We can't be forced to sell by his lawyer, he legally has a contract and we can let him rot in the reserves as far as we are concerned. He is earning money without doing anything for the club since the end of the season. Also he can't pick the club we will sell him to the highest bidder even if it means he goes to China.

Edited August 4, 20178 yr by TrueBlueBIH

Whoever gets him is going to get the biggest bargain in football EVER. I know he has been a muppet but i am so angry it is not being sorted out. 

So the 'hard man' went running to the law pwhahahahahaha you lost points there old chum

Only just seen that on Sky sports. There is absolutely no chance of there being a u-turn and him coming back to play for us. I know you will all say, Obviously not. I was just hoping for it to happen. Totally given up. I am not going to post anymore about him until he goes.

Does the transfer request meen he will have to forfeit some wages or somthing . Some where in the back of my mind I seem to remember hearing it was not financially beneficial for the player to hand in a TR

1 hour ago, barak81 said:

Does the transfer request meen he will have to forfeit some wages or somthing . Some where in the back of my mind I seem to remember hearing it was not financially beneficial for the player to hand in a TR

Yep, any and all loyalty bonuses.

I think if a player puts in a transfer request, he loses out on loyalty bonus if he is sold. Costa getting his lawyer involved is probably an attempt to keep said bonus, by claiming he has been forced to request a transfer. 

I don't know how this one will end. I hope we dig in and refuse to sell him cheaply even if it means having to pay his wages, while he isn't in the squad for 6 months. 

12 minutes ago, undertow said:

Yep, any and all loyalty bonuses.

Loyalty bonus is an hilarious name for it, when the majority angle for a move, threaten to strike etc.

Have to say we've handled this extremely badly from a business point of view.

Obviously we were always going to get screwed over by forcing Costa out when knowing full well that the only club he'd leave for would be the mob of cheapskates he came from.

The club really need to set a precedent with this one. Meet the valuation or f**k off to the reserves. 

I hope with this latest show of pathetic petulance that he has pissed Roman off enough to dig his heels in just because he can.
There's only one winner in that one !!

Let him do his fitness on the beach for the next 6 months or the end of his contract if no one meets our valuation. We need to set the standard here that no player will hold our club to ransom, if I was Roman I'd be inclined just to write the wages off if no one is offering what we want.

 

Thankfully, for all the stick our board gets, the one thing we do tend to do really, really well is sell our players for good money.

Anyone missing Diego yet? 

8 minutes ago, DonAntonio said:

Anyone missing Diego yet? 

Never wanted him to leave in the first place, His aggression is 10/10, strikers need that nowadays

8 hours ago, DonAntonio said:

Anyone missing Diego yet? 

We lost the FA cup final with Diego in a much better team so drawing against the same team with worse players ain't too much to worry about. Pretty confident Morata will be able to replace him.

Just now, DonAntonio said:

Anyone missing Diego yet? 

I make no secret of it, He is one of my all-time favourites. I say again, It is pathetic how it has not been sorted.

We will miss the physical target he gave us, our other options up top are much more lightweight, but he made his own bed and has never truely wanted to be here, so he has to go.

11 hours ago, Blue_candy said:

Never wanted him to leave in the first place, His aggression is 10/10, strikers need that nowadays

Not so sure about that claim, the leagues top scorer and the hottest property in English football isn't aggressive, he's not even that strong. Same with Aguero before him. 

Certainly missed his aggression yesterday, how much he actually contributes to our style of football is being underestimated.

I think we are going to miss him sorely this season, Morata looks really lightweight and he's more of a nice boy than the batsh*t crazy aggression like Costa.

Its going to take some time for the team to get used to playing with a totally different kind of striker.

Only if Costa was sane off the pitch.

Only if Costa was sane off the pitch.

What a black german winger?

don't miss him going missing for half the season when he decides to have a strop, or getting himself sent off because he shows too much aggression. it gets tiresome after a while. losing some mickey mouse cup game he didn't feature in isn't going to change that. 

When his head is screwed on he's simply unplayable and one of the best strikers in Europe.

We all witnessed that for the first 6 months of this season and our previous title winning one. Sadly he doesn't seem to enjoy England and he's wanted out basically ever since he arrived. 

Any team or supporter would miss what he brought when he was interested. I think we will see how hard it is to replade his goals this season 

 

Maybe he can get a permanent job at the circus

conte and him are having one hell of a summer but in a different way 

 

 

Apparently launching a legal case against the club now. The 2017 Eva.