Fernando Torres is digging his heels in at Chelsea and the Stamford Bridge club will have to pay £16million for him to leave.

The £50m flop has attracted interest from the likes of Roma, but any buying club will struggle to pay Torres' £150,000-a-week wages.

The Spanish striker therefore wants Chelsea to pay up the two years remaining on his deal - totalling around £16m - if he is to leave the club.

VIDEO Scroll down to watch Fernando Torres take on the ice bucket challenge

In or out? Fernando Torres is digging his heels in at Chelsea and it will cost £16million for him to get gone

Cough it up: Chelsea would have to pay £16m if he is to join Roma from the Premier League outfit

Freezing: Torres takes on the Ice Bucket Challenge during a break in Ibiza

Good cause: The striker was left out of Jose Mourinho's squad for the 2-0 win against Leicester on Saturday

FERNANDO TORRES FACT FILE BORN: Spain, March 20 1984 (age 30) 2001-2007: Atletico Madrid (214 app, 82 gls) 2007-2011: Liverpool (102, 65) 2011-2014: Chelsea (110-20) 2003-NOW: Spain (110, 38) HONOURS: Atletico Madrid: Segunda Division Chelsea: FA Cup, Champions League, Europa League Spain: European Football Championship (2), World Cup Advertisement

There is frustration from both parties around Torres' future - Chelsea at Torres' refusal to see any potential move through and the striker at his lack of first-team opportunities.

The striker, who posted a video of himself undertaking the Ice Bucket Challenge in Ibiza to Instagram on Monday, didn't make the bench for Jose Mourinho's side's 2-0 win over Leicester on Saturday, with new signing Diego Costa and returning Blues icon Didier Drogba both preferred.

Despite leaving Torres out of the win, Mourinho insisted he needs three strikers in his squad: ‘I want three strikers in the team. Sometimes I want to play with two and have one on the bench. At other times, someone will be suspended, another will be injured.

'Someone will be needed as a third striker. I can’t do a season without a third striker. Our squad was made carefully the top structure of my club to give me what I want.

‘I believe he will remain. I want him. He will play. He will score goals. He will be very useful for us. He is a fantastic guy, fantastic professional, so no problem.

'I told the players yesterday that at this moment we are playing one match a week and they feel: “Oh, I’m playing, I’m not playing. I’m first option, I’m second, I’m third.”

'But this is over next week. After that we have Capital One cup and Champions League and three matches a week. Everything is much easier for them then because all of them will be playing.

‘The reason he wasn’t on the bench today was that I decided to have a balanced bench with one defender, one full back, one defence midfielder, one attacking midfielder on winger and one striker. Sometimes I can have two strikers on the bench sometimes I can’t.’

Is the exit that way? Torres looks ready to leave Chelsea after his initial £50million move from Liverpool