Diego Costa Next Club Odds

Currently leading the way for the troublesome free agent is Wolverhampton Wanderers, a club who have struggled tremendously for goals in 2020/21 with and without the injury to star man, Raul Jimenez.

As of now, there is currently no return date for Jimenez from his horrific head clash with David Luiz, but there is a good chance the Mexican won't be seen on a pitch for some time, especially how he isn't even back in training just yet.

To solve these problems, the club are reportedly looking at Diego Costa, who, in stature and in play style, has many similarities to Wolves' current goalscoring hotshot. Indeed, Costa is just two inches smaller than Jimenez's 6ft 3 inch frame, whilst the Spain international is also a serious threat in the air and tends to do most of his work in and around the six-yard box, using his physical superiority.

Given how this transfer would be on a free, it makes sense for Wolves in the current climate. And, as the club are in desperate need for goals, why not try and sign a man who has 52 Premier League goals in 89 appearances and two Premier League medals for Chelsea?

At 32, perhaps the fiery striker still has it, but given how Wolves are currently massively underperforming down in 12th, they may not have a chance but to take this risk.

Odds for Costa to join Wolves are at 6/5 as the English club lead the way with the bookmakers.

As has been the case with many big names in the past decade, the glamourous move to a Chinese club is both one that is tough to turn down and one that perhaps makes a lot of sense given how Costa may not be wanted by many clubs competing for trophies in Europe.

The financial lure of China is sometimes too much to let go and as the offers won't fly in for the Spain international, it's fair to say this move is very likely. There are a bunch of Premier League clubs reportedly looking at Costa, as will the usual MLS giants, but at 32 and being far from the Spain national team, this move sort of makes sense for both parties.

At the same time, Costa netted just five goals in 30 appearances for Atletico last season and has scored just 19 in 81 appearances ever since rejoining the club from Chelsea in 2017. Now, odds for Diego Costa to go to China sit at 6/1, and it certainly a likely option and offers will no doubt be on the table for the ever-growing Chinese Super League.

The man once labelled as the 'perfect' fit for a Jose Mourinho side by many pundits is now being linked back to a Mourinho side that is extremely topsy-turvy and is yet to establish itself as a serious threat to the Premier League title, despite a resurgence in form in November and early December.

Costa and Mourinho worked together at Chelsea back in 2014/15 in the Portuguese's first season back at Stamford Bridge, and the striker was the main ingredient in wrapping up Mourinho's third Premier League title with the club and Chelsea's first in six years.

In his debut year in west London, Costa would bag 20 league goals under Mourinho's leadership in just 26 games as the club finished a comfortable eight points clear of second-place Manchester City.

And now, with the former Chelsea boss at Tottenham Hotspur where Harry Kane is looked at as the club's only out-and-out striker, singing Costa might just be a very smart decision as he will be free, be able to play in the League Cup and Europa League, and play as a backup for Kane whenever needed.

Odds for Costa to join Spurs are currently at 6/1 and it remains a likely option, given the history of player and manager and the lack of firepower up top for the north London side.

Whilst odds sit at 5/1 for Costa to return to Brazil, it's not quite a return that will be welcomed at all by most Brazilians. Costa is a Brazil native, who was born in the city of Lagarto and left the country in 2006 when he joined Braga in Portugal from Barcelona-SP, aged just 18.

The Brazilian-born would go onto represent his native country twice in 2013 before he controversially requested to switch allegiance to Spain, following his Spanish nationality grant in July of that year after being in the country for six years.

Within just a matter of months of leaving behind his boyhood country, Costa joined the then world champions Spain at the World Cup hosted in, where else, but Brazil. Needless to say, he was met with boos and obscene threats at every touch of the ball and it's fair to say that this will not disappear just because he doesn't get called up to the Spain squad anymore.

However, this is Costa and he probably doesn't really care regardless and whatever club goes in for him will get a man who has been one of Europe's very best for the past decade. Now, odds are at 5/1 for him to return to join any Brazilian team.

• Everton - 7/1
• West Ham United - 20/1
• Any MLS club - 25/1
• Chelsea - 33/1
• Fulham - 40/1
• Manchester United - 40/1