Diego Costa

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32 minutes ago, King Kante said:

On his way out of AM in the upcoming window. If Giroud leaves for any reason, I wouldn't mind taking him back for 6-18 months. Sure he isn't the player he was but at the moment we need more cnut's in the team as we are too nice and what better cnut could everyone learn from? 

No thanks. We turned a blind eye on Costa's c***ish-ness last time because he was producing it on the pitch. Otherwise, his attitude isn't worth persevering with and worth remembering Lampard also wants players with a good character in the squad and not one who could be troublemaker. Moreover, Costa has gone downhill and has had plenty of injuries ever since he went back to Atletico. 

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3 hours ago, King Kante said:

On his way out of AM in the upcoming window. If Giroud leaves for any reason, I wouldn't mind taking him back for 6-18 months. Sure he isn't the player he was but at the moment we need more cnut's in the team as we are too nice and what better cnut could everyone learn from? 

Not who he was is an understatement, he in the present day makes our version of Falcao look like a GOAT.

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2 minutes ago, Mana said:

I don't know why people want Costa back. The only time I wanted him back is because we had Morata and he was worse (at the time). But people seem to forget the terrible times when Costa was here.

Costa v Conte, doesn't matter what side you're on he was part of that negativity in the dressing room.

Costa throwing a bib at Mourinho. Costa doing red card offenses on the pitch that while he may got away with it then, he will definitely not get away with it now thanks to VAR.

Also worth remembering that while Costa scored tons of goals in the two title winning seasons, he kinda went off the boil in the second half of both seasons. He tended to fade off after a strong start to the season.

And not to mention, we don't need to get bad PR for his on the field behavior again. We already have enough other problems/worries as it is...

[King Kante 1,643]

Personally, I do not mind Costa's antics, I think they are largely overplayed and a lot of it is to do with his upbringing growing up in a favela. I mean, firstly you have to accept what he thinks is 'normal behaviour' is going to be different to that of players who grew up in Europe and have been pampered to since they got swallowed up into a youth set up before they were in secondary school. 

I mean if you hear the players that played with him, almost all of them sing his praises which tells me he is probably a good teammate/bloke but just with a mercurial/anti-establishment mentality. 

Further, I personally like the dark arts of the game and hate widespread blandness of players today and especially how a certain segment also come out with empty platitude nonsense as they trying to build some sort of sainted/sanistised brand on InstaTwit or whatever. Me personally, I'll take a player with Costa's personality over any of those posers. 

That said, I fully appreciate he isn't the player that he was and that is enough to avoid. However, my initial post did outline him being an option if Giroud leaves in Jan which is fairly unlikely so it was more of a hypothetical suggestion than a real idea. Obviously, it is one that no one else likes. 

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On 24/12/2020 at 0:36 AM, King Kante said:

Personally, I do not mind Costa's antics, I think they are largely overplayed and a lot of it is to do with his upbringing growing up in a favela. I mean, firstly you have to accept what he thinks is 'normal behaviour' is going to be different to that of players who grew up in Europe and have been pampered to since they got swallowed up into a youth set up before they were in secondary school. 

I mean if you hear the players that played with him, almost all of them sing his praises which tells me he is probably a good teammate/bloke but just with a mercurial/anti-establishment mentality. 

Further, I personally like the dark arts of the game and hate widespread blandness of players today and especially how a certain segment also come out with empty platitude nonsense as they trying to build some sort of sainted/sanistised brand on InstaTwit or whatever. Me personally, I'll take a player with Costa's personality over any of those posers. 

That said, I fully appreciate he isn't the player that he was and that is enough to avoid. However, my initial post did outline him being an option if Giroud leaves in Jan which is fairly unlikely so it was more of a hypothetical suggestion than a real idea. Obviously, it is one that no one else likes. 

I would welcome him back as Giroud's replacement

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Costa gone Costa again...

I guess this is what some people want back, aye?

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

Get him back here asap.

We want enthusiasm he got in bundles, love the guy.

And he loved/loves it here

[lucio 5,418]

Get him 

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He's a free agent now...

 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

15 minutes ago, Jason said:

He's a free agent now...

 

Finished at the top level.

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[Superblue 6,372]

Hopefully freeing up the wage budget to take Alonso off our hands next month.