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Fernando Torres for the "Chelsea" for £ 50 million
addition yacht Roman Abramovich has another passion, which he is willing to spend money without stint - the football club "Chelsea". Today, he surprised the sports world record acquisition: Abramovich paid the club "Liverpool" 50 million pounds for the Spanish national team striker Fernando Torres. This became the most expensive transfer in the history of the English Premier League. With the Spaniard signed a contract for five and a half years. Under its terms, the salary of 26-year-old striker in "Chelsea" of £ 175 thousand. Per week. Fernando Torres became the fourth in the list of the most expensive players in the world - after Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and [ censorship i>]. "The purchase of Fernando Torres - it is confirmation that we continue to set ourselves the highest goals. I think all the fans of "Chelsea" inspired by this news, "- he said in the joys of club chairman Bruce Buck. However, not all the club's fans were jubilant about the expensive acquisition. Despite the glorious biography Torres this season in the "Liverpool" his game was far from perfect. Not the fact that a change of club vouchsafe him to play with great enthusiasm. Transfer the risk of becoming the object of an investigation by UEFA. The fact that under the new rules clubs have no right to spend more than they earn. If the "Chelsea" will be convicted of violating this prohibition, he faces serious sanctions to the exclusion of all UEFA club competition.