Chelsea Sepakat Lego Torres ke AC Milan
Torres Has Agreed a Two-year Loan Deal with AC Milan
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
London (B2B) - Chelsea tengah membidik pemain AS Roma Mattia Destro sebagai langkah memperkuat lini depan The Blues menyusul rencana kepindahan Fernando Torres ke AC Milan.
Torres tengah menghitung hari di markas Stamford Bridge. Ia segera berlabuh ke AC Milan. Klub papan atas Serie A itu telah menyepakati banderol seharga 10 juta pound untuk memboyong pemain berusia 30 tahun itu.
Perwakilan Torres yang tengah berada di Inggris telah menjalin pembicaraan dengan para pejabat Chelsea mengenai kesepakatan soal kepindahan pemain asal Spanyol itu ke AC Milan, seperti dilansir Telegraph.
Manajer Chelsea Jose Mourinho menargetkan untuk menggaet Destro sebagai pengganti Torres.
Destro akan menjadi striker ketiga setelah Diego Costa dan Didier Drogba. Ini dapat dipahami berkaitan dengan pembicaraan antara Chelsea dan AS Roma soal masa depan Destro.
Dalam 172 kali membela Chelsea, capaian gol yang dicetak Torres kurang menggembirakan, karena hanya mengemas 46 gol.
Jika dirata-rata, Torres menerima 1,6 juta pound per gol, dan 436 ribu pound per satu laga. Hampir separuh dari jumlah laga itu (55 pertandingan), Torres justru berada di bangku cadangan.
London - Chelsea will attempt to thrash out the departure of £50 million flop Fernando Torres on Friday, but face a race against time to replace him with Roma forward Mattia Destro.
The representatives of Torres are in England to speak with Chelsea officials about the terms of the Spaniard’s exit to AC Milan.
Chelsea are hoping to negotiate a permanent deal for Torres, rather than a loan, that will finally free them of his £175,000-a-week wages for good. But Torres, who is interested in moving to Milan, and his representatives believe the striker is entitled to a severance payment because he has two years remaining on his contract.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has already targeted Destro to replace Torres as the club’s third-choice striker behind Diego Costa and Didier Drogba. It is understood that there has already been a meeting between Chelsea and Roma over Destro. But the Italian club are under no pressure to sell after securing £24 million from Bayern Munich for central defender Medhi Benatia.
Roma would also want a replacement lined up before agreeing to let £19 million-rated Destro go so late in the transfer window. The 23-year-old’s wages would not be a problem for Chelsea, as he earns around £25,000 a week in Italy.
Other than Destro, Chelsea could look at Porto’s Jackson Martinez or even Queens Park Rangers striker Loic Remy.
