Chelsea have dismissed reports that they are ready to sell Fernando Torres for £20million in January, by branding the claims as "nonsense."
The Daily Mail claimed on Wednesday morning that Chelsea were prepared to give up on the Spaniard just a year after they bought him from Liverpool for £50million.
But Chelsea have responded by telling the Daily Telegraph: "The story is nonsense. Fernando Torres remains part of our long term plans."
Torres has scored four goals for Chelsea this season but has not started a Premier League game since October.
Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas has certainly made all the right noises about believing in his big-money striker.
"In a career or a person's life, you have better moments and worse moments," he said last month.
"At the moment, Fernando's best moments in terms of goalscoring were the Liverpool days. That does not mean those days won't arrive in this club, and that does not mean that, at the moment, he is not performing for the team, because he is.
"Isolate the last four months with the goals he's scored [four in seven games in all competitions] and it isn't bad. A striker is not just there to put the ball in the back of the net. He's there to perform and create."
