Diego Costa: Chelsea striker is dropped after dispute over fitness with coach

Striker Diego Costa has been let alone for the Chelsea squad to face Leicester on Saturday after a debate with a mentor over his wellness.

The Spain universal has not prepared for three days and has not gone for the Premier League pioneers' match with the champions (17:30 GMT).

The news comes in the midst of reports he is the subject of an offer to move to China that would be worth £30m a year.

Costa, 28, has scored 14 objectives and gave five helps this season.

Chelsea declined to remark.

It is comprehended Blues proprietor Roman Abramovich is not inspired by discharging him from his agreement, which lapses in 2019, and would not engage being compelled to do as such.

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Talking toward the beginning of January, Costa conceded he needed to leave Chelsea the previous summer, however said he was presently upbeat to remain.

Chelsea had been confident of concurring an agreement augmentation with the Brazil-conceived forward, however the debate with wellness mentor Julio Tous raises new questions.

Diego Costa's Premier League record

Diego Costa's record in Premier League matches for Chelsea

Costa joined the Blues for £32m in 2014, and was comprehended to be near an arrival to previous club Atletico Madrid after a troublesome 2015-16 battle.

"Did I need to go? Yes, yes, I was going to leave," he said not long ago. "In any case, not in view of Chelsea.

"There was one thing I needed to change for family reasons however it wasn't to be, and I keep on being upbeat here."

Quickly thereafter, director Antonio Conte said he trusted the striker was presently "totally engaged" on "battling for this club and for his shirt".

He included: "When Diego chose to stay, I wasn't concerned. He is demonstrating awesome tolerance in the correct route, in each snapshot of the amusement."

Midfielders Jon Mikel Obi and Oscar as of late left Chelsea for Chinese clubs - Tianjin TEDA and Shanghai SIPG individually - while ex-Manchester City and United striker Carlos Tevez joined Shanghai Shenhua from Boca Juniors in an arrangement purportedly worth £310,000 seven days.

Examination

Previous England midfielder Jermaine Jenas on BBC Radio 5 live

Everything has been smooth cruising for Chelsea up to now. Envision the characteristics of Manchester United supervisor Jose Mourinho, Liverpool director Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham. This is the thing that they have been sitting tight for.

Another offer from the Chinese market is by all accounts causing trouble of another top club. It's an enormous issue.

At the point when these circumstances emerge, the players are most likely supposing they'll go and do two years and after that return and play in the Premier League. Monetarily, they're not recently supporting their close family, they are supporting their entire family… aunties, uncles and cousins.

Despite everything i'd give Chelsea a decent possibility of winning the title regardless of the possibility that they lost him. With the lead they now have, I think they can adapt in the event that they supplant him.

You would prefer not to keep players at your club who would prefer not to be there. Yes, Costa has been an immense piece of Chelsea's prosperity however he's not Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo.

Everton winger Yannick Bolasie on BBC Radio 5 live

Diego Costa is an issue for any protector. He is solid, brisk and doesn't quit running. He sets the tone for the various Chelsea players.

It's startling the way the Chinese market is acting right at this point.