Diego Going, Going, Gone!
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Well, that is another reminder of how Chelsea transfers are in a mess nowadays. We have told our best striker at the club that he has to find a new club, and while we are no where near reaching an agreement with the potential selling club. and revealing that we don’t want him may weaken our negotiating position. i don’t know whose idea is this but, whoever sanctioned this idea needs to have a look at themselves. allegedly we are reluctant to pay £300k pw to Costa, and according to the rumors, is that we are prepared to pay that similar amount to Lukaku who i feel isn’t an upgrade to Costa.
wise-fan – Key phrase in your post is “according to rumours”. Let’s keep things in perspective until we KNOW what is happening. Having said that, I agree that telling Costa he is unwanted, however honourably intended that might be, damages our negotiating position, and might better have been left unsaid. Apparently AC Milan are interested, and lets hope someone else is and we can create a dutch auction. If not, I can see him going on the cheap. The fact AC Milan is involved is interesting, if you remember the convoluted deal involving them, Atletico and Chelsea when Torres left us.
Wise fan frankly I don’t care about Diego feelings. Conte was straight forward with him. Costa already have an agreement with Conte that he will be leaving for ATM by the end of the season and CFC have gone on to look for alternative. Am guessing that we already in advanced stage of signing a forward and therefore Conte have text him to tell him that from next season he wont be the number 1 striker at CFC. Diego was the one that revealed to the media about this no one hacked his phone to reveal that. Is either a team pays a loan/sign him he will be spending the season on the bench as CFC third striker .
Wise fan from 3 different sources now iv seen that we are willing to pay lukaku 150pw the same amount costa is on. Which is still a huge pay rise for him. Like iv said before. The personal terms with lukaku is a formality. Its the fee that will be hard. Lets no make a mistake, lakaku loves chelsea. Have you seen the video of him when he was younger visitin stamford bridge? I really dont think lukaku is that bad of an option. I just think one in and one out in the striking department is a complete side step and doesnt put us any further forward in terms of strenth and depth. We need another 1. A morata/ lorente type
Also cfc.
1. I think conte would of prefered to tell him to his face but thins with his replacemnt lukaku have moven forward quite fast? Maybe the club have agreed terms witb hom like lualaku has stated and wanted to tell costa before it got out ?
2. Bat has publicly came out and said he doesnt want to sit on the bench again next season. i think hell go on loan. We need 2 ready made strikers for next season. Im the cl with lukaku and bats i dont fancy our chances against anyone big
Lukaku hasn’t signed yet and Diego is already going? What’s going on? Would we end up with no striker?
I found it hard to believe as Conte has always said good things about Costa during the season. And he is our top scorer.
And don’t forget we’ll lose Hazard for the beginning of the seasonWhy we seemed obsessed with bringing Lukaku back is beyond me, WTF did the club not even attempt to get Sanchez.
Im with Wisefan, this already has disaster written all over it with what has gone on the alst couple of days, a striker who thinks hes better than he is and is still belongs to another club, the one we do have has now told the worlds press his manager texted him to say he was not wanted, yet not a word from within.Who really knows what was in the so called text message, or if there really was a text, can’t really see Antonio doing this by text. With what is going on with liverpool glad our club keep stum (quiet)
Intresting point of view. Adrian clarke has a point
Costa’s made this up, 100 per cent he’s made it up,” Clarke said on talkSPORT.
Why would a manager text someone ‘you’re not in my plans’? I’m not having it, why would a manager do that? You would at least phone them up.
I just don’t buy that that would happen. I’m saying Costa wants to leave and he is just trying to accelerate the process, manufacture, accelerate, however way you want to say it.
“The problem for him is Atletico Madrid are not allowed to sign players and he wants to go to Atletico Madrid.
“He wants to now let everyone else know ‘I’m available, I want to go’.
Not bothered about Costa leaving I didn’t think he was that good:
2014/15 = Costa was excellent all season
2015/16 = Costa was awful all season
2016/17 = Costa was excellent one half and terrible for the other half of the seasonA real top striker plays excellent for more .5 of his time at club it should be closer to .75
+ you add the tantrums and disciplinary liability/record
+ the injury liability with his groin/hamstrings/back
+ Costa score more than 1 a game. He got 1 brace all season, this was against southampton 6 games from the end of the season.Agree this sounds iffy as I do not think Conte would do this by text or even the Club would. Seems a lot like a bit of manouvering by Costa to get himself in the frame based on the strong Lukaku rumours
As for Lukaku I have stated many times that I think he is a player with great potential but I do not see that he is worth more than 50m. He is young and will continue to learn and apart from whomever we have at Chelsea he also has the benefit of Henry when with Belgium so really should improve his game
I think Lukaku will serve us well in the EPL – which for me should always be our main priority anyway – so in that respect I can see us scoring even more goals next season. Whether he is up to the CL or not only time will tell
However, if the stories are true then the most important thing is that Conte believes that Lukaku can take us a level higher and if that is what Conte believes then I am more than happy to go along with him. KTBFFH
I think this almost certainly means Costa is done at Chelsea whether what he has said is 100% accurate or not will become apparent over the coming days but we’ve yet to hear anything officially from the club and this is not the way such things are handled with the player using the media during an international break to make such an announcement.
As 1905 has rightly pointed out announcing it this way by Costa himself and even introducing a bargain price into it smacks of a certain amount of manipulation by Costa to potentially his advantage.
Those questioning whether the club knows what its doing need to give their heads a wobble the owner is one of the worlds most successful businessmen and the Manager one of the most renowned in football!
It doesn’t make any sense whichever way you look at it. We have a striker who despite being volatile served us well. but we have now told him that he is not wanted ( or say that he claims ) no one from the club has come out to deny. so we assume its correct.
Then we are after a striker who despite doing well makes his feelings public. he frequently gives interviews stating his desire to leave his current team. and as we know that may be the main reason as to why Conte may have decided to cut links with Costa assuming that Costa’s claims are true. we have started our summer transfer window with the worst possible way. this was a summer that was suppossed to be a summer of rebuilding after what we have achieved last time. here we are fighting to hold on our squad. disaster is waiting to happen !
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I see no criticism of the club in any of the posts, just two players who have separate statements to the world media which has undermined the club.There is a text but the context was different. From sources there was already an agreement in place for possible transfer to ATM which got Costa playing. CFC have started looking for a striker and negotiation is far gone.
Speculation now:decision to suspend ATM from signing players affected everything becos they would have raised the fund from Antoine sale now everything is up in the air for Diego. He probably wanted reassurance from Conte regarding playing time till January for himself but the response most likely was ‘if that’s your decision then I don’t want you in my team find another team’ that’s what got Costa very angry because agreement was help me win the league and we will grant you your wish of return to ATM. That’s why Diego statement of after all I have done for the Club they no longer want me.
The club have every right to do with him what ever they want.to me it does not matter who said what or why as long as Costa is gone and never to come back-theres still plenty of time to bring in a couple of top quality signings
Wise fan and other criticising the club over something that is alleged to have happened.
Costa has downed tools or his boots for 1.5 years of his time at the club. Last season, the internal issues cost the club a manager and the compensation that entails, as well as champions league football and the loss of revenue that entails. Roughly added up, Costa’s actions and team performance has cost Chelsea perhaps 40/ 50 million in revenue shall we say in one season.
He’s now trying to mug the club out of more money by going public with a private communication if that is what is alleged to have happened as he knows it undermines chelseas bargaining position.
He and his agent are mugging all of us off. Get rid before he costs the club more money. If we get twenty million for him, that represents good value because he’s on a downhill career path now and isn’t going to get better.
An ex had a chihuahua called Diego, hated it as it shit and pissed everywhere and on anything. this story remind you of anyone?
Ok let us say Costa was wrong going it with public. but equally Conte was also wrong to send that sms to a Chelsea player at that time. and when we don’t have adequate replacement in place. in this case the verdict is also reads guilt for Conte. if we sell Costa on the cheap and end up being mugged off by buying Lukaku for a £100M. then Conte needs to take responsibility. because he shouldn’t have sent that to a player whom he has had disagreements in the past. he should have left that decision to the club to make a decision. even if Costa wasn’t in his plans he should have privately communicated to the club not to the player whilst on holiday. that is reckless approach and one that will cost us millions in transfer fees and loyalty bonuses.
Wise fan.
So conte is dammed if he does and dammed if he doesn’t? What if the club has said to conte, please let the players know if they are staying or going?
It’s about this time of the close season that clubs make these decisions?
1 it gives the player and agent time to find another club.
2. The club are lining up his replacement.
3. Many on here including yourself have said you want the manager to have more say in who comes and goes.
4. Wouldn’t costa be breaking a confidentiality clause he will have signed not to go public with internal affairs?
5. I see this as a player forcing a move and not the other way around given his attempts over two seasons to move away from Chelsea.
6. the player has gone public not the club, once again, it shows a lack of professionalism on his behalf. Remember him turning up overweight for pre season?
Costa is badly advised. Is a hot head and has again brought the club into disrepute.
He has a market rate and if he wants to be a bench warmer or train with the youth team pre season it’s up to him. I’m not sure club or manager is on the wrong here.
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