Transfer Rumours 2013/14

But you rarely find these players that can easily score 15 goals a season for cheap. Sure, Torres only needs 13 goals to get to 20 but we are coming into the 21st game and he has 7 goals. So if it keeps like this, he should have around 14. Of course it doesn't work like but I can't see him scoring 13 goals in 17 games, because of the fact that if he does manage to score one goal, he usually fails to score another.

But you rarely find these players that can easily score 15 goals a season for cheap. Sure, Torres only needs 13 goals to get to 20 but we are coming into the 21st game and he has 7 goals. So if it keeps like this, he should have around 14. Of course it doesn't work like but I can't see him scoring 13 goals in 17 games, because of the fact that if he does manage to score one goal, he usually fails to score another.

Chelsea have only played 19 league games.

I know you don't like him but at least beat him with facts.

You find more strikers in the world who kick their 10-15 a season than those who get 30+ regularly, I assure you. Any striker who has consistently kicked 30+ a season is going to cost you ridiculous amounts of money, provided their not already at a top club as it is. Signing two strikers who can get you 10-15 goals a season to work with Torres is going to be both cheaper and also less riskier.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love either a Falcao or Cavani at Chelsea, both are top strikers. But I'd also be just as happy to see the club keep Torres and add some genuine competitive depth, which is lacking. Chelsea's track record on buying expensive strikers isn't good, so it makes just as much sense get two good players for the price of one superstar.

Chelsea were spoiled to have a player like Drogba, who was near on the complete striker.

Chelsea have only played 19 league games.

I know you don't like him but at least beat him with facts.

Arsenal have offered £10m for Atletico Madrid striker Adrian Lopez. This fails to meet the £14.7m release clause in the 24-year-old's contract though.

Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur will fight it out for the signature of Crystal Palace's £10m-rated forward Wilfried Zaha, 20.

Arsenal are expected to sound out Southampton over their 17-year-old defender Luke Shaw, with manager Arsene Wenger having identified the left-back as one of his transfer priorities for 2013.

I'd have Lampard at United, especially as experience if Scholes and/or Giggs are leaving at the end of the season.

Will Lampard be that daft?

Why would moving to utd be daft?

We're hardly arch rivals, and I'm sure he'd stay at Chelsea if they were prepared to give him a new contract. It wouldn't be as if he's turning down Chelsea to come to us, ala Van Persie.

Can't see it happening anyway.

We're hardly arch rivals, and I'm sure he'd stay at Chelsea if they were prepared to give him a new contract. It wouldn't be as if he's turning down Chelsea to come to us, ala Van Persie.

Can't see it happening anyway.

. Can you imagine if next season United and Chelsea were neck and neck in the title race, and Lampard hit a rich vein of form that helped United to the title? I can't imagine Chelsea fans being so forgiving them. He's played for them for almost his entire career so I'm sure he'll be very wary not to damage his reputation with the fans.

He is already on 6 goals this season and probably on the way to a ninth consecutive season with over ten goals in the league.

This is very different from the RVP situation. He was offered a new contract by Arsenal, which he refused

But if you get two strikers that can get 10-15, they wouldn't want to be played as a substitute... And we can't go with a 3 striker formation not with the players we have now and the players that we have. Can you really drop two of Mata, Oscar or Hazard? Not really. And last year proved that Torres can't handle competition. Now he has no competition, he doesn't have to play at his best because he is our only striker. But he didn't start very well and I don't believe that if we bring Ba now and when Lukaku comes back next season, that Torres will be able to do much.

Sadly, he just isn't the player we need. I admitted it a long time ago and I personally think we should have got rid of him last year. He was destroyed in 2010 and sadly he will never be back. Again, it was always hard for me to like Torres, just like it is hard for me to like Benitez. Both came from Liverpool and both had shit starts to their Chelsea career (Rafa got the hang of it faster). I will never feel like I am 100% behind Torres but he has to prove himself first. If he scores over 15, 20 goals, let him stay, maybe he will be able to keep that form... Sadly, I can't see it happening and I have a feeling that if Lampard doesn't leave in January, Torres, yet again, will score less goals than him in the league.