Atletico Madrid have agreed a deal to sign Diego Costa from Chelsea in January subject to personal terms and a medical.
Costa will now have medical in Madrid and discuss personal terms. Chelsea will not be subsiding his wages after he has signed for Atletico.
Atletico are banned from registering players until January so Costa will not be able to play for them until then.
“Chelsea Football Club has today agreed terms with Atlético Madrid for the transfer of Diego Costa,” said the statement. “The transfer will be subject to the agreement of personal terms and a medical.”
A further statement from Atlético confirmed Costa has been given permission to travel to Spain for his medical and to discuss personal terms.
“Atlético de Madrid and Chelsea have reached an initial agreement for the transfer of Diego Costa,” it said. “The agreement is pending the formalisation of the contract between our club and the Spanish international forward. The English club has authorised Diego Costa to travel to Madrid in the coming days to undergo medical tests and settle his contract with our club.”
Costa’s last game for Chelsea was May’s FA Cup final loss to Arsenal, when he scored the last of his 59 goals.
Chelsea included Costa in their submitted Premier League squad list last month in order to give the Spain international a theoretical path back into the first team, but he was omitted from their Champions League squad to avoid him becoming ineligible for Atletico in the competition, and there never appeared to be a realistic prospect that he would play under manager Antonio Conte again.
Costa joined Chelsea from Atletico for £32m in the summer of 2014 and won two Premier League titles at Stamford Bridge, finishing as the club’s top scorer in each of his three full seasons. But he never hid his dissatisfaction with life in England and pushed for a move back to Atletico on several occasions.
Diego Costa was dropped by Conte in January following a training-ground argument and a lucrative bid from Chinese Super League club Tianjin Quanjian, and Chelsea proactively pursued an elite striker this summer — eventually signing Morata for the club-record £58m.
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