Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois has insisted that despite the Diego Costa incident everyone in Chelsea is very happy. Costa was involved in a training ground bust-up with manager Antonio Conte and didn’t feature in the Leicester City match after Conte decided to travel to King Power Stadium without his main striker. Conte later told the media that Costa was not playing due to a back injury.
Chelsea went on to win the match 3-0. Costa reportedly has received a big money offer from China. Recently, Chelsea sold Oscar to Shanghai SIPG but Courtois thinks that Costa’s absence will not reflect their performance.
He said, “Yes. We are very happy, everyone is happy at Chelsea at the moment.
“If you are in first place with a seven point lead, it helps. It helps that you are winning, it helps in the way you’re working and helps everybody accept the way of working.
“The mood is very good, everyone trains very hard during the week. When we win like Saturday, we get a free day on the Sunday and it is obviously a nice feeling. Diego didn’t train since Tuesday and the manager had a plan in his head.
“We trained very well and we knew what to do. We played the same against Bournemouth as well. I don’t think it [Diego’s absence] is something that will effect us, but I think we did well again, with the guys up front. That’s good for us.”
