Tidigare under dagen fick Liverpools fans en trevlig nyhet när klubben offentliggjorde att man är överens med Ajax om en övergångssumma för Luis Suarez. Glädjen kan dock bli kortvarig, om man ska tro på de engelska tidningsuppgifter som publicerats under kvällen.

Enligt normalt sett pålitliga journalister på både The Times och The Telegraph vill har Fernando Torres informerat Liverpool om att han vill lämna klubben.

Tony Evans, som är ansvarig för fotbollssektionen på The Times, klargör de uppgifter som har läckt till media: “I think it’s going to be a really disappointing time for Liverpool supporters and I think very soon the news will break all over the place that Fernando Torres intends to leave Liverpool and it will happen very, very soon,” sa Evans till TalkSPORT.

På frågan om Torres kommer att lämna redan i detta januarifönster svarade Evans: “I believe so, we are led to believe by Tony Barrett, who is by far the best informed Liverpool writer in the country, that Fernando Torres has told the club that he wants to leave and that puts the club in a position where they have to do a deal with Chelsea.

“I don’t think it’s an official transfer request, he’s just told the club that he wants to leave, I don’t think it’s been done in writing, I don’t think it’s gone that far but it’s certainly gone far enough that it’s almost irreparable.

“I think the relationship has broken down really fast between Torres and the club, the reality is Fernando Torres, over the past three years, has been promised the earth by officials of Liverpool and nothings been delivered. This problem has been inherited by the new owners and I think Torres has just come to the end of his tether.

“I think that’s the situation tonight, we’ll see that news spread and we will see, going into tomorrow, some sort of deal being done with Chelsea.

“Kenny [Dalglish] can work miracles, and has done in the past on many occasions, lets hope he can now for Liverpool football club’s sake. I have to say I doubt [he can] at this stage [he can]. I think the die is cast and I think Torres will be a Chelsea player by the end of this window.”

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Tidigare under dagen deklarerade Liverpool att Torres inte är till salu, men man har inte kommenterat de färska ryktena om att spanjoren vill lämna klubben.

The Times menar att Chelseas senaste bud på Torres ligger på £40 miljoner + Daniel Sturridge.

Mer tidningsuppgifter kommer säkerligen senare under kvällen.