Chelsea transfer news: Everton made £66.4m bid to sign Diego Costa from Blues in final days of the summer transfer window
EVERTON made an incredible club-record attempt to sign Diego Costa from Chelsea, according to reports in Spain.
Ronald Koeman was desperate to bring in a frontman during the summer transfer window and the Dutchman was heavily linked with Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud.
And claim that The Toffees tabled an offer of £66.4million for the Spanish international, only for Koeman to be told the forward only had eyes for Atletico Madrid.
Despite Chelsea‘s keenness to offload the outcast, Costa refused to listen to any offer that was not from his old club.
That was despite the fact the La Liga giants currently have a transfer embargo placed on them until January.
However, he will not be able to play for Diego Simeone’s side until January when the transfer ban is lifted.
Everton were among a number of clubs interested in Costa, with Serie A side AC Milan also failing in an attempt to coax him to Italy.
Costa arrived in Madrid last week to finalise his move.
And he could be presented by his new employers against his old ones on Wednesday.
Chelsea travel to Atletico’s Wanda Metropolitano for a Champions League group clash.
Although they splashed out £150m in the summer, Everton failed to find an adequate replacement for Romelu Lukaku.
Their struggles have led to boss Ronald Koeman turning to previously out-of-favour Oumar Niasse to lead the line.
And he repaid the faith shown in him by scoring both goals in te 2-1 victory over Bournemouth on Saturday.
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