What happened?
Where's he gonna go?
Was a forward line of Suarez & Costa just too much cnut?
Diego Costa has had his contract terminated at Atletico Madrid
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
What happened?
Where's he gonna go?
Was a forward line of Suarez & Costa just too much cnut?
Arsenal sniffing around apparently
Arsenal. Retirement home for Chelsea rejects.
Would be a bad move for Arsenal.
They tried shifting him in the summer with no takers. He's been poor and injury prone for a good while now.
Go on Arsenal. Throw £200k a week at him.
He’s not that old is he? Like 32-33? Wouldn’t be a bad signing for Arsenal imo. He’s actually got a bit of grit & fight in him, something they sorely lack.
I would have taken him as backup striker if we didn’t get Cavani.
I would have taken him as backup striker if we didn’t get Cavani.
Take your time with it.
China or Brazil
Would he be? They've lacked an edge for a long while now. I think he'd do well for them. But they'll likely continue their trend of a record red cards under a new manager.
They signed him from us less than 2 years ago for £54 million as well. Not a great deal for them.
He a shite sight worse than Auba (even if he’s out of form right now.)
Watch Arsenal spunk big wages on him and leave bigger holes in the squad.
Watch Arsenal spunk big wages on him and leave bigger holes in the squad.
How on earth does your club get fees like that?
Unreal, I reckon a lot of people owe Roman ‘favours’ shall we say.
Atleti signed him back for 60M and he scored only 12 goals in 61 Liga games and 1 in 11 in CL in those three years. That amount of money they wasted on strikers / attacking midfielders is absolutely unbelievable.
Horrible player who offers nothing but a lack of discipline.
He's scored 9 league goals since September 2018 if I've counted it up right.
Fearsome striker in his day but if he couldn't score much at Atletico Madrid where he's adored I don't see him doing it anywhere else major.
Didn't he want to go to China in his final Chelsea season? That could be an option.
Fearsome striker in his day but if he couldn't score much at Atletico Madrid where he's adored I don't see him doing it anywhere else major.
Didn't he want to go to China in his final Chelsea season? That could be an option.
It didn't work out whatsoever for either party. Looked a good deal for them at the time.
We got £54 million for a player who wanted out whose form fell off a cliff. We're usually on the other end of those deals.
Also, this is how I usually deal with Costa stuff....
Chinese league is cutting down on ridiculous wages.
Just what Arsenal need: an ageing striker on a big contract who doesn’t score goals anymore.
Maybe MLS and Inter Miami or Atlanta who like the hispanic players.
Interesting he hasn't hung around to try to get another title winners medal as he was still involved farily regularly in the team so suggests he's got something lined up and whoever it is would have no chance of paying a significant transfer fee.
You usually sell for ridiculous amounts. You got decent money for Oscar and David fecking Luiz!
He only recently turned 32, there's surely still a player in there....
Maybe Wolves depending on what’s going on with Jimenez. Can’t see Costa messing around with Nuno either.
If they bring Costa in they may be able to stay in the league.
He'll get a much better side than Wolves (not to mention he'll want more money than they could offer).
He'll join his mates Luiz and Willian at Arsenal I reckon.
He was meant to be going in January anyway. They're just speeding the process up.
Oh good deal on your end. I more meant it looked like he would seamlessly slot back in at Atletico and hit the ground running.
Since rejoining Atletico in 2017, he has 19 goals in 81 matches. Don’t think there’s ‘still a player in there’ at this point.
Arsenal much better than Wolves? Not sure about that. In terms of club prestige obviously, but more likely to do something at Wolves than Arsenal presently.
A lot of the financials are now so out of whack that selling unwanted players is hard, or basically next to impossible, it's actually pretty respectable of Costa to be willing to terminate it from his side. Man Utd would be begging for numerous players to do that, though maybe not since the talks of are they want to extend Lingard for ... reasons?
By all accounts RM basically paid Everton to take James off them, and Spurs are paying next to nothing of Bales wages. Man Utd suffered similar with Sanchez.
He’s done. He’s nowhere near the player he was and I always doubted his age due to how frigging old he looked at 21 
He only had 6 months left on his contract and will get a big fat signing on fee wherever he goes. He's going to benefit from this financially in a big way.
hope he comes back to the Prem
we haven't had a troll like that since.. well the last time he was here
we haven't had a troll like that since.. well the last time he was here
Exactly, nothing to commend there
Wolves are not going to do anything as a club that Costa would care about. Top 4 or a cup at best.
And yeah, I was talking about Arsenal being a bigger club, not a better side currently.
Might do for Chelsea given how their style of play seems to mean they can only score from crosses at the moment. Him and Giroud might be the answer!
I think Wolves makes more sense too, even if an initial short term deal. Strong Portuguese speaking culture in place. Glaring hole for him to fill. He'll probably destroy any semblance of harmony the Arsenal squad have left if he rocks up there.
Surprised this isn't in the transfer forum.
Only a matter of time before we're linked. Horrible bastard but we've had a few of those play for us.
Only a matter of time before we're linked. Horrible bastard but we've had a few of those play for us.