Diego Costa

[cadenza666 221]

Sky sources: Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa passes Chelsea medical - more on #SSN

[Fulham Broadway 16,832]

Good. He's a Mourinho player and we need more of those in order to be successful.

Lukaku has the potential to be a better player, given his age, and he has played and scored in this League, so lets have them both.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Sky Sports News ‏@SkySportsNews 38 שנ׳
Sky sources: Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa passes Chelsea medical - more on #SSN

[nachikethas 1,149]

get in

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

OK signing I'd say. He certainly fits our system but I am a little wary of a player with one great season in a very striker-friendly team/league. There is risk here. His holdup play is also not great as he gives the ball away an absurd amount. (6.5 dispossessed and turnovers a game. Hazard led our team with 4.2 of those a game). Still, he is a legit striker who can score... (finally!!) and a definite major upgrade on what we have there. Bottom line is he makes our team better.

[Duppy Conqueror 1,494]

Said before and will say again....This is the horrible nasty bastard we need up front, and we have needed for some time now. This guy is a fucking brute, no nonsense out and out pest. Yes he has a nasty streak to him but that is exactly what we need following the signings of people like Torres, Eto'o and Ba. We need a line leader, someone who the ball can be tossed up to and know he can fetch others into play and deliver something from nothing when things might not be going our way.

This is a proper Mourinho type striker for me, he will know his role with immediate effect at this club within minutes of speaking with Jose. He's the type of striker that won't need an instruction on what to do come game day because he will just put himself about like nobodies business. I don't like to do comparisons with Didier because he was just a class apart, but this guy will be the nearest thing we will see to the great man in terms of bullish attitude, a cunt to play against and an out and out match winner on his own.

Diego Costa 19...........Let's have it!!

Before Didier..there was Mark Hughes who intimidated defenders by more than just skill...minus the sniper shot acting..before him there was David Speedie..

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

"Diego Costa has reportedly passed a medical at Chelsea" ESPN join the party as well.

#CFC

[Duppy Conqueror 1,494]

OK signing I'd say. He certainly fits our system but I am a little wary of a player with one great season in a very striker-friendly team/league. There is risk here. His holdup play is also not great as he gives the ball away an absurd amount. (6.5 dispossessed and turnovers a game. Hazard led our team with 4.2 of those a game). Still, he is a legit striker who can score... (finally!!) and a definite major upgrade on what we have there. Bottom line is he makes our team better.

He's had 2 good seasons..Drogba had one..two if you count guigamp or whatever the hell they called.

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

Gaz ‏@BtntGaz 9m

People giving credit to Rob fucking Beasley re: Costa - I can only assume they don't follow me.

This is exactly why this twitter user annoys the fuck out of me.

[Fernando 6,453]

Torres, who made his name at Vicente Calderon, is under consideration for what would be an emotional home-coming.

Probably better news then any player we sign this window!

[Severinb 309]

Hope he turns out good. But just saw this stat again

@WhoScored: Diego Costa: No player missed more clear-cut chances in Europe’s top 5 leagues last season than Costa (22)

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

GOL GOL GOL GOL GOL GOL GOL GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL DE DIEEEGO COSTA

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Holy Moly

[boshman 1,073]

YESSSSSS!!!! Finally!!! A fucking striker!

[lucio 5,418]

Hope he turns out good. But just saw this stat again

@WhoScored: Diego Costa: No player missed more clear-cut chances in Europe’s top 5 leagues last season than Costa (22)

there was a similar stat going around about cavani

[1chelsea 864]

De Rock yessssss fuck it a stricker

[The Skipper 20,593]

Hope he turns out good. But just saw this stat again

@WhoScored: Diego Costa: No player missed more clear-cut chances in Europes top 5 leagues last season than Costa (22)

The worst statistic out there and why WhoScored are awful sometimes.

I remember when Schurrle had this exact one last year and people called him a poor finisher... Stupid stat.

Diego Costa was the most clinical striker in the top 5 European leagues last year, his shot to goal ratio is the best.

[Rekin 835]

Still, it is just a number. Statistics are hardly responsible for how people choose to interpret them.

I am actually encouraged by those stats. If Costa can be one of the highest scoring strikers in Europe and still miss a boatload, does it not translate into him being phenomenal in finding spaces for himself?