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AC Milan To Sign Fernando Torres From Chelsea On Permanent Deal

ByMike Dyce|

Chelsea striker Fernando Torres is headed out of the club to return to AC Milan during the January transfer window.

When jose Mourinho came to Chelsea FC last season he wasn’t thrilled with their selection of strikers and it looks like one of them is headed out the door permanently. Fernando Torres is set to stay with AC Milan in Italy’s Serie A on a permanent deal during the January transfer window.

It isn’t necessarily because AC Milan want to keep him though. AC Milan want to loan him to Atletico Madrid for Italy international Alessio Cerci, but since Torres has spent the past four months on loan from Chelsea to AC Milan, they needed to bring him in on a permanent deal to loan him out.

“He is going to AC Milan – it will be announced on the 5 January. But around that time it will also be announced that he will be going on loan to Atletico, for perhaps 18 months, that’s what I’m hearing,” Sky Sports’ Spanish football expert Guillem Balague said.

“The reason why everything is being done this way is that they (Atletico) did not have the money to get Torres transfered but they will have him on loan.

“AC Milan will be happy to have Cerci on loan. So what is eventually going to be is a swap of loan deals. Cerci is going to go Milan, and Torres is going to go to Atletico.

“Torres is a legend there – he was at Atletico for seven seasons, five of them as captain of the team. When he left he said ‘I will come back’. For him I think it will help him rediscover his love of football.”

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