It has been reported that former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson rates Chelsea’s deal for Fernando Torres among the worst ever transfers in the game.
The likes of the £30m Dimitar Berbatov, the £24m Juan Sebastian Veron and the £12m Louis Saha are all regularly summed up as his failures, says Sir Alex.
But the Red Devils great believes not even his biggest of transfer foul-ups come close to that of some of the money wasted by other Premier League big-boys.
In a section called ‘Frugality’, Ferguson revealed: “Even [my] very worst are not in the same postal code as some of the biggest blunders in the Premier League, such as the £50m that Chelsea impulsively paid for Fernando Torres.”