Diego Costa reveals reason why he won’t return to Chelsea

Diego Costa has given Chelsea one condition the club must follow after which he will return to London and play football.

The striker has been in exile the entire summer after he claimed to have received a text message from Antonio Conte that he is no longer part of his plans.

The 28-year old took matters into his own hands and has not reported to training ever since, even after the season began. He claims the club are pushing for him to come only to so he trains with the reserves.

Insisting he did nothing wrong as well as playing victim in the matter, Costa tells the club, the Italian manager, Conte, will not give him a fair chance to play football at the top level.

If it was down to me I’d be playing. It’s already been one month. Holidays are good but it gets tiresome,

I was always meant to turn up with the group, but they were already saying that I’m going to have to come back and train with the reserves. I said that this was a lack of respect. We won the league and I haven’t done anything so serious to deserve being treated in that way.

It won’t be the same as before [between him and Conte], and we don’t know if the fight for the position will be fair. Because of me having exposed the [text] message I understand that he’ll be annoyed, so if I go back I have to see if things would be clean, just and correct.

That’s how I like things. If I go back now I don’t think it will be a fair situation. It won’t be an honest fight for a position [in the team].

Diego Costa, ESPN

Chelsea have Alvaro Morata and Michy Batshuayi as their only strikers going into next season and may be hoping to sing another attackers before the transfer deadline day with Andrea Belotti still linked to the club.

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