Diego Costa

[Sheva. 5,373]

https://twitter.com/JakeFCohen/status/484014049034649600

Check his other tweets as well.

He says Costa will be on 185k, surely that will be a considerable increase from whatever he was on previously.

[LAM09 6,783]

He says Costa will be on 185k, surely that will be a considerable increase from whatever he was on previously.

That's quite alot if true. Won't he be the highest paid player at Chelsea then?

[manpe 10,861]

The top comments on facebook made me laugh 'Waste', 'He sucks bring back Lukaku', ' we don't want him'.

Christ almighty its irritating when he doesnt even have to miss a chance in a blue shirt before 'fans' jump on him. Ridiculous. If all works out well for him we won't be reading that! More like 'Awesome', 'Sell Lukaku we have Costa!' and 'Please stay forever'.

Welcome Diego, fingers crossed you prove the doubters wrong and score a hatful. I am keeping my expectations low but that's understandable in recent years haha!

Who reads those facebook comments anyway? Everyone knows no real Chelsea fan ever posts there, they post in TalkChelsea. Every time I go to have a look at the comments, I wonder how these people know how to turn on a computer, let alone type in it. So many morons flying around there it's not even funny anymore. What I also noticed is that many of them are fangirls of certain players or group of players, I hope nobody takes them seriously, I certainly don't.

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Undoubtedly Diego Costa has his own weaknesses. His technique is not as good as most of his colleagues in the best European leagues. Nevertheless, I praise his attitude and willingness to score in every match. We absolutely need a poacher like him who can simply put the ball into the net. He's quite fast and strong, and there's no need to mention that he is a very clinical player. I just hope our physios keep up the good work so that Costa's season won't start like the previous season ended at Atletico...

Anyways, welcome Diego! So excited about the next season and there's still plenty of time to make some transfers if José thinks we need them. Filipe Luis and Tiago maybe? Anyways, this transfer window has been nice for us so far!

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

This is my favourite Diego Costa video on youtube. Shows how very ambidextrous he is. A quality (along with many others tbf) we haven't seen in our strikers since Drogba.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7sHp8jJsmw

[Sheva. 5,373]

That's quite alot if true. Won't he be the highest paid player at Chelsea then?

Yup. Torres and JT are at 150-175k reportedly.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Undoubtedly Diego Costa has his own weaknesses. His technique is not as good as most of his colleagues in the best European leagues. Nevertheless, I praise his attitude and willingness to score in every match. We absolutely need a poacher like him who can simply put the ball into the net. He's quite fast and strong, and there's no need to mention that he is a very clinical player. I just hope our physios keep up the good work so that Costa's season won't start like the previous season ended at Atletico...

Yep. It's true his technique is not great like a van Persie, Ibra or a Benzema but it's more than good enough to link up to our attacking midfielders, Hazard especially who loves those one-two's with the striker. It's Certainly better than Lukaku's, Torres and Drogba when he first joined in 2005. Like you accurately said, he is incredibly fast (contrary to the cluless rubbish Danny Murphy was saying in the Spain vs Chile game) and pretty powerful. I can't think of any top class striker right now that quite combines power and pace as he does.

[ZanSnake 1,211]

Costa on £185k is better then Rooney on 210K-to-300k£ we could have had

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Yup. Torres and JT are at 150-175k reportedly.

Hazard actually. He apparently earns around 185k and there are talks that we plan on renewing his contract. I'm not sure if Cesc is supposed to be our highest paid player now or something.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Costa on £185k is better then Rooney on 210K-to-300k£ we could have had

LOL! It's insane really. He earns more than Ronaldo and Messi. Man United are all over the place now that Fergie is gone. 30 + million for Shaw. 28 mil for Herrera. I mean he's a good player but not that good. Then we buy Costa for 32 mil and Cesc for 28 mil. Two world class players. Add that to the fact we let Luiz go for what, 50 (!) MILLION?!

We've never had so many good deals in the Abramovich era. That's why it's not enough just to buy what we need : a CF, LB and CM. We should also go for some luxury buys; Pogba, Di Maria and Sanchez. We have to get back to the level were we can confidently compare our squad to the likes of Bayern, Real and Barca let alone Man City.

[didierforever 7,349]

LOL! It's insane really. He earns more than Ronaldo and Messi. Man United are all over the place now that Fergie is gone. 30 + million for Shaw. 28 mil for Herrera. I mean he's a good player but not that good. Then we buy Costa for 32 mil and Cesc for 28 mil. Two world class players. Add that to the fact we let Luiz go for what, 50 (!) MILLION?!

We've never had so many good deals in the Abramovich era. That's why it's not enough just to buy what we need : a CF, LB and CM. We should also go for some luxury buys; Pogba, Di Maria and Sanchez. We have to get back to the level were we can confidently compare our squad to the likes of Bayern, Real and Barca let alone Man City.

luxury buys can be more disruptive than good in my opinion. look at the willian buy for instance. it took away mata and kdb's playtime and forced them out. buying sanchez/dimaria would mean one of oscar/willian on the bench, salah getting next to no playing time and schurrle getting cup matches here or there.

same goes with pogba. renders mvg and rambo useless cos we already have cesc and matic.

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What the payment is should not bother me just want to see performance which I know is around the conner

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[MetsajCFC 1,255]

Mixed feelings, let's see... welcome and good luck!

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

luxury buys can be more disruptive than good in my opinion. look at the willian buy for instance. it took away mata and kdb's playtime and forced them out. buying sanchez/dimaria would mean one of oscar/willian on the bench, salah getting next to no playing time and schurrle getting cup matches here or there.

same goes with pogba. renders mvg and rambo useless cos we already have cesc and matic.

Willian was/is never in the same class as those guys though. That's why in another thread I suggested selling Willian. He's not a player i'm convinced by at all. He's not like Oscar for example. At least with Oscar, when he's not as it his best you could say he's of a higher standard and is under-performing, with Willian it seems to be his true level. He is to me a very limited player. Bundles of energy, but incredibly unproductive. He's also shown nothing (goals/assist stat wise) in his previous clubs to sway my opinion. Will he improve, yes. But he isn't just going to turn it on all of a sudden. I hope he proves us wrong and becomes more decisive, but somehow I don't see it. And as for restricting other players, I don't buy that. If you're good enough, you'll play. This is how it is at the big clubs.

That's why I suggest we cover all bases. Of course, I'll rather we made our 3rd big signing a Paul Pogba. I'll take that over a Di Maria cos he's a player we need, especially if Mourinho plans to play Cesc as the number 10, which I'm starting to suspect he would. But why can't our 4th be a Di Maria if he's available? We're also very attractive to foreign players now. Young, super talented team. Top coach. Most posh location in the best and biggest city in England. We have money to spend from the PL TV rights, from semi-finals of the CL and from Luiz's Christmas gift transfer. That's not even including the standard transfer budget. Not all that money will be made available for transfers, but still that's a LOT of money.

Jake Cohen does an excellent job breaking down how much we have available to spend: http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2014/6/5/5777740/chelsea-summer-transfer-budget

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

I'm actually watching a replay of Diego Costa vs Valencia match from last season, for those interested and with time on your hands to waste.

http://livefootballvideo.com/fullmatch/spain/la-liga/atletico-madrid-vs-valencia-2

Atletico didn't even create many chances but he still managed to be almost unplayable against a good la liga team. His footwork is also very impressive.

[didierforever 7,349]

Willian was/is never in the same class as those guys though. That's why in another thread I suggested selling Willian. He's not a player i'm convinced by at all. He's not like Oscar for example. At least with Oscar, when he's not as it his best you could say he's of a higher standard and is under-performing, with Willian it seems to be his true level. He is to me a very limited player. Bundles of energy, but incredibly unproductive. He's also shown nothing (goals/assist stat wise) in his previous clubs to sway my opinion. Will he improve, yes. But he isn't just going to turn it on all of a sudden. I hope he proves us wrong and becomes more decisive, but somehow I don't see it. And as for restricting other players, I don't buy that. If you're good enough, you'll play. This is how it is at the big clubs.

That's why I suggest we cover all bases. Of course, I'll rather we made our 3rd big signing a Paul Pogba. I'll take that over a Di Maria cos he's a player we need, especially if Mourinho plans to play Cesc as the number 10, which I'm starting to suspect he would. But why can't our 4th be a Di Maria if he's available? We're also very attractive to foreign players now. Young, super talented team. Top coach. Most posh location in the best and biggest city in England. We have money to spend from the PL TV rights, from semi-finals of the CL and from Luiz's Christmas gift transfer. That's not even including the standard transfer budget. Not all that money will be made available for transfers, but still that's a LOT of money.

Jake Cohen does an excellent job breaking down how much we have available to spend: http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2014/6/5/5777740/chelsea-summer-transfer-budget

dude, i know we can afford to spend 150mil with the new samsung deal, pl deal, luiz sale. but the point is DO WE?

jose has always loved a small 18-20 player squad. a squad where everyone knows their roles. buying players we dont need disrupts not only that but also the dressing room harmony where players see that they are being replaced despite being in the title race till the 2nd last game week and the semis of the CL and that too without a good striker. buying players we dont need would create a situation like the RM galacticos. u dont need 25 WC players to win the league. u can do it with a squad like united under SAF's last season.

as for willian, i disagree. he might not have been in the goals and assists last season but he had a very good first season in PL. dont forget how poor and headless chicken-ish maria was in his first 3years at RM.infact willian for us this has been far better than what maria was at RM for 3 seasons under jose. only this season has maria been phenomenol, i think willian deserves the same amount of time.

cesc was not bought to play no.10. jose has continously said that oscar is our no.10. we have let go off lamps and replaced him directly with cesc. even in jose's interview about cesc he said something like having different trype of CMs not no.10.

in short, there is no need for another AM like maria unless we get an OTT bid for one of our AMs and need to replace them. pogba would be a wonderful buy if can offload rambo. but until we sell someone out of our existing squad, all we needed was a CM, ST and LB, 2 of which we already have got.

[Jase 43,479]

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WE'LL MOVE WHEN WE WANT TO! WE'LL MOVE WHEN WE WANT TO!! WE'LL MOVE WHEN WE WANT TO!!!

It'll be moved once we confirm the signing. Now, it's just the agreement with Atletico. Someone could always hijack the medical.