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Saturday, April 12, 2014
Chelsea's top transfer target Diego Costa standing between Jose Mourinho and Champions League history
The Brazil-born striker is the man the Blues want to solve
their striking woes this summer but he could yet halt Jose's route to
the final in Lisbon
Man in demand: Diego Costa celebrates another goal
The man Jose Mourinho wants to lead his Chelsea line stands between the Portuguese and his chance of making Champions League history.
Mourinho’s hope of becoming the first coach to win the trophy with three different clubs will hinge on whether his side can keep Atletico Madrid’s star striker Diego Costa quiet.
Chelsea have targeted the Brazilian-born Spain hitman
as their prime summer transfer target – and they are ready to activate
his £32million release clause at the end of the campaign.
But while the controversy over the eligibility of Thibaut Courtois – the Blues keeper on loan at Atletico – overshadowed the semi-final draw
that paired Mourinho’s men with Diego Simeone’s side, the contrast
between Costa, 25, and Chelsea’s No.9 could not be starker.
Shaun Botterill
Fallen star: Fernando Torres
The first leg in the Vicente Calderon will represent a chance
for Fernando Torres to return to his boyhood club, but the standing of the £50m forward has arguably never been lower since his move to west London in January 2011.
Dropped
for the first leg against Paris Saint-Germain, the Spaniard was sent on
after Demba Ba as Chelsea pulled off their last-gasp comeback at
Stamford Bridge to make it through to the last four.
While Costa
has bagged 33 goals so far this season, Torres’ paltry tally of nine
sums up why he is behind both Ba and Samuel Eto’o in the Blues’ pecking order.
Mourinho,
of course, suggested he has not got a “real” striker in his ranks, a
category into which Costa, all-action and the spearhead of Simeone’s
counter-attacking unit, unquestionably falls.
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