TORRES FREE
Chelsea write off £50m as he moves to Milan
CHELSEA last night wrote off the £50million they spent on Fernando Torres by letting him join AC Milan for the next two years.
The Spanish striker for whom Roman Abramovich smashed the British transfer record agreed a deal to move to Italy under which Chelsea won’t receive any fee.
Milan will take over the £175,000-a-week contract which Torres, now 30, signed when he moved from Liverpool on deadline day in January 2011.
And the final exit from Stamford Bridge of a player who became a shadow of the striker who helped win the 2010 World Cup meant each of his 20 Premier League goals have cost Abramovich £2.5m.
Torres will be in Milan today to take a medical before completing the formalities of an agreement under which he writes off any money still owed to him by the London club, while Milan don’t have to pay any compensation to his club.
Chelsea last night confirmed that the complicated deal will be officially recorded as a loan, but it means Torres, who would have become a free agent in 2016, will not play for the club again.
Boss Jose Mourinho has insisted all summer that he didn’t want to lose the striker whose workrate has always made him a popular player in the