🇪🇸 Diego Costa

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

1 hour ago, Blue-in-me-Veins said:

xG explanation articles: https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2015/4/10/8381071/football-statistics-expected-goals-michael-caley-deadspin    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/mar/30/expected-goals-big-football-data-leicester-city-norwich    http://statsbomb.com/2013/08/goal-expectation-and-efficiency/

It's nothing to dismiss my man. A lot of the top clubs use these advanced statistics to measure the club's performances. Roman Abramovich is even cited as being a fan of these metrics, I believe Carlo Ancelotti mentioned it in an interview or his new book. 

The graphic is showing this: of all the strikers who have over 50 non-penalty-goals (NPG) over the past 3 seasons, if you took the number of goals they scored over that 3 year span and compared it to the number of expected goals (xG) they were supposed to score, you'll see which strikers outperformed their xG to the highest degree. So Griezmann scored 3.88 times more goals than he was expected to. It's highlighting who the better strikers are at scoring goals from shots that have low probabilities of going in. And to no surprise, Diego Costa is high on the list. 

If only I knew that "/" stands for divided by as in "G/xG" - goals divided by expected goals. Because I thought "/" should be read as "or" - goals or expected goals. That was confusing, now it's very clear mate. I will of course read how they come up with numbers in expected goals calculations. Hopefully there won't be many confusions or shenanigans. Tables in general are created to show something in easy way so if they are more difficult to read than text that's frustrating. 

Could you also point me to how to read those players radars? I have no clue why  different players have different peak number for the same attribute. Thanks in advance. 

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

3 hours ago, Blue Colored Sky said:

If only I knew that "/" stands for divided by as in "G/xG" - goals divided by expected goals. Because I thought "/" should be read as "or" - goals or expected goals. That was confusing, now it's very clear mate. I will of course read how they come up with numbers in expected goals calculations. Hopefully there won't be many confusions or shenanigans. Tables in general are created to show something in easy way so if they are more difficult to read than text that's frustrating. 

Could you also point me to how to read those players radars? I have no clue why  different players have different peak number for the same attribute. Thanks in advance. 

Yeah, the creator explained in greater detail the chart in his following tweets. lol 

Here's the only article I could find on player radars: http://statsbomb.com/2016/04/understand-football-radars-for-mugs-and-muggles/  hope it helps. 

[the wes 7,212]

Diego costa worse than Suarez in my books at least Suarez didn't act like a child when he wanted to move to Barcelona 

[Thor 2,705]

12 hours ago, Blue-in-me-Veins said:

Would happily take him back, if Conte could swallow his pride. 

His importance cannot be stated enough. Such an ELITE finisher.  

 

Eh. No way I take Diego in front of goal over Ronaldo. That stat can say what it wants. 

Misleading. Diego botches so many chances before the shot occurs. He finishes a lot of easy ones, but at times he fails to get a shot off or over dribbles really easy ones. 

[Jase 43,479]

13 hours ago, Blue-in-me-Veins said:

Would happily take him back, if Conte could swallow his pride. 

His importance cannot be stated enough. Such an ELITE finisher.  

 

Think you should apply that to Costa as well. Conte may have been wrong in dumping Costa the way he did but let's not forget the latter caused some trouble in January when that interest from China came and he has been behaving like a petulant child all summer. Costa isn't the first player to be deemed unwanted by a manager but in no way he should be behaving the way he has.

[coolhead23 1,147]

16 hours ago, Blue-in-me-Veins said:

Would happily take him back, if Conte could swallow his pride. 

His importance cannot be stated enough. Such an ELITE finisher.  

 

Mate, are u supporting player power? Can you imagine our manager doing what Costa is doing and still staying at the club? 

I understand that our strikers are no where the level that Costa is but he could have also handled this situation in a decent way instead of creating so much chaos. The manager's head is always on the line so I strongly hope that Conte doesnt apologies first, it should be Costa doing it with a public apology and then acknowledging his support to the club. Else we already have the reverse team or he can stay in Brazil paying fines to us. 

 

[Special Juan 28,141]

It will make the team stronger but what about the poisonous effect on the team? He could potentially drive the team apart....He should be kept well away.

[OhForAGreavsie 6,075]

On 02/09/2017 at 7:44 PM, Blue Armour said:

He clearly has bad advisers, whoever they are. Things shouldn't have degraded to this point, even after that text message.

Costa's advisors can't be unintelligent people so they must know their client's behaviour is undermining his own situation. They know that staying away from Cobham is the worst thing Costa could possibly be doing. Where they are underperforming is in being unable to influence the player to stop being so stupid.

The last thing Chelsea want is for Costa to turn up at Cobham. If he did they'd have to provide him training facilities and support. That support would have to be one to one because we clearly don't want him working with others. We'd have to manage the potentially toxic influence of an openly disaffected player. Worst of all we'd have to pay him.

If Costa arrived for training Chelsea would want to get his future sorted even more quickly so they could get him out of there again. By continuing to stay away, Costa is taking a lot of that pressure off Chelsea. You can bet his advisors are telling him to book a flight to London asap.

Edit: Atletico's advice to Costa that he should get back to training is designed to ensure that if Chelsea end up suing Costa, there is no way Chelsea's lawyers can make any kind of case that Atleti were colluding with the player. They want to make absolutely sure that they can't end up being sued too. 

[coolhead23 1,147]

1 hour ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Edit: Atletico's advice to Costa that he should get back to training is designed to ensure that if Chelsea end up suing Costa, there is no way Chelsea's lawyers can make any kind of case that Atleti were colluding with the player. They want to make absolutely sure that they can't end up being sued too. 

Brilliant assumption. It could very well be right. 

[YorkshireBlue 3,277]

21 hours ago, Blue-in-me-Veins said:

Would happily take him back, if Conte could swallow his pride. 

His importance cannot be stated enough. Such an ELITE finisher.  

 

Things like this proper piss me off. Why not get a been a Cunt graph, he would be at the very top. Honestly id rather suck the sweet out of a tramps sock then see this cry baby big eared toss pot in a chelsea shirt again.

[Jase 43,479]

 

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

Regardless of what he's done or doing, we really need him to come back get fit and compete for a place, even if it is just until January, Batshuayi looks ill suited to our system and quite frankly, useless and we failed to get Llorente, so we are short upfront.

Conte might have to swallow his pride but I can't help but think about Tevez at Man City however many years ago he was AWOL, came back, played and inspired them towards the title. Costa if he was fully fit, motivated and willing to stay until January at least, would be a good player for us and ultimately give us more depth in a position we are one injury away from being left in a very bad position. 

[Dimitr 488]

Chelsea’s hierarchy have asked Antonio Conte to consider using Costa again before his likely departure in January. (Gambling Times)

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

If he only stays till January anyway then I do not see what he could add provided that Morata stays fit. Diego lives from his his passion and fire. He will not display that for a club that wants him to leave I guess. Diego without that is plain useless. 

[xPetrCechx 13,571]

Chelsea staff have moved Diego Costa's car out of the first-team car park and into the youth bays.

[It's too big 625]

What is his car doing in the car pack still? He's been gone for months and would have thought his car would be parked at or near his house in London or wherever. Sounds like BS

[zakhov 253]

On 07/09/2017 at 4:34 PM, It's too big said:

What is his car doing in the car pack still? He's been gone for months and would have thought his car would be parked at or near his house in London or wherever. Sounds like BS

Maybe what they mean is they reassigned his parking space?

[Artandur 939]

http://www.marca.com/futbol/atletico/2017/09/11/59b6f42de5fdeaa66a8b45b5.html

Can a spanish-speaker help me out here ?

[Blusan Alamb 295]

Atletico Madrid to wrap up Diego Costa deal this week

Chelsea have finally agreed to enter into talks with Atletico Madrid over the sale of Diego Costa, now that the player is ready to return to Europe.

Until now the London-based team had been refusing to negotiate, instead insisting that the unwanted striker had to first return to England after three months of holiday in Brazil to train with the Blues' reserves.

Costa, however, was refusing to come back until Chelsea altered their stance and agreed to enter into talks with Los Rojiblancos, something his agent has communicated to the club.

As such, Chelsea have now been convinced and a deal for the 28-year-old to leave Stamford Bridge should be finalised this week, assuming all goes to plan.

A fee of around 60 million euros is being discussed, which would make Costa the most expensive signing in Atleti history - although it remains to be seen how much of that amount would be guaranteed and how much would be dependent upon performance-related add-ons.

http://www.marca.com/en/football/spanish-football/2017/09/12/59b7903fe5fdeaba3e8b4609.html

[Cosmin 2,484]

60m euros would be great business.