I personally think we should be looking for a less known striker who doesn't come with a huge price tag. Call me crazy but right now I'd 100% take remy over costa. Remy just looks like a real livewire who knows where the goal and could thrive with the players we have.

A small name player wouldnt replace Torres in the team imo. Case and point is Sturridge.

It would be nice to find a less known striker so there wont be as much expectation but I honestly think Torres is picked a lot because or marketing and because having a player who is a top earner at the club out of the squad is a bit of a joke.

To do that I think we need a new big name striker to who is playing well to keep Torres on the bench.

To all those Anti-Costa people (and im accepting he isnt amazing but)

 

Who else can you get, thats available. 

 Lukaku, both have same faults , only one won't cost us 32m to see if he can solve a problem position for us. Tbh I'm not overally impressed with either, there is a dirth of top class strikers available at present.We should curse the day we decided to give Aguero a miss, an expensive mistake! I'd like to see us throw our hat into the ring if Sanchez came available.

I hate the way that those who are concerned about Costa are derided as some kind of footballing idiots!

Our opinion is just as valid as anyone else's!

No one's saying they want him to fail, most people have admitted to not seeing him lots of times, I think I speak for most when I say that we just aren't that excited by him.

here's hoping we're wrong.

I understand what you are saying, but for me this isnt acceptable and not the stance we should be taking. The club can't just say "well nobody else is available so let's just punt £32m on this geezer and hope for the best".

 

Balotelli. Mandzukic. Push the boat out and go for Cavani who is disgruntled with life in Paris.

 

How much would Benzema cost?

 

Every player has a price. We've just coined £50 f**king million from David Luiz. Why spend £32m of that on a guy who is questionable at best. Why not push for that higher end striker, ship out a couple of players (Mikel, please go away), perhaps even sell a few of the 27 we have on loan, to offset the pain of investing heavily in a striker? Isn't this the whole business model? Use the loan system to identify one or two gems, and use the rest of the players who arent good enough for us, but who can do a job for others, to sell on for reasonable profit to help fund the acquisition of top quality first team players?

 

and before anyone jumps down my f**king throat about it, the loan players that I would suggest be sold would be those who are less likely to have a future at cfc. The dead wood that is in no way good enough for our team - for example marin, romeu, moses.

 

we can do better than this. I just do not see this guy as being significant enough of an upgrade to take us to that next level. it worries me. The most alarming thing for me having watched him over the last few months and thorughout the CL campaign is his absolute lack of pace... its horrific.

 

He isnt the quickest, but he hasnt been injured.

 

Id rather him over Balotelli, maybe not over Mandzukic.

 

 Lukaku, both have same faults , only one won't cost us 32m to see if he can solve a problem position for us. Tbh I'm not overally impressed with either, there is a dirth of top class strikers available at present.We should curse the day we decided to give Aguero a miss, an expensive mistake! I'd like to see us throw our hat into the ring if Sanchez came available.

 

Id want to keep Lukaku also.

I have two concerns regarding Costa and I look back at past signings when making these observations

 

number one his injury which he does not look like he has recovered from

 

number two is his total lack of speed and reaction pace something that is a requirement in the premiership

 

 unless he is going to hold up the ball for hazzard and oscar and co 

 

and for 32 million  we are probably getting the rest of the spanish squad thrown in

 

i hope to be proven wrong  but i am sure we can look back in the archives

 

and see the same people having ago at the so called Torres doughter and telling us all

 

how we will all look silly when he comes good

 

 

I've said it elsewhere but for £30 odd million I want more than good runs, he's had 2 chances at goal & they were both sh*t!

You can blame fitness, but I'm still not seeing anything to convince me that he's the goal scorer that we need.

Did you see any of his games last season?

Every time I see a new post I think there's a new rumour... not writing him off ater 2 (two) games whilst clearly not fit (he was a stupid selection)... weird.

cavani is a proven goalscorer. costa has had one good season and one prior to that which was decent.

 

cavani had 25 goals in 43 games for psg this last season playing out of position. 

 

 

Comparing player stats between Spanish league players and French league players is where your argument is flawed.

I have two concerns regarding Costa and I look back at past signings when making these observations

 

number one his injury which he does not look like he has recovered from

 

number two is his total lack of speed and reaction pace something that is a requirement in the premiership

 

 unless he is going to hold up the ball for hazzard and oscar and co 

 

and for 32 million  we are probably getting the rest of the spanish squad thrown in

 

i hope to be proven wrong  but i am sure we can look back in the archives

 

and see the same people having ago at the so called Torres doughter and telling us all

 

how we will all look silly when he comes good

 

 

 

Why do you persist

 

in writing like this

 

i mean seriously who does this?

 

 

Costa's lack of pace is a concern, I agree. We shouldn't write him off though, he hasn't even signed for us yet!

I understand what you are saying, but for me this isnt acceptable and not the stance we should be taking. The club can't just say "well nobody else is available so let's just punt £32m on this geezer and hope for the best".

 

 

 

Thought I would quote this bit as I can't help but feel that this is what it seems like right now.

 

Buying any player is always a gamble and there is certainly a real shortage of top strikers around right now. £32M might be on the cheap side by today's standards but it's still a f**king lot of money IF Costa turns out to be yet another failure. I'm far from convinced by him. Yes, I would take him over Eto'o, Ba and Torres but that's not saying much. Just feel the club are panicking. Having lost out on the likes of Aguerro and Tevez in the past, when both could easily have become Chelsea players and having let Sturridge go (Don't think I am ever going to get over that one. I know he might not have been the right fit for us but we could have at least tried to play him in his preferred position) we know we cannot afford to go into another season without a goal threat so we are gambling on Costa who has a decent record, all be it for only a season or so in a totally different league.

 

I don't look at Costa and think "yes this is the missing piece of the jig-saw - this is a Top Striker". But I guess we have to gamble and hope that he becomes just that.

Thought I would quote this bit as I can't help but feel that this is what it seems like right now.

 

Buying any player is always a gamble and there is certainly a real shortage of top strikers around right now. £32M might be on the cheap side by today's standards but it's still a f**king lot of money IF Costa turns out to be yet another failure. I'm far from convinced by him. Yes, I would take him over Eto'o, Ba and Torres but that's not saying much. Just feel the club are panicking. Having lost out on the likes of Aguerro and Tevez in the past, when both could easily have become Chelsea players and having let Sturridge go (Don't think I am ever going to get over that one. I know he might not have been the right fit for us but we could have at least tried to play him in his preferred position) we know we cannot afford to go into another season without a goal threat so we are gambling on Costa who has a decent record, all be it for only a season or so in a totally different league.

 

I don't look at Costa and think "yes this is the missing piece of the jig-saw - this is a Top Striker". But I guess we have to gamble and hope that he becomes just that.

 

I don't feel like it's a wild punt in the hopes he'll succeed.

 

We've apparently been after him since January and so we made our interest known to him very early on.

 

Following the sale of Luiz for a heft sum I don't think it's a stretch to say that had we wanted to we could have targeted more "high profile" strikers such as Rooney or Cavani for example but we're apparently still going with Costa.

 

All I can assume from that and given Mourinho's recent comments is that Costa is the striker that Mourinho wants.

 

I'm sure plenty of us raised an eyebrow when Mourinho decided to drop £24m on Drogba rather than plenty of strikers with bigger reputations and scoring records but Mourinho knew what he wanted for his team and I view this transfer in the same way.

 

I'm not saying Costa will be as big of a success as Drogba was but it's maybe worth thinking about. 

Thought I would quote this bit as I can't help but feel that this is what it seems like right now.

Buying any player is always a gamble and there is certainly a real shortage of top strikers around right now. £32M might be on the cheap side by today's standards but it's still a f**king lot of money IF Costa turns out to be yet another failure. I'm far from convinced by him. Yes, I would take him over Eto'o, Ba and Torres but that's not saying much. Just feel the club are panicking. Having lost out on the likes of Aguerro and Tevez in the past, when both could easily have become Chelsea players and having let Sturridge go (Don't think I am ever going to get over that one. I know he might not have been the right fit for us but we could have at least tried to play him in his preferred position) we know we cannot afford to go into another season without a goal threat so we are gambling on Costa who has a decent record, all be it for only a season or so in a totally different league.

I don't look at Costa and think "yes this is the missing piece of the jig-saw - this is a Top Striker". But I guess we have to gamble and hope that he becomes just that.

I'd go with that.

I'm almost certain this time next season we will still be looking for a star striker, this will be a stop gap IMO, a pretty expensive one at that.

Did you see any of his games last season?

I saw him in 3 & half games.

read my above post, no one's claiming to have watched him week in week out.

I've now seen him in just over 5 games, in those games, I've seen nothing that makes me go wow, we MUST sign this guy he's exactly what we need.!

If he proves me wrong, I'll be over the moon.

I don't feel like it's a wild punt in the hopes he'll succeed.

 

We've apparently been after him since January and so we made our interest known to him very early on.

 

Following the sale of Luiz for a heft sum I don't think it's a stretch to say that had we wanted to we could have targeted more "high profile" strikers such as Rooney or Cavani for example but we're apparently still going with Costa.

 

All I can assume from that and given Mourinho's recent comments is that Costa is the striker that Mourinho wants.

 

I'm sure plenty of us raised an eyebrow when Mourinho decided to drop £24m on Drogba rather than plenty of strikers with bigger reputations and scoring records but Mourinho knew what he wanted for his team and I view this transfer in the same way.

 

I'm not saying Costa will be as big of a success as Drogba was but it's maybe worth thinking about. 

 

As much as I'm not convinced by Costa, I think I'd still take him over Cavani who I'm also not convinced by and as for the fat, bald scouser, I wouldn't pay £50k a week for him, never mind £300k. So glad that deal fell though and he never became a Chelsea player.

 

So I do appreciate the dilemma, as we desperately need a striker, but there are very few options of the finished article available.

Mourinho said last season we will buy a striker with a killer instinct and who can score a goal out of nowhere. But if Mourinho buys Costa it will be an irony because Costa is completely different, he doesn't have that killer insticnt and he's far from a striker who can score goal by his own. And last season the Atletico's attack was built around him.

 

Plus he just had one good season and for that 32millions is a lot f**king lot. I'd rather have Balotteli I know he's a c**t so is Costa but his technical abilities are far far superior to Costa and he is just 23 year old and can be one of the best strikers in the world in some time.

What is the news on falcao, is he injured?

No sure anyone has shared any videos of his goals this season so here goes.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u42-Cth6CoE

 

 

And another one for his goals, assists, skills etc

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erpJEB2WdcA

He's clearly not the type of striker who can score goals against parked buses I mean against small teams who sit back. Most of his goals are from counters.

I'm seriously worried about this signing.

Comparing player stats between Spanish league players and French league players is where your argument is flawed.

 

why? both leagues are generally poor outside the usual suspects, and neither league is nearly as competitive as the PL. However, Cavani has proven himself to have a good goal scoring record, consistently, in international football and at club level with napoli and PSG. You can only compare on the basis of the leagues they play in, how else are you meant to compare them? Costa has had one outstanding season and has been anonymous in international football in 6 appearances - with zero goals.

 

I'll disagree with anyone who thinks costa is a better striker than cavani, until costa proves it consistently.

I don't like him, i never have. I don't think he is anything special, his goals are nothing spectacular and i honestly feel that if he comes up against defensive sides, which he will, he will fail every time. The likes of Aguero, Suarez, Van Persie, Ibrahimovic etc etc etc score goals out of nowhere, for £32 million that is what we should expect from Costa, but i don't think he has the ability to actually do that.

 

So i can easily see him getting frustrated and if he gets frustrated he will lash out and get himself sent off. Yeah we have sh*t strikers now, but you don't just bring anyone in for the sake of it.

Campring Cavani to Costa is madness. Cavani is in somewhat similar league to Falcao, Aguero and Suarez on other hand Costa is comparable to Mandzukic, Balo and other 2nd tier strikers.

 

Cavani's goalscoring record in Napoli was extra ordinary even better than Suarez, Falcao, Aguero etc.

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Campring Cavani to Costa is madness. Cavani is in somewhat similar league to Falcao, Aguero and Suarez on other hand Costa is comparable to Mandzukic, Balo and other 2nd tier strikers.

 

Cavani's goalscoring record in Napoli was extra ordinary even better than Suarez, Falcao, Aguero etc.

 

agreed - my point exactly.

Costa scored plenty of goals for Atletico. Who knows how many is he going to score for Chelsea?

To compare a 32m striker with a 60m one, it has no sense, I feel.

50millions*