{"id":4494,"date":"2014-07-21T17:10:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T17:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2014-07-21T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T17:10:34","slug":"chelsea-willing-to-sell-torres-for-13m-after-atletico-steps-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/chelsea-willing-to-sell-torres-for-13m-after-atletico-steps-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Willing to Sell Torres for \u00a313m after Atletico Steps In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are planning to sell Spanish striker Fernando Torres this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Reports claim that the Blues are willing let the 30-year-old forward leave Stamford Bridge, and that Torres&#8217; former club Atletico Madrid are keen to re-sign the striker.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico&#8217;s chief executive Miguel Angel Gil Marin was in London last weekend discussing a possible deal for the Blues hit-man.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico are set to offer Chelsea \u00a313m for Torres, and the Blues are willing to accept the cut-price fee.<\/p>\n<p>Torres began his career with Atletico and scored 91 goals in 244 appearances for the La Liga champions before leaving the Vincente Calderon in 2007 to join Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtletico are set to offer Chelsea \u00a313m for Torres, and according to Mundo Deportivo the Blues are willing to accept the cut-price fee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish international spent four years at Anfield, scoring 65 goals in 102 appearances for the Reds, before joining Chelsea in 2011 for \u00a350m.<\/p>\n<p>Since moving to Stamford Bridge the Spaniard has failed to regain the sensational form he had at Liverpool which made him a fan favourite at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>In 174 appearances for the Blues, the former Atletico star has only managed to score 45 goals for Jose Mourinho&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are planning to sell Spanish striker Fernando Torres this summer. Reports claim that the Blues are willing let the 30-year-old forward leave Stamford Bridge, and that Torres&#8217; former club Atletico Madrid are keen to re-sign the striker. Atletico&#8217;s chief executive Miguel Angel Gil Marin was in London last weekend discussing a possible deal for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,81],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}