As Diego Costa finally rejoins Atletico Madrid from Chelsea in £53million deal, take a look back at striker’s best Premier League stats
DIEGO COSTA has finally rejoined Atletico Madrid in a £53million deal following his Chelsea exile.
The Spanish international, 28, has been training by himself in Brazil after being told he is no longer needed by Antonio Conte.
With no Chelsea return on the horizon, Costa has now moved on to the next stage of his career, rejoining the club he first left back in 2014.
While Costa was not always the easiest player to love, with his all-too-frequent bouts of rage muddying his Blues career, he was a truly remarkable striker.
The now ex-Chelsea star features in a host of impressive stat titbits, despite only playing at the club for three seasons.
For starters, he is one of only four players to score 20-plus goals in a Premier League season.
Costa is also one of only three, along with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Didier Drogba to do so in multiple campaigns.
On top of that, he is one of only seven players to reach the magic 50-goals tally in Chelsea's Premier League history.
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His 52 top-flight strikes see him sit behind only Eidur Gudjohnsen, Eden Hazard, Gianfranco Zola, Hasselbaink, Drogba and Frank Lampard.
In fact, since the start of the 2014-15 season - when he first arrived in England - only FOUR players have scored more Premier League goals.
Costa's 52 sit just behind Alexis Sanchez, Romelu Lukaku, Sergio Aguero and Harry Kane.
The Brazil-born striker even reached his half-century of Prem goals in the eighth-quickest time, behind the likes of Alan Shearer, Andy Cole and Ruud van Nistelrooy.
It's fair to say Costa is the second-most prolific Chelsea forward of the Premier League era, as he scored a goal every 145 minutes in the league during his time at Stamford Bridge.
Only Hernan Crespo can boast a better record - scoring every 141 minutes.
Costa even sits about the likes of Hasselbaink (150), Drogba (169) and Tore Andre Flo (183).
While Costa's time at Chelsea will now forever be remembered for it's controversial ending, his ability for the Blues will also never be in question.
All in all, Costa scored 52 Premier League goals in just 89 games, while winning the title in two of his three seasons in West London - to go with one League Cup.