[Locke Lamora]

Liverpool could be forced to sell Fernando Torres – alerting Milan and Juventus – but the Rossoneri are already targeting Ruud van Nistelrooy.

The Anfield Road in-fighting between owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks is just one of their problems, as ‘The Times’ claims there is a serious financial short-fall.

“Liverpool entered into an 18-month loan agreement with interest of 9 per cent - £2.8 million a year - with a letter of credit to pay back the £31.5 million at the end of the period,” says the newspaper.

”Should Liverpool be unable to pay back or refinance the loan, banks could force the sale of Torres and Ryan Babel, who was also included in the smaller refinancing package.”

If hitman Torres becomes available for around £27.5m, he will be a prime target for both Juventus and Milan, who are on the lookout for a striker.

Rossoneri President Silvio Berlusconi has already stated his club will sign Ronaldinho, Andriy Shevchenko “plus an old-style centre-forward.”

Up until now it was thought to be Chelsea’s Didier Drogba, but new reports around Europe today suggest it is Real Madrid’s van Nistelrooy.

He is relatively cheap compared to Drogba and Real would be happy to release him because they are looking to sign the Ivory Coast international as a replacement.

Milan and Juve are also said to be at loggerheads over another Premier League player, as the San Siro giants assumed they had a deal for out of contract Mathieu Flamini.

They have offered the midfielder a five-year contract worth £3.5m per season, but Juve director of sport Alessio Secco has reportedly flown out to England to table a bid of his own and, while he’s there, seek news on the Liverpool situation.




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[Rossoneri7]

This is an example of poor management, now they need to reach the final. They will need the money,

[I_Rossoneri]

This is an example of poor management, now they need to reach the final. They will need the money,

Knowing how lucky they are they probably will win the CL then! (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

If they do have to sell him, does anyone actually believe we will stump up £27.5m for just one(phenomenal (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) ) player? Because I don't. IMO if he did leave then I could see him go to Manu.

[Rossoneri7]

Knowing how lucky they are they probably will win the CL then! (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

If they do have to sell him, does anyone actually believe we will stump up £27.5m for just one(phenomenal (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) ) player? Because I don't. IMO if he did leave then I could see him go to Manu.

Well, Rafa is a master tactician, and between him and Grant, I can only see Rafa reaching the final. Then again, I want United to reach the final, then I want to see CR cry in front of the whole world (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)



Anyways, if they do sell him ... I doubt Milan will change it's perspective (of course we here are just speculating and shooting away at random, but .. ) considering how confident Don Ceseare was, I can all but be confident that there are certain players the management are looking at and it is within due time that the names will appear. We can all but be convinced that three of them are R10, S7, and Zambrotta. The rest, namely two, probably would be a pure striker and a center back.

p.s. who knows, maybe that pure striker would be Torres, but I doubt it, they would sell Vorinin and co. before they sell one of their best strikers in the past 5 years.