Diego Costa

[Oscar 441]

I don't watch many Atletic games, however, I was reading half the goals Costa scores are from longballs from Koke?

Is this true?

[dee25 1,044]

Bale only had one great season before before becoming a world-class player. Same thing with Drogba who had his first 20 goal season with Marseille and we all know how that turned out.

Except Drogba didn't cost us 50 million pounds though?? 50m is twice as much what we paid for Didi and look at how long it took him to find his feet here. In his first season here I think he scored about 10 goals, 2nd season he scored around the same. Are people going to be satisfied with that return for 50m? Because it's very possible that Costa will need at least a season to settle in.

[The Chels 2,502]

The £50m deal rumours assume that we won't come to any agreement with Atletico and that we will instead have to pay Costa the £32m + tax so he can activate the buyout clause. Though the good relations between the clubs and them wanting Courtois could well mean that we do agree a deal with them.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

I like your optimism... Wish I could share it. But we've been burned too many times when it comes to strikers... Torres, Shevchenko, Crespo, Mutu are just some that immediately spring to mind.

Hasselbaink, Gudjohnson, Drogba, Crespo, Anelka, Hughes, Vialli, Flo?? We've had more success with strikers in the last 20 years than failures. Why is Crespo in your list when he had a record of one in two for Chelsea. He was arguably better than Drogba in his brief spell here but returned to Italy because of his family. Mutu was hardly played as a striker at Chelsea and as you know, it wasn't because of football reasons he failed at Chelsea. He was a brilliant player.

We've had one dominant striker in Drogba and we've played one up top for the best part of the Abramovich era, so we haven't needed anyone. And when we did experiment with two upfront, Anelka won the golden boot in 2008 I think.

This talk of Chelsea being a graveyard for strikers when we can only talk of 3 examples in 20 years is not very accurate on further scrutiny.

Sheva = Already passed his prime when he joined. Why pay 30 million pounds for a 30 year old who has no hunger and has won it all?

Torres = Had a very serious knee operation in 2010 and lost his spark since then. 9 goals in his last 23 games for Liverpool and a poor showing at the 2010 world cup. We should have passed on him. The signs were there that there was something seriously wrong.

Kezman = Never good enough in the first place. One of those guys who scored a shitload in a weak Dutch league but got exposed in a proper league as being an average player. He was rubbish in the Spanish league too. Besides, there was a huge influx of players at this time. It was either "swim or sink".

[Billy. 2,742]

I like your optimism... Wish I could share it. But we've been burned too many times when it comes to strikers... Torres, Shevchenko, Crespo, Mutu are just some that immediately spring to mind.

Crespo was class for us, he just got too home sick thats were it went wrong for him

[We Hate Scouse 10,286]

The £50m deal rumours assume that we won't come to any agreement with Atletico and that we will instead have to pay Costa the £32m + tax so he can activate the buyout clause. Though the good relations between the clubs and them wanting Courtois could well mean that we do agree a deal with them.

That would mean the tax is more than 50%. They must be mixing euroes with pounds somewhere along the line to get that figure.

[LondonPride1905 236]

His clause is 35 mil. pounds so calm down. Simeone also mentioned they are interested in Torres, so seeing a potential swap deal would be interesting.

[iseah100 5,612]

Get Costa at ANY price. He's the only world class striker available, and stop the bullshit about how physical the EPL is. He'll be fine, dude is tough and is a rough player plus he's a big dude. He'll adapt fine. I could see 30+ goals in all comps next season.

[jasonlol 154]

hes good looking in some weird way

[Special Juan 27,424]

Lots of sense in a swap deal for Torres. Surely even Emanalo can see that.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Lots of sense in a swap deal for Torres. Surely even Emanalo can see that.

Because it's solely down to Emenalo to make transfers for us right? And because Emenalo has been so bad with his transfers right? Come on, give him a break.

[Special Juan 27,424]

Because it's solely down to Emenalo to make transfers for us right? And because Emenalo has been so bad with his transfers right? Come on, give him a break.

Erm who rattled your cage? And if you read around I actually have written good things about Emanalo.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Erm who rattled your cage? And if you read around I actually have written good things about Emanalo.

Fair enough, it's just that too many people are quick to chastise Emenalo when he hasn't even done a bad job, so naturally it irks me a bit when people suggest stuff like that.

[quickpassnmove 924]

Will be interesting if Ciro Immobile goes to Atletico. can't wait to see that.

[Toli 977]

Except Drogba didn't cost us 50 million pounds though?? 50m is twice as much what we paid for Didi and look at how long it took him to find his feet here. In his first season here I think he scored about 10 goals, 2nd season he scored around the same. Are people going to be satisfied with that return for 50m? Because it's very possible that Costa will need at least a season to settle in.

Drogba cost us 37 m euros. 37 m Euros at that time are equal to 50 m pounds today I would say.

And Costas clause isnt 35 m pounds. Its 40 m euros, as spanish media says.

[Special Juan 27,424]

Will be interesting if Ciro Immobile goes to Atletico. can't wait to see that.

Sounds like a mobile phone network

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Chelsea confident £50m transfer of Diego Costa from Atletico Madrid is in the bag

Striker is set to agree £185,000 a week contract to spearhead Jose Mourinho's summer overhaul of his forward options

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/transfers-chelsea-confident-diego-costa-3416537#ixzz2z21ESySw

[Strike 7,217]

apart from di marzio, i don't think even a semi reliable source is saying this is done. daily fail, telegraph, mirror, etc guessing as usal