Diego Costa

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

You guys forget something very important.

------------------ Cillessen ------------------

---- de Vrij ------- Vlaar -------- Indi -----

Janmaat --------- Costa ------------ Blind

(Iniesta) -- De Jong - de Guzman - (Silva)

------------- (Xavi) ----------- (Xabi) ---------

------------------- (Sergio) --------------------

------------------- Sneijder -------------------

Call him a one-season wonder, but Van Gaal had Del Bosque in his pocket here

Janmaat - Iniesta

Blind - Silva

De Jong and De Guzman - Xavi and Xabi

Sneijder - Sergio

de Vrij, Vlaar and Martins Indi - Diego Costa

Still a PK in his favour and possibly a goal if David Silva would have passed the ball to him, instead of trying that fucking chip over Cillessen.

[Duppy Conqueror 1,494]

He's David Speedie with an exotic twist..

He'll be hated by opposing fans all over the world and i'll love him for it.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

[calculatingInfinity 1,452]

Can we honestly say he is significantly better than Lukaku ? To the point that we should pay 32m for him when we have Lukaku ? I am very scared because this seems like another disaster signing waiting to happen when we are still barely recovering from the Torres debacle.

I think letting Lukaku leave would be a disaster either way. But Chelsea needs more than just Lukaku, and Torres or Ba are not good enough. There's not certainties in football, but I think Chelsea could do very well with someone like Costa, we need more players that wants to win no matter the cost.

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

[De_ChrapQaa 192]

I have mixed feelings after reading couple last pages, so do we want a striker or fucking not? if we are scared to sign him because there's a possibility he'll flop then we might aswell keep torres as no.1, that'd teach you all

[The_Flash 1,144]

I'm slightly concerned by his performance tonight and then they put Torres on instead?? Lol

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Well spain were the better team in the first half, after he came off, spain turned to complete shit. No more runners for iniesta/silva to pass to

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Well spain were the better team in the first half, after he came off, spain turned to complete shit. No more runners for iniesta/silva to pass to

[Muzchap 8,966]

Well spain were the better team in the first half, after he came off, spain turned to complete shit. No more runners for iniesta/silva to pass to

Yeah strange that it kinda summed up our last season

Statue up front - to be fair to the statue it did have 3 distinct poses:

1) Nowhere near the ball or goal

2) enjoying total relaxation on the floor

3) grumbling to the Ref that it wanted to spend more time in position 2

[Liuxas 121]

Yeah i'm really confuse after this match. now thinking maybe he's really one season player. Maybe we shouldn't pay huge amount of money for Diego. It might be safer to buy Mandzukic for 18-20 mln €. And just wait for new prospective striker from Porto or Ajax.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Guys stop with the kneejerk reactions...Costa had poor game, made great runs, but poor touch. However it was one game and this spanish style doesnt realy suit him at all.

As anyone I would prefer someone like Cavani, Rvp or Suarez, but such players arent available unfortunely.

Botom line he is one big cunt though and I blame him bit for not picking Brasil (he has milions of angry brailians on neck now). And I generaly dont like players who turn against their own teams (like Torres or Cesc) because there is so much hate towards them and that affects whole team. Anyway if he can score goals and dont get red card every game, I would gladly take him. He doesnt have that nice style and world class abilities ala Rvp but he can score and he can make defenders shit in pants and thats what we need.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

Actually hope we haven't completely tied up the deal and lets wait and see how Jackson Martinez/Balotelli and Mandzukic are doing then reassess our choices.

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

He's just came back from injury give him a break. Spain were shit all over the pitch

[Viper22 2,418]

Diego Costa:

2011/2012: 16 games, involved (scored or direct assist) in 14 goals.

2012/2013: 36 games, involved in 20 goals.

2013/2014: 44 games, involved in 39 goals.

Please shut up about him being a 1 season wonder. It's just not true. AND he was playing on the wing thanks to Falcao up until this season.

[José1893 89]

LOL, according to many dumb forum members here, Ramos is a shitty CB, same goes to Piqué. According to this forum, Costa is a one-hit wonder, and Xavi+Iniesta beginners.

Come on! Spain was a pure mess, all 11 players didn't deserve to be called 'pros'. Costa made good runs, won a penalty by his cleverness and after his substitution, Spain's nemesis began. He is no one-hit wonder either - people writing such shit just prove their knowledge of football equals 0.

[Ramzi 233]

Another issue was that he was being played as a false 9, he made his mark in a calssic striker role.

[Mustafa 885]

Lol One game and some of you guys are already saying he's shit.

My, oh my....