Ever since jose was sacked, he's been trying his utmost to help us win the game..  His so called bad boy image is more of a forced act rather than something that is out of control thing.. The fact he rarely got a red card suggests he's under control, certainly not someone who would let his emotion get the better of him..

 

The most in form striker in england at the moment, when he's focused on football, we're all happy.. 

Diegos goal against Stoke underlines how good he is atm. Absolutely from nothing.

He's what we have been after since Didier left, and could well be better than him, this is the Torres type we thought we had bought, Roman won't sanction his sale, unless we could get Bale inlace of.....

43 minutes ago, Ballack & Blu said:

He's what we have been after since Didier left, and could well be better than him, this is the Torres type we thought we had bought, Roman won't sanction his sale, unless we could get Bale inlace of.....

Nah .

As good as Costa has been he will never top the great man. Drogba was a once in blue boon type of player. Best we have had since Drogs of course.

 

1 hour ago, Chelsbear said:

Nah .

As good as Costa has been he will never top the great man. Drogba was a once in blue boon type of player. Best we have had since Drogs of course.

 

His stats prove he is well up with the great man, just needs to do it when it matters, but plenty of big goals already for us....

7 minutes ago, Ballack & Blu said:

His stats prove he is well up with the great man, just needs to do it when it matters, but plenty of big goals already for us....

Drogba won us cup finals,  CL finals, multiple EPL titles and done it over a number of seasons. Costa has been superb this season even better than his first season but for me Drogba is still the best striker we have ever had and I don't really see that changing.  Hopefully Diego is here for a few more seasons giving us the same fantastic return of this season, I just think Drogba was the better striker.

That's no slant of Costa given Drogba wasone of the world's best strikers for a near decade remember. Costa is in my top 3 strikers in my time watching Chelsea 

Edited January 2, 20179 yr by Chelsbear

Lampard is my favourite Chelsea striker, was in the Box more than Drogs ever was, lol

9 hours ago, Chelsbear said:

Nah .

As good as Costa has been he will never top the great man. Drogba was a once in blue boon type of player. Best we have had since Drogs of course.

 

Costa is easily the better striker, Drogba is legend and everything but Costa is clearly better then Drogba was.

4 hours ago, pacquiao said:

Costa is easily the better striker, Drogba is legend and everything but Costa is clearly better then Drogba was.

 

Nuff said

Edited January 3, 20179 yr by Chelsbear

Both legends already, different players who should be celebrated more than anything. Costa isnt that long in the door, so lets judge him after a few more seasons. 

Massive boots to fill with the Drog, though, he was the ultimate big game player.

Although there are similarities between the two they are different players. Drogba wasn't a consistent goal scorer in that he didn't get 20+ every season but he was for sure a big game player and one that would always step up on cup finals.

Costas came in scoring goals regularly from the first moment however had a dreadful off season last time out. This season though he has stepped up and is playing the best he's ever played.

While I don't think it's impossible for him to surpass the big man I do doubt it. If he scores 20+ regularly a season he will certainly be deemed one of our greatest of all time for sure but until he creates those special moments in the huge games like Didier did then he can't be considered better right now imo

costa really has come on leaps and bounds within the last couple seasons. when he first came i thought he was clumsy, technically awful, injury prone and too temperamental to last at the club. fast forward 2 seasons and he is no longer those things and is a different beast altogether. he is still coming into his prime too, which is the scary thing. got to admit, i was very wrong about the beast. 

Edited January 3, 20179 yr by enigma

http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/02/where-would-chelsea-be-this-season-with-diego-costas-goals-6356385/

 

Much been talk about costa's importance to us, yes it's important but not as much as those people who would like the whole world to believe..  In that table, we're 5th but only 5 points behind the top spot and that without any of those top 6 teams being handicapped by their top goal scorer like us.. I bet if every team topscorer is being taken out, we'd fare higher up in that table, maybe even the top...

 

Interestingly, costa hasn't yet scored against any of those top 6 teams this season, well he can start next in the spurs game..

 

19 minutes ago, bola said:

http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/02/where-would-chelsea-be-this-season-with-diego-costas-goals-6356385/

 

Much been talk about costa's importance to us, yes it's important but not as much as those people who would like the whole world to believe..  In that table, we're 5th but only 5 points behind the top spot and that without any of those top 6 teams being handicapped by their top goal scorer like us.. I bet if every team topscorer is being taken out, we'd fare higher up in that table, maybe even the top...

 

Interestingly, costa hasn't yet scored against any of those top 6 teams this season, well he can start next in the spurs game..

 

He has scored against City and against Liverpool...

Edited January 3, 20179 yr by True Blue23

26 minutes ago, True Blue23 said:

He has scored against City and against Liverpool...

 

ok my bad, I got that wrong..  conveniently his goals in that 2 games didn't decide the results so there is a good chance we'll still probably be top if every top team is being stripped of their top goalscorer's goals so if others say we'd be f**ked without costa then you know how to respond...

Yeah, because all Costa brings to a team is goals, that's it.

You don't half talk some sh*te 

27 minutes ago, bola said:

 

ok my bad, I got that wrong..  conveniently his goals in that 2 games didn't decide the results so there is a good chance we'll still probably be top if every top team is being stripped of their top goalscorer's goals so if others say we'd be f**ked without costa then you know how to respond...

He's scored a few against Arsenal aswell 

Just now, Bobbywoodhogan said:

He's scored a few against Arsenal aswell 

 

I was talking about this season in epl, we lost that game 3 nil... Yeah, I forgot he scored against city in 3-1 win and 2-1 lost against liverpool but apart from that, no goals.. 

 

Lots of pundits and oppositon fans have been saying how would we be f**ked without costa and that gets me to wonder how correct is that and it turns out, if we're playing on fairer ground that every team top goalscorer being taken out, we'd still probably be top..

32 minutes ago, dkw said:

Yeah, because all Costa brings to a team is goals, that's it.

You don't half talk some sh*te 

 

Grow a brain..  can you be more team oriented? you totally miss the point.. I'm actually giving more credit to the team as a whole..  I just went along with the system that link has set up to debunk the myth about chelsea can't compete without costa.. Team over individual, oh wait, you don't like that..

Apart from two goals, hes scored no goals.  Allright then 

27 minutes ago, bola said:

 

ok my bad, I got that wrong..  conveniently his goals in that 2 games didn't decide the results so there is a good chance we'll still probably be top if every top team is being stripped of their top goalscorer's goals so if others say we'd be f**ked without costa then you know how to respond...

Didn't realise you were talking this season only.

Those kinds of articles are stupid if we didn't have Costa we'd have another striker and if that striker was someone else the game would be different as different passes/runs would be made etc. They're just a waste of time.

2 minutes ago, Xfaxtor said:

Apart from two goals, hes scored no goals.  Allright then 

 

Arsenal 3-nil lost, spurs 2-1 win (pedro - moses if I'm not mistaken), MU 4 nil win (pedro, hazard, kante and forget another 1 but sure it's not costa) so anything else that I miss in that top 6 mini table??

I don't get what you're trying to prove.

Costa has been the standout player this season in the Premier League. What does it matter that he didn't score against Arsenal, Man U or Spurs?

1 minute ago, Bobbywoodhogan said:

I don't get what you're trying to prove.

Costa has been the standout player this season in the Premier League. What does it matter that he didn't score against Arsenal, Man U or Spurs?

 now that you're going way off track..

 

Look, it all started by lots of accusation that without costa, we'd be f**ked.. I'm just trying to prove otherwise.. if they take out costa, our main man, following that article in the goals rule that being set up there, we'd be 5th BUT it's not fair because we're without costa but those teams are still with their main man.. take every team main man and the team at the top would still probably be chelsea.. that's the point..

On 15/12/2016 at 22:52, Bobbywoodhogan said:

I was thinking this just earlier and yeah he does seem to score 1 in a game mostly. I don't think I can recall too many times he's scored more than 1 goal per match but he's usually involved with an assist aswell. He's just a different kind of striker to those mentioned. I'd argue he's more consistent, while those will score a few goals per match and that's what boosts their rally's Costa's 1s in matches happen more regularly. If that makes sense.

Exactly my reasoning, just if he was more prolific we'd kill those games off quicker..A young Defoe would suit, playing with him...