Diego Costa

[Jase 43,479]

 

[quickpassnmove 924]

19 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Yeah, I'm wondering where these goals are coming from to win the title. Maybe he needs a radiator but I'm not sure it's just the weather. Been cold for weeks (not just the weather).

[BoyBlue96 990]

Has been shit since the Chinese interfere some time ago.

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

On February 10, 2017 at 11:19 AM, BlueLyon said:

Icardi? Off all the young strikers, he is without the doubt the most limited one and arguably a very lazy one.

He is a good poacher thats why he gets those goals, but even inter fans would replace him with Kun in second if they had chance.

Not even. 

I don't know if you've watched Icardi recently, the guy is anything but Lazy. He runs extremely hard for the team, and always tries very hard to link up team-mates as much as he can. It doesn't help he has Candreva on one side, and is often left on an island all-alone, but he's been phenomenal this year.  

And to that last part, no way. Go on twitter/any forum right now, and ask any Inter fan if they'd even entertain that idea. Icardi has not only been banging in the goals but has an incredible number of assists as well this campaign.

Icardi has taken that next leap, you ought to watch him more. 

[Dahnald 256]

14/15 season over again where he also didn't turn up in the second half of the season.

[MefiX19 1,092]

2 hours ago, Dahnald said:

14/15 season over again where he also didn't turn up in the second half of the season.

He was injured for the most part of second half of 14/15

[the wes 7,212]

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/588315/Chelsea-News-Diego-Costa-contract

According to some reports Costa to get a new contract 

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

You don't just "simply" replace a striker who's on pace to help you win 2 league titles in the space of 3 years. Mad ting. 

Yes, Costa and Hazard will never be on the same wavelength on the pitch. Sad ting.  

Yes, Costa does suffer from hamstring injuries (this year he's been clean). Thank God. 

Yes, his technical ability is very hit or miss, and mostly the latter. Sad ting. 

But yet despite all this, he still leads the line and when on form has shown to be as clinical as fuck in front of goal, going through spells where his expected Goals scored vs Actual Goals scored are just out of this world. (Long winded way of saying Costa is clinical as fuck.) Mad ting.  

And like I mentioned earlier, he is on pace to fire the team to 2 PL Titles in 3 fucking years! Mad ting!  

Nah man, CFC gotta keep Diego at all costs. Can't trust the board to find an equally/more effective striker. You just can't trust them.

Lukaku links? Lmfao. 

[quickpassnmove 924]

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

You don't just "simply" replace a striker who's on pace to help you win 2 league titles in the space of 3 years. Mad ting. 

Yes, Costa and Hazard will never be on the same wavelength on the pitch. Sad ting.  

Yes, Costa does suffer from hamstring injuries (this year he's been clean). Thank God. 

Yes, his technical ability is very hit or miss, and mostly the latter. Sad ting. 

But yet despite all this, he still leads the line and when on form has shown to be as clinical as fuck in front of goal, going through spells where his expected Goals scored vs Actual Goals scored are just out of this world. (Long winded way of saying Costa is clinical as fuck.) Mad ting.  

And like I mentioned earlier, he is on pace to fire the team to 2 PL Titles in 3 fucking years! Mad ting!  

Nah man, CFC gotta keep Diego at all costs. Can't trust the board to find an equally/more effective striker. You just can't trust them.

Lukaku links? Lmfao. 

We should find the next Drogba. 

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Right thing to do IMHO. He's worth every penny. Might not be the most technically skilled centre forward, but I feel he's perfect for Chelsea's setup. Loved by the fans and brings much more to the game, not only goals. The way I see the football game, I think Diego Costa is one of world's finest centre forwards when coming to working the channels. In today's game of football every top teams needs this type of centre forward, a la Diego Costa, Luis Suarez, Robert Lewandowski, Edinson Cavani, to do it all, work the channels, come deep to pick the balls, help the defence, not only to act as a poacher, score goals and rely entirely on his team's performance. I think the modern centre forward is capable of scoring goals out of nothing even when the team is not at full capacity and Boro away and WBA at home come first in my mind.

Would be a hard task to do to replace Diego Costa and this news is music to my ears.

[Unionjack 7,531]

I dont think our striker problem is Diego. As a striker he does his job.

The problem we got is not having the creativity backing him to feed him AND Eden the balls so theres alot of times they are left standing with their thumbs up their arses.

We gotta get a creative minded CB and CM

[the wes 7,212]

Sky source reporting it now something must be down the pipeline we should offer courtios a new deal as well 

[Chelsea4 1,521]

This would be a big mistake he is almost 30 years old and his overral play is fucking shit why give him a contract extension when we can sell him for 85m and buy a better player?

[Dahnald 256]

3 minutes ago, Chelsea4 said:

This would be a big mistake he is almost 30 years old and his overral play is fucking shit why give him a contract extension when we can sell him for 85m and buy a better player?

My thoughts as well and he is very unpredictable in both his playing and as a person. 

[Leif 6,006]

let's just shower all our players with even more money to buy their loyalty even though their contracts have more than enough years on them still, yes, superb, necessary 

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

54 minutes ago, Leif said:

let's just shower all our players with even more money to buy their loyalty even though their contracts have more than enough years on them still, yes, superb, necessary 

Money is life.... for them.

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

2 hours ago, Chelsea4 said:

This would be a big mistake he is almost 30 years old and his overral play is fucking shit why give him a contract extension when we can sell him for 85m and buy a better player?

Okay then name a better player we could realistically get? Good luck mate, thats all i am telling you.

[Leif 6,006]

33 minutes ago, NiclasCFC said:

Okay then name a better player we could realistically get? Good luck mate, thats all i am telling you.

With the money we'd get for him we could buy Dybala, who if you haven't seen enough off is essentially Aguero on steroids (I say that because Aguero was not at this level at that age, but their strengths & weaknesses are generally the same.) He's also a bit like prime-Torres. He's a goal getter, and while he isn't strong, it's soon forgotten when you see how he can glide past players as if he's on ice. In fact I think he's the only player who could replace Messi eventually to a decent standard. 

As I harp on about, Lewandowski is also at least equal to Costa, it just depends on the system whether or not he surpasses him. 

I understand if they're not considered realistic buys, but I think with 80m+, both of those guys are leaving. 

On paper, based on stats, and based on the opinions of people we should take seriously, those are really the only 2 players on the same level of Costa. However, there's always the clear fact which us top clubs ignore, which is when the system is right, you can potentially find 5 players in Ligue 1, or the Portugal league, all of whom would cost peanuts and yet excel greatly given a better manager & teammates. In that vein, I believe Mitroglou would be very solid here for example. Though i'd like him as a back up, since the easiest way to win titles is by having experienced bench players, not bench players who still need to be nurtured (as is our case).

One thing is clear; there has never been a poorer pool of strikers in Europe. Football is in shambles compared to what it used to be, the worst it's ever been in so many ways, and that makes everything complicated regarding our expectations.

(Also, I'd sign Muller from Bayern and make him a full time striker. He's essentially prime Rooney minus the freekicks, playing on the wing for his career, which is an insult to his qualities. With Conte, he'd become the best poacher there is, but with all the hardworking qualities of a different sort of player. He's having the worst season of his career, so I imagine him being allowed to leave for 50m in this current climate, maybe even 40m.)