Diego Costa

[Oscar 441]

Love the fact hes playing for Chelsea FC. Take the agression out, and he would be a shadow of himself.

Exactly.

A lot of the South American players have this aggression that gives them an extra edge...

[Gilvorak 3,734]

Dropped by Del Bosque. Smart from him.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

After embarassing himself claiming Costa is the 2nd best striker in the world ahead of Lewandowski and others, Aguero just made him look even more 'special' by scoring 5 goals today in a match while it is approaching November and Costa is still on 2 goals. @Pacquiao.

[Stats 7,136]

After embarassing himself claiming Costa is the 2nd best striker in the world ahead of Lewandowski and others, Aguero just made him look even more 'special' by scoring 5 goals today in a match while it is approaching November and Costa is still on 2 goals. @Pacquiao.

Aguero and KDB definitely had a look at this forum and saw what Pacquaio said. They definitely wanted to prove a point to him.

[Tomo 21,751]

After embarassing himself claiming Costa is the 2nd best striker in the world ahead of Lewandowski and others, Aguero just made him look even more 'special' by scoring 5 goals today in a match while it is approaching November and Costa is still on 2 goals. @Pacquiao.

It won't be as embarrising as your backtracking if Costa returns at The Boleyn ground and nets 3 or more.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

It won't be as embarrising as your backtracking if Costa returns at The Boleyn ground and nets 3 or more.

I never said he was a bad striker? all I am saying is I don't like him and don't think he should be a Chelsea player because of his antic and limitations as a footballer. Maybe reputation wise he is probably still top 20 in the world atm, but reputation is very different from reality. The claim of him being 2nd best striker in the world is just outright ridiculous though and deserve all the mocks it get, that is like saying Higuain is the greatest Argentine striker of all time.

[JaKstone 307]

Should of got Griezmann when we had the chance.

[CurlyHairLikeLuiz 1,625]

I really miss having a striker who's not either a gimp or a pushover

Please come back <3

[kdot 58]

We really are missing his leadership on the pitch right now.

[Tomo 21,751]

Even a Costa on average form is so much better than Falcao and Remy its not even funny.

[zolayes 14,489]

I miss a striker who scores goals ,, how long will Willian be our top scorer ???

[Hybrid Angel 2,130]

Don't know what you have until it's gone. Cliché, but it's the truth about Costa.

[Henrique 9,133]

After embarassing himself claiming Costa is the 2nd best striker in the world ahead of Lewandowski and others, Aguero just made him look even more 'special' by scoring 5 goals today in a match while it is approaching November and Costa is still on 2 goals. @Pacquiao.

Where is Pacquiao?

[stroey 2,525]

Diego Costa admits he returned to Chelsea overweight this summer

“I’m going to be very honest. Maybe a few weeks ago, five of six weeks ago, I was not on top of my game. At least physically.

“We talk within the players and we know that maybe at the beginning we were not 100 per cent as we were supposed to be when we got here. I got injured at the end of the season and then I went on holiday. Maybe I got out of my diet and when I came back I was not the way I was supposed to be. I was a little bit overweight. That affected my game.

“You can be selfish and blame it on the manager, but I’m not going to do that. I’m responsible 100 per cent and so are the other guys. We know we’re not in the best form we were supposed to be at the beginning of the season.

“We need to blame the players because we came back from holiday very confident, and we thought we could go back into how it was last season, and then when we actually realised in the situation where we were, the team was already in a bad situation. So all we can do now is train very hard and work very hard, and try to get back to that level where we were the season before.”

“I’m here because I’m happy with the manager, I’m here because my team-mates have gone away to the international break, I don’t like giving interviews, but I’m speaking for the group,” said Costa.

“We all feel the same way about Jose, for example when I played in Madrid, people respected me much more, the supporters and the crowd.”

“He’s very direct, straightforward, he always speaks what he thinks and what he believes to be the truth,” said Costa. “Sometimes it’s not what people want to hear. It’s the way he is and it’s why sometimes they criticise him.

“There are managers who always say what people want to hear. I think that’s not good. I’d rather have someone who tells me straight up what happens rather than sweet things that I want to hear.

“I have been here for more than a season, I have seen sides that have lost much more games than Chelsea, and no one criticises their managers. They can say whatever they want about Mourinho, but inside the dressing room, he is completely different from the idea people have of him.

“If you ask a million players who they want as their manager, they will all come back with a top three list of Mourinho, Guardiola and Simeone. It was one of the reasons I joined Chelsea .”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/11920114/.html

"The players are to blame," said striker Diego Costa, who happens to share the same agent as his manager in Jorge Mendes.

"Mourinho is giving us all the support we need. The players say he is the best manager we can have. Maybe he gets criticised because he is very good. Maybe he gets criticised because he is Mourinho."

"Yes, Mourinho has supported me, but he has supported all the players. It's not that. I'm happy with the manager. We all feel the same way about Jose.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/610839/Diego-Costa-Chelsea-Premier-League-Jose-Mourinho-Chelsea-news

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Fabregas needs to create chances for Costa. The rest of our attacking players are poor finishers