There was wide speculation that Fernando Torres was only asking to leave Liverpool over concerns that the squad was not being strengthened, and that the signing of Luis Suarez from Ajax would appease him. Hours after the Suarez deal was made official, the grumblings that Torres wants to leave Merseyside behind for Chelsea FC have not halted, but instead intensified. Speculation is ripe that Torres is still keen to join Chelsea, and that Chelsea are willing to up their bid.
Liverpool FC, Fernando Torres Transfer: Chelsea Up Bid To £40 Million Plus Daniel Sturridge
Reports are coming in that Daniel Sturridge + £40m is Chelsea’s new offer, as Graham MacAree at We Ain’t Got No History discusses:
Just a speculative tweet with information garnered from the Times, but they've been on this story the whole way through, and I thought it was pretty interesting. Apparently, Chelsea, rebuffed at the first attempt in their bid to pry Fernando Torres away from Liverpool, are fully prepared to step the offer up a notch. If they're preparing a £40M plus Daniel Sturridge bid, as Liverpool writer Jim Boardman has suggested, they're getting very serious about meeting Liverpool's price.
That writer, Jim Boardman, sent out the following tweet:
Times: #CFC prepared to offer £40 million in cash plus Daniel Sturridge for Fernando Torres. #LFC
Jim Boardman
JimBoardman
So, is this concrete stuff? Absolutely not. But there’s growing speculation from very knowledgeable and informed people that Liverpool face a very real fight to keep Fernando Torres, and that their hands may be tied.
In my opinion, Liverpool would be nuts not to accept that offer, if it is indeed real. Torres has been struggling lately, both with form and injuries, and he’s not exactly a young player anymore. If the eventual sum of all of their transfer dealings was Luis Suarez, Daniel Sturridge, and £20m for Fernando Torres, it’s downright highway robbery.
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