Torres may be sold to Chelsea!

According to a sensational report in today's News of the World, Chelsea are putting together a shock £50 million bid for Liverpool ace Fernando Torres.

New Blues boss Carlo Ancelotti has reportedly made the Spanish striking sensation a top transfer priority, and the powers that be at Stamford Bridge are said to be secretly confident that they can pull off what would be an absolutely stunning coup as a result of Liverpool's well-documented financial problems.

Kop Holdings, the company set up by Tom Hicks and George Gillett to run Liverpool, reportedly lost £42.6m last year, and there are more than just murmurs that the under-fire American owners are not in a position to turn down any deals that make good financial sense.

Fiscally speaking, the sale of Torres for £50m would be a great bit of business, considering he was recruited from Atletico Madrid for around £20m just in 2007.

The News of the World goes on to suggest that Chelsea are ready to go all out to recreate Spain's dream forward tandem of Torres and David Villa at Stamford Bridge, the latter of whom the west London side reportedly submitted a £35m offer to Valencia for last week.