Torres And Mo Money

[Bender]

Fernando Torres' scoring run for Liverpool is hurting the club's bank balance!

The News of the World says the struggling Kop giants must pay Atletico Madrid an extra £150,000 for every 15 goals the Spanish striker gets.

His former club Atletico Madrid negotiated the unique clause in his contract on top of the £21million fee when he moved to Merseyside last summer.

Torres, 23, has already grabbed 18 goals in all competitions to trigger one bonus payment to Atletico.

Torres said: "I'm keeping everyone happy! Liverpool get the goals and Atletico get the money.

"I honestly did not think I would score as many goals as I have so soon. But things have gone well for me.

"Now I just want them to go better for the team in general so we can win the league or a cup to reward everyone's hard work."

[The_weatherman]

If he gets 30 goals I think it's worth 300.000 to be fair.

[AFII]

I hope that he scores a lot of goals and cost us a lot of money.

[alunevans]

If only the players were paid their wages in a similar fashion. We'd have saved a fortune recently.

[andyinswinton]

If only the players were paid their wages in a similar fashion. We'd have saved a fortune recently.

And if the fans were charged according to how the players are doing, we would have been due a refund recently!

[NICKZS]

If only the players were paid their wages in a similar fashion. We'd have saved a fortune recently.

Kuyt would have had to get a crisis loan by now

[Exiled_red]

I think that's fair enough to be honest

[Craig_H]

Are these payments just ongoing forever? Surely there has to be a cut-off point?

[James]

Are these payments just ongoing forever? Surely there has to be a cut-off point?

When we go bankrupt.

[Kev_81]

When we go bankrupt.

[shanks69]

When we go bankrupt.

so we won't be paying them for much longer then.

[keniget]

Are these payments just ongoing forever? Surely there has to be a cut-off point?

It's not the end of the world... say he ends up scoring 300 goals for us in his career - that'd only add 3M to his fee. Heh, not bad value for money, eh?

[carlton]

I wonder what he gets for every 15 scored? He must have incentives built into his contract as well?

[Joe King]

Goals will win games. Games will win cups. Cups will make money.

Simple analogy

[tommyg]

Goals will win games. Games will win cups. Cups will make money.

Simple analogy

Correct.