🇪🇸 Diego Costa

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10 hours ago, Tomo said:

Problem is, who can we get on Costa's level or close?

Aguero, Suarez and Lewa is no chance, Auba wants Spain, possibly Morata or if we push it Laccazette but beyond that I cant think of anyone who we could realostcially get.

Cavani? Doesn't seem like he'll stay at PSG for much longer.

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28 minutes ago, Jason said:

Cavani? Doesn't seem like he'll stay at PSG for much longer.

Costa is honestly the better player. 

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8 minutes ago, The Skipper said:

Costa is honestly the better player. 

Considering all the others strikers - such as the ones mentioned by Tomo above - aren't available, can you name a better option though? It's not like Cavani is terrible and he still has a good goal scoring record.

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Indeed, there aren't many better options. So why not stick with him? He has killer instinct, he just needs to be right mentally and he's top class. 

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Costa is still a very good striker, but i would love, love, love to see Lewandowski in a Chelsea shirt. Gundogan, Reus or Dybala (if Hazard leaves) and Lewandowski in the summer. C'mon Roman, get negotiating I jest of course, but wouldn't this be fantastic? 

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11 hours ago, Tomo said:

Problem is, who can we get on Costa's level or close?

Aguero, Suarez and Lewa is no chance, Auba wants Spain, possibly Morata or if we push it Laccazette but beyond that I cant think of anyone who we could realostcially get.

That's obviously the hard bit. Cavani has been mentioned. Kane? Doubt Levy would sell to us. My fantasy is Benzema but that's near impossible. We could go for either Morata or Mandzukic from Juve. Higuian? Griezman can play striker as well. There are options if we want to consider it seriously.

 

50 minutes ago, The Skipper said:

Costa is honestly the better player. 

Yeah but for how many matches in the season? How often will Diego be more concerned about scoring than starting a fight? If Costa can play like he did against Arsenal for just 70% of the time, then we would not need to buy another top striker. 

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14 minutes ago, CHOULO19 said:

Yeah but for how many matches in the season? How often will Diego be more concerned about scoring than starting a fight? If Costa can play like he did against Arsenal for just 70% of the time, then we would not need to buy another top striker. 

Shouldn't forget about Costa's injury record either. Seems to be suffering one after every few games.

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12 minutes ago, Jason said:

Shouldn't forget about Costa's injury record either. Seems to be suffering one after every few games.

True. His hamstring is still a problem. I think we all expected him to undergo surgery in the summer but he didn't. Maybe that was one of the reasons that Jose was upset with the medical team..

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Just hope we look after him when we can and he keeps doing what he does best 

 

 

 

 

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DIEEEEGOOOOOOOOOOOOO DIEEEEGOOOOOOOOOO DIEEEEGOOOOOOOOOO

Love this lad.

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14 hours ago, CHOULO19 said:

Yeah but for how many matches in the season? How often will Diego be more concerned about scoring than starting a fight? If Costa can play like he did against Arsenal for just 70% of the time, then we would not need to buy another top striker. 

You're being a bit short sighted Choo! Costa is a very consistent player, don't take what's been going on earlier this season as proof that he isn't. It's an anomaly really. Costa will still end this season with 15-20 goals and that's impressive considering the season we've had as a club here. 

During his time here at CFC, apart from before Guus arrived this season, Costa has been a consistent player that has played at a high level. It's unfair to say he hasn't. 

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7 hours ago, The Skipper said:

You're being a bit short sighted Choo! Costa is a very consistent player, don't take what's been going on earlier this season as proof that he isn't. It's an anomaly really. Costa will still end this season with 15-20 goals and that's impressive considering the season we've had as a club here. 

During his time here at CFC, apart from before Guus arrived this season, Costa has been a consistent player that has played at a high level. It's unfair to say he hasn't. 

No he isn't! Apart from a few exceptions, he was sub-par and at times awful throughout all of 2015! 

How is it short sighted? He's been here for a season and a half and during that time, between the second half of last season and the first half of this, he's probably had more poor games than great ones for us. 

Everyone who's worked with him describes Diego as 'very emotional'. I'm sorry, but that's not AT ALL a positive quality for a professional footballer. It's unprofessional and a recipe for inconsistency. We can't afford to have him as our only top striker. 

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4 hours ago, CHOULO19 said:

No he isn't! Apart from a few exceptions, he was sub-par and at times awful throughout all of 2015! 

How is it short sighted? He's been here for a season and a half and during that time, between the second half of last season and the first half of this, he's probably had more poor games than great ones for us. 

Everyone who's worked with him describes Diego as 'very emotional'. I'm sorry, but that's not AT ALL a positive quality for a professional footballer. It's unprofessional and a recipe for inconsistency. We can't afford to have him as our only top striker. 

He was injured lots throughout the second half of the season last year, so that stopped his momentum. He still had a 1 in 2 goal ratio back then though. He wasn't amazing but he was decent. Not sub par though. 

I can say Costa is consistent usually because of how consistent he was at Atletico and how he was here last season for the most of it. Now he's gone through a very bad patch for the first time in years... With obvious reasons as to why... It's unfair to call him inconsistent. He's been our most consistent player under Hiddink whether you like that or not. 

Getting another top striker in to compete with Diego is entirely another argument tbh. I'm not disagreeing with you on that. 

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On 1/25/2016 at 3:06 PM, lucio said:

I hope this is real

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8 hours ago, The Skipper said:

He was injured lots throughout the second half of the season last year, so that stopped his momentum. He still had a 1 in 2 goal ratio back then though. He wasn't amazing but he was decent. Not sub par though. 

I can say Costa is consistent usually because of how consistent he was at Atletico and how he was here last season for the most of it. Now he's gone through a very bad patch for the first time in years... With obvious reasons as to why... It's unfair to call him inconsistent. He's been our most consistent player under Hiddink whether you like that or not. 

Getting another top striker in to compete with Diego is entirely another argument tbh. I'm not disagreeing with you on that. 

The reoccurring injuries are part of his inconsistencies and why we need to get another top striker. 

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15 minutes ago, CHOULO19 said:

The reoccurring injuries are part of his inconsistencies and why we need to get another top striker. 

And which top striker is willing to sit on the bench until Costa is injured? We all know Costa wont stay happy on the bench. We need the Pato's and Remy's unfortunately.

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8 hours ago, Roquila said:

I hope this is real

It's fake. Take a look at the (latter) replies to that post. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jan/24/arsenal-chelsea-premier-league-match-report#comment-67375309

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16 minutes ago, Polo7 said:

And which top striker is willing to sit on the bench until Costa is injured? We all know Costa wont stay happy on the bench. We need the Pato's and Remy's unfortunately.

Costa has many limitations, so we can easily have two types of strikers and keep them both happy a la Torres and Ba under Rafa (but hope fully A LOT better). We can have for example a Cavani who can hold up and a ball and be the focal point of attacks and start him in game when we need such skills while playing Costa in game when we need  a lot of movement and runs behind.

Or we can bin Costa, which as I said, I wouldn't at all mind. 

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And which top striker is willing to sit on the bench until Costa is injured? We all know Costa wont stay happy on the bench. We need the Pato's and Remy's unfortunately.

Costa has many limitations, so we can easily have two types of strikers and keep them both happy a la Torres and Ba under Rafa (but hope fully A LOT better). We can have for example a Cavani who can hold up and a ball and be the focal point of attacks and start him in game when we need such skills while playing Costa in game when we need  a lot of movement and runs behind.

Or we can bin Costa, which as I said, I wouldn't at all mind. 

Two top strikers won't be happy taking turns. The two you mentioned aren't even slightly on the same level as Costa. Even with the eventual injury or suspension he's been capital for the title, much better return than all potentially available strikers in the market.

Costa is underrated on his ability to score goals. He went through a bit of drought, any player is subjected to that. Even missing matches he takes us to a new level 7 goals/assists in five matches is one of the reasons we reacted in the league...

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19 minutes ago, Barbara said:

Two top strikers won't be happy taking turns. The two you mentioned aren't even slightly on the same level as Costa. Even with the eventual injury or suspension he's been capital for the title, much better return than all potentially available strikers in the market.

Costa is underrated on his ability to score goals. He went through a bit of drought, any player is subjected to that. Even missing matches he takes us to a new level 7 goals/assists in five matches is one of the reasons we reacted in the league...

Even Aguero, the best striker in the league which most people agree with has his droughts where he sometimes goes 5-6 games without scoring. Costa is no different. But when they are on form, they really are on form.