Chelsea Transfers: 10 Players Who Could Be Sold By Jose Mourinho This Summer

6. Fernando Torres

Chelsea fans must be hoping this is finally the year when patience with the hopeless Spanish 'striker' - term used loosely - runs out. Having arrived for an eye-watering £50m when already in terrible form for Liverpool, Torres never for a moment looked like justifying a fee even one tenth that size. His struggles to find the back of the net following his arrival became an ongoing joke, with David Luiz scoring twice as many during their first six months at the club, and his 11 goals in 50 appearances in his subsequent season was a striking rate verging on the tragic considering his reputation. He did bag a respectable 22 in his third year, but only 8 of those were in the league and a significant percentage of the rest were against mediocre opposition in the Europa League. He's picked up a reputation for scoring non-essential goals and while he has intermittently shown signs of what is capable of against sides willing to give him plenty of room, it has long been apparent that his pace, first touch and confidence have taken a massive hit since his Liverpool heydey. It could be suggested that Torres' failures have had consequences beyond a lack of goalscoring on the pitch: fans were severly antagonised when the much-loathed Rafa Benitez (who had insulted Chelsea fans during his tenure at Liverpool) was seemingly hired with the sole remit of bringing the best out of his former charge, and even Jose Mourinho seemed convinced he could be the one to get Torres back on track at the beginning of the season, a possible reason for the loan departure of Romelu Lukaku. Unfortunately, it won't be easy to offload the Spaniard. Even taking his woeful form into account and the fact Chelsea will almost certainly want to recoup a reasonable percentage of that original £50m outlay, Torres is on £175k a week, a figure few clubs will be able to afford unless he takes a massive pay-cut, and even then it's questionable how many clubs of that stature would actually want him. Sigh.