Chelsea FC Breaking News: Fernando Torres Could Quit Team: Normally speaking, when a player wins the biggest prize in European club soccer, the Champions League, he is one of the happiest campers in the world. Instead, Fernando Torres is incredibly upset at the way that he has been handled this year by the Blues, and he reportedly wants to leave Stamford Bridge.
This has already been as hectic of a year as could be for Chelsea. The team hired the manager that was supposed to take it to the next level in the form of Andre Villas-Boas, but he was sacked about halfway through what was turning out to be a disappointing campaign. The Blues finished just sixth in the table, and they were largely out of contention for a spot in European soccer next year for the entire campaign.
The new skipper of the club, Roberto Di Matteo didn’t fare all that much better domestically, though at least Chelsea did finish just one point back of the Top 5 at the end of the 2012 Premier League season. However, where he really made the difference was in the Champions League, where anything can, and quite often does happen.
Chelsea literally did what was supposed to be the impossible this year. The team was able to knock of Barcelona in a home-and-home set just to get into the finale, and then, on German soil in a de facto road game, the Blues took care of Bayern Munich on their home pitch in penalties to claim the league title and to ensure that they will be in European competition once again next year.
Still, the turmoil sits. Di Matteo still doesn’t have a vote of confidence that he is going to be back as the manager of the team next year, while Didier Drogba needs a new contract to stay at Stamford Bridge as well.
Torres was the ultimate surprised and the coup de grace in a tumultuous season. The Spaniard was quoted as saying that it was a “big surprise” to be left out of the starting XI in Munich on Saturday, and it was the second time this year that he was kept out of a finale, being left unused in the FA Cup Final against Liverpool as well. Torres did come on in the Champions League Final for the last seven minutes of regulation and extra time. He was not selected for any of the penalty kicks.
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The truth of the matter is that Torres was brought to Chelsea to be the club’s top striker. Instead, he often found himself on the bench, and he only ended up logging a total of six goals for the campaign. Torres started in 20 games and came on as a sub in a dozen others. It was the worst scoring output of the career of the Spaniard, even worse than the nine goals that he scored for an offensive-crowded Liverpool team in his final year at Anfield.
The next question is what the Blues could possibly do with their man that they just sunk 50 million Euros into last year. Surely, if Torres comes up on the market, the two massive Spanish sides, Barcelona and Real Madrid would love to get involved in the bidding, but the problem is that Torres isn’t guaranteed a starting spot on a regular basis on either of those squads. Instead, a Torres transfer might have to come to a team like a PSG, that has been willing to spend money but hasn’t quite gotten the right group of strikers together yet. Other candidates in England could include Arsenal and Tottenham, though we think that a transfer to one of the middling teams might be more suitable for Torres.
