1