and we know he wont go unless AM pay enough
so I predict he will rot in brazil unless he agree to let AC pick him up suddenly

I thought I read somewhere the Chinese league got teams wanna pull out due to no money to pay salary to players..

dude, buy back Ramires please !!! 

AC Milan rather go for Bellotti. Bellotti + Andre Silva best riao.

Costa? Damn pattern. Die die wan force a move, and only to Atleti. Wat the feck is wrong with this guy. Like really x bagi muka Conte and the club. This guy is toxic.

Btw u guys oso missing a point, can Atleti buy? I thought transfer ban? Or can buy but can't register? If lidat then is buy dy then loan out.

AM can buy but can't register him until January next year

Oh nooo! Really happy chine team want him and paid 25m for him.

Want to force move but want to go to Atletico Madrid only. And that club refuse to pay the value Chelsea want.

From my point of view Costa is the one who at losing side here. Chelsea can continue fine him for refusing to report back and Costa can continue stays at Brazil but for sure no World Cup for him. Idk if Costa actually realised about this.

Out-of-favour Chelsea striker Diego Costa has launched an angry broadside against both the club and manager Antonio Conte, accusing them of treating him like a "criminal".

Costa, 28, has been informed by Conte that he has no future at the club and having been frozen out of the first-team squad, the Brazil-born Spain international has gone home to Brazil.

He says Chelsea "want to sell me to China", but has reiterated his desire to return to former club Atletico Madrid, who are under a transfer ban until January.

"I am waiting for Chelsea to set me free. I didn't want to leave. I was happy. When the manager does not want you, you have to go," Costa said in an interview published in Monday's Daily Mail.

"In January, things happened with the coach. I was on the brink of renewing my contract and they put the brakes on it. I suspect the manager was behind it. He asked for that to happen.

"They gave me a week extra off, but since then it's fines all the way. They want me training with the reserves. I am not going to do that. I am not a criminal and I am not in the wrong here.

"So, if they need to fine me, let them fine me."

Costa was particularly scathing in his criticism of Conte, who led Chelsea to the Premier League title in his first season at Stamford Bridge.

"I respect him as a great coach. He has done a good job and I can see that. But as a person -- no," said Costa, who was speaking in his hometown of Lagarto in northeastern Brazil.

"He is not a coach who is very close with his players. He is very distant. He doesn't possess charisma."

Faced with Atletico's inability to recruit players, Costa said he would rather spend a year not playing than join another club.

"My desire is to go to Atletico," he said. "I have rejected other offers. They want to sell me to China or other teams. If I'm off, I'm going to the club I want to go to, not the club that's paying the most.

"I am open to being a year in Brazil without playing, even if Chelsea fine me for a year and don't pay me. I'll come back stronger. If I was in the wrong, I'd go back now and do as they say."

Chelsea opened their title defence in disastrous fashion on Saturday, losing 3-2 at home to Burnley, with Costa's replacement Alvaro Morata coming off the bench to score.

Diego Costa reveals Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has called him while in Chelsea exile

Diego Costa has revealed that he has been in direct contact with former manager Jose Mourinho while in exile in Brazil since his relationship with Chelsea soured at the end of last season.

The Brazilian-born Spaniard was informed by managed Antonio Conte at the end of last season via text that he was no longer needed by the club, despite his goals firing the Blues to the Premier League title in the Italian’s first season in charge.

That has left Costa looking for another club, which he wants to be Atletico Madrid, despite him insisting he was happy at Stamford Bridge before the breakdown of his relationship with Conte.

The 28-year-old is being fined for every week he refuses to return to the club to train as he doesn’t want to join the reserves and has revealed that Manchester United manager Mourinho has called him directly during his time in Brazil.

“Jose has called me, direct to my phone, just to check I am OK and to see how I am,” Costa told the Daily Mail. “He wished me good luck.

“I never had any problems with Jose, we have a strong relationship. Everyone was very sad when things didn't work out in the end for him at Chelsea.”

Costa also reveal that his current Chelsea teammates were keeping in contact with him and constantly telling him how much they missed having him in the changing room.

“They send messages saying ‘I miss you’ and that they love me,” he added.

“I am always talking with the boys — particularly Cesc Fabregas, David Luiz and Willian. We have banter over WhatsApp.”

BREAKING: @ChelseaFC expect @diegocosta to return to the club, train + get match fit, as per the terms of his contract.

Wtf?

and we seems to forgot. where is loic remy and baba rahman?

Chelsea forward Diego Costa's refusal to return to training is "disgraceful", says former Arsenal striker Ian Wright.

The 28-year-old, who is currently in his native Brazil, said he has been treated like a "criminal" and wants to join former club Atletico Madrid.

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte texted Costa in June to say he was not in his plans, but Costa says he has been told to return and train with the reserves.

"I don't understand how players can get away with that behaviour," said Wright.

Spain striker Costa was given extra time off by Chelsea last month, but now claims he is being fined for his absence and is considering legal action or seeing out the remaining year of his contract unpaid in Brazil.

The Blues expect Costa to return immediately, resume training, get himself match fit and put himself in contention for selection, because he is still contracted to the club.

"It's disgraceful the way he is behaving," Wright told BBC Radio 5 live's The Monday Night Club.

"Surely he's got to come back here, so if the manager changes his mind he's there. He's earning a fortune at Chelsea. Can Atletico Madrid even afford him?"

Costa, who last played for Chelsea in the FA Cup final in May, joined the Blues from Atletico Madrid in 2014 and has won two Premier League titles and the League Cup with the London club.

In January, he was left out of the side for an away match at Leicester after he was involved in a dispute with a fitness coach.

It followed reports of an offer from China that would have been worth £30m a year in salary.

"Why won't they let me go if they don't want me?" he told the Daily Mail on Monday.

"In January, things happened with the coach. I was on the brink of renewing my contract and they put the brakes on it. I suspect the manager was behind it. He asked for that to happen.

"His ideas are very fixed and clear. I have seen the sort of person he is. He has his own opinion and that will not change."

'Show us the text'

"Antonio Conte has told me by message that I do not follow at Chelsea and that's it. Conte said he did not count on me for next season," said Costa in June.

That came after the Italian manager had sent a text to his players wishing them a good holiday and telling them to stay fit and Costa replied in a jokey way.

But Wright says he cannot understand why Chelsea would want to get rid of a forward who scored 20 goals in 35 Premier League games to help the Blues win the Premier League last season.

"Something has happened," added Wright, who played 33 times for England.

"For them to want to get rid of that kind of player, I can't understand how that's come about. I can't understand why you would get rid of definitely 20 goals? It doesn't make sense to me."

Following the text message exchange with Conte, Costa said "I love to live in Madrid", despite Atletico being banned from signing players until the January transfer window.

"Why does it seem he is holding all the cards? He genuinely wants to go, but only wants to go to Atletico Madrid," added Wright.

"If Chelsea want to get rid of him and get bids for a player they don't want, they're not going to take them?

"I would like to see the text. Show us the text. Then I don't blame him, because I would have the hump over that."

Costa said: "I have not deleted the message. If people accuse me of lying, I can show them. It was clear, saying that he didn't count on me and wishing me the best for the future. Full stop."

Former Chelsea and Republic of Ireland midfielder Andy Townsend says Conte telling Costa he is not wanted at the club is like Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham telling their star forwards not to return.

"Something else is going on," he said. "There's no logic from Chelsea's point of view to get rid of him.

"You don't send him a text and say 'off you pop, we don't want you to come back'. They don't do that. They don't just turn round with one of their main components and say 'go and find a new club'.

"It's like Jose Mourinho saying to Zlatan Ibrahimovic before he was injured, Arsene Wenger saying to Alexis Sanchez, Tottenham saying to Harry Kane 'don't come back'. It's the hardest thing to do, score goals, and you cannot afford to be that flippant with players like that."