Chelsea striker Diego Costa has been heavily linked with a switch to the Chinese Super League and Antonio Conte is believed to be making plans should the 28-year-old choose to leave this summer.<\/p>\n
The Blues previously rejected rumors of a Chinese club making a lucrative bid for Costa during the winter transfer window.<\/p>\n
Costa has been in superb form this season, netting 17 goals in 26 Premier League appearances.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview with Telefoot<\/em>, Costa\u00a0has said he would consider playing for Marseille but insists he is happy at Chelsea.<\/p>\n “It’s true that Marseille has a great project and is growing,” he said.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m very happy with Chelsea, but in football, everything can happen, and if we have to change, France is a place where I’ve never been to I never played, so why not.”<\/p>\n The Blues are currently 10 points clear of Tottenham at the top of the table with the end of the campaign fast approaching.<\/p>\n Chelsea are believed to make bids for their former player Romelu Lukaku or French striker Antoine Griezmann in case Costa opts to leave the London club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea striker Diego Costa has been heavily linked with a switch to the Chinese Super League and Antonio Conte is believed to be making plans should the 28-year-old choose to leave this summer. The Blues previously rejected rumors of a Chinese club making a lucrative bid for Costa during the winter transfer window. Costa has been in superb form this season, netting 17 goals in 26 Premier League appearances. In a recent interview with Telefoot, Costa\u00a0has said he would consider playing for Marseille but insists he is happy at Chelsea. “It’s true that Marseille has a great project and is growing,” he said. “I\u2019m very happy with Chelsea, but in … Continue reading “Chelsea striker Diego Costa fuels transfer rumours with latest comments”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[197,257],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-chelsea","tag-diego-costa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}