adminLONDON. — Diego Costa has trained on his own after his bust-up with Chelsea manager Antonio Conte.
The 28-year-old was involved in a heated exchange with Conte and Chelsea’s medical staff last Tuesday after he claimed to have suffered a back problem in training.
Costa didn’t travel with Chelsea’s squad for the 3-0 victory over Leicester City on Saturday, with Conte claiming that the reason behind the striker’s absence was due to injury.
But Costa is also the subject of an £80 million bid from Tianjin Quanjian, and the striker is reportedly keen to quit English football to join the Chinese Super League.
The Spain international has been offered tax-free salary worth £30m a year, plus a £5m signing-on fee, but Chelsea are adamant that the player will not be sold this month.
Yesterday, Costa was pictured training at Chelsea’s Cobham training base but was not joined by any of his team-mates in the session. — Reuters.
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