By JOHN DRAYTON
Atletico Madrid are weighing up a move for to re-sign Fernando Torres from Chelsea and bring to an end his Stamford Bridge hell, according to reports.
The Madrid club are looking to take their former striker on a season-long loan deal in the summer.
And according to the Sunday Express a move is a possibility as Torres has always maintained that that Atletico ‘will always be my club’.
‘Atletico love Fernando and Fernando loves Atletico,’ one Spanish source told the Sunday Express.
‘He might have to take less wages to make it happen, but it would be a match made in heaven if it does.’
Spearking in August, Torres said: ‘I am not hiding who I am, which team I support and to which club I owe more than any other, and I hope … it will continue like that.’
Torres, who came through Atletico’s academy and scored 75 goals for them at a remarkable rate of almost one every two games.
That is in stark contrast to the Chelsea fans who heaped more misery on the out-of-sorts Spaniard last week when they brutally booed him after the Capital One Cup defeat at home to Swansea.
Atletico are not the only club interested in signing Torres, two former Chelsea managers are keen on the striker, Claudio Ranieri is keen to take him to Monaco, providing they get promoted this season, and Carlo Ancelotti is also set to try to lure Torres to Paris St Germain in the summer.
And Juventus and the Turkish giants, Besiktas, are also understood to be monitoring how this season pans out for him at Stamford Bridge.
