In the grand scheme of Jose Mourinho's achievements in world football, if he manages to convince anyone to part with any money at all - whether that's in terms of a transfer fee or a slither of his unjustly gigantic wages - for Fernando Torres, it would immediately be deemed the greatest moment of his starry career to date. That is the objective that faces the Portuguese manager, as his club's transfer policy of buying as many emerging foreign stars as possible - without intention to ever play them in some cases - and the latest decision to bring Didier Drogba back to the club means that the first-team squad has one too many foreign players to comply with the Premier League and Champions League rules relating to the home-grown quota. Obviously, clubs haven't yet found a colourful loophole to get round the fact that they can only have 17 foreign players over the age of 21 in their official 25-man squads and Chelsea currently have 18 considered viable first team options - as well as Cesc Fabregas who counts as home grown and Romelu Lukaku who is still somehow only 21 until May. That means Mourinho needs to convince someone - anyone - to take Torres off his hands, having already got rid of Demba Ba to make way for Diego Costa, and shipped out Samuel Eto'o to replace him like for like with fan favourite Drogba. Quite whether he can manage that remains to be seen, especially as Chelsea are somehow under the impression that a £20m asking price is somehow reflective of the player's quality. Frankly, they should release him and just accept they made a colossal error. The alternative - rather unthinkably for some - is to sell Petr Cech to Paris St Germain, just days after the goalkeeper said he wanted to stay and fight for his place with returning talent Thibaut Courtois and Mark "making up the numbers" Schwarzer. PSG are apparently looking to make a £10m bid for the 32-year-old Czech, and with the foreign contingent issue hanging over him, and the fact that Courtois will almost certainly be returning to Chelsea with the promise of first-team football ringing in his ears, Mourinho's hands might be forced. Perhaps Mourinho should get on the phone to Big Sam down at West Ham, who finds himself lumbered with another expensive flop who he can't get any on-field impact from in Any Carroll, and attempt to give this whole saga of the two Liverpool strikers a nice poetic cyclical finish. After all, he likes over-paying for bad strikers, so he might well be the man to convince that there's something left in the Spaniard's tank, and it would suit Mourinho's agenda to shift him off the books. Do you think Mourinho will ever manage to sell Fernando Torres? Then you're probably unstable, but share your thoughts in the comments thread below.
