Spike

I agree, Costa should go and Chelsea got 100% what they payed for. No more, no less.Torres was on another level of horrible and people would do well to remember that. Costa is very emotional, I imagine he was better at Madrid because he was happier in Madrid. He probably misses Spanish/Latin culture dearly and can't stand not having an afternoon siesta followed by a midnight fiesta.

You mean that guy that twisted everyone into a prolapse for nearly five years? Yeah, this is nothing close to Torres.

I'll use the word however I wish to. The fact remains he is a streaky player and every single one of you was up his arse till a few months ago (OMG we have a proper striker post-Torres coital glow). He maybe not what you want in a centre-forward but it is a cold hard fact that over the last five years he has delivered goals to his team, that and his aggression are the only assets he has every had. I think it was everyone else that expected something different from Costa, not me; the writing was on the wall. An overly-emotional petulant centre-forward capable of goals and red cards. Nobody can act surprised or complain when Chelsea get exactly the player they bought.

They are very different players. You should have never expected that from Costa; you have to rate the player based on their individual styles. We can only compare what they have in common and it is true they were both streaky goal scorers but it is also true that Drogba was an asset outside of goals.

This is just semantics. Remember I did call his reliability questionable; which is equable to 'streaky' no? Drogba was also very streaky, you cannot forget.

Great striker. Questionable reliability; he should only be sold when replaced. Not vice-versa.

I think all Chelsea fans were blinded. It's almost like having the curtains opened for the first time. This is the guy that raked Karanka's eye for no reason!

I wasn't being serious choo

I was being facetious you clown. If you couldn't tell from 'He was obviously praising his physical conditioning as gorillas are one of nature's finest specimens.' then don't read the Onion, it might hurt you.

I thought he tried to take his eye out with the cigar?

What a stupid story anyway. It's only offensive because Barkley is 1/4 black and you would never know looking at him, the whole outrage is on the basis that the author knew Barkley was biracial. I sure as hell didn't know. Besides it's a fucking stupid 'racist' remark anyway, it's somehow less offensive when I call Gareth Bale a monkey when he bloody well looks like one. On another note he calls him a gorilla on his intelligence (anybody can fucking stupid) not his appearance (race). Stupid, stupid, stupid.

He was obviously praising his physical conditioning as gorillas are one of nature's finest specimens.

Looks like he is fond of Russel Crowe..

Spanish fans don't boo, mate. They whistle.

Neither did Azpilicueta and Moses.

As if that has ever meant anything.

'Attacking wing back' with a career total of zero goals and one assist.

No.

We look back on the 90s for being baggy and sometimes a little too flamboyantly designed. We will remember the late 00s and early 10s as simply being overdesigned and messy. \

Could have flopped. No way to say for sure how he would have played.

I wish kits never changed (except for minor things like badges and collars)

It's only been five bloody years since he moved to London. It'd take less than a few hours for him to get home as well. Europeans don't understand living far from home.

Another great kit, maybe a little too French for some.