ANALYSIS: Guess Who Called Diego Costa?

By Uchenna Obaji

Diego Costa's saga continues to unfold with many shades of ugliness as the end of summer transfer window draws closer. A simple obedience to an instruction from his employer would have saved him the agony of looking for love where none exist.

Jose Mourinho is no one's ideal lover especially when you're defiantly violating an instituted authority; he would help you destroy the bridges so that you won't find your way back from rebellion. Then he would laugh at you knowing that you weren't smart to have believed that he truly loved you.

Diego Costa's situation at the moment is a textbook description of how arrogance could make a villain out of a global hero. The moment you ascend the cliff and failed to be humble, you could find yourself on the ground, looking for love.

Diego Costa's search for love since he embraced rebellion few months ago has terribly gone wrong. From his holiday with a dog on a jet ski in a lonely beach, to playing a clown at children concert in Brazil, Costa is hungry for joy. For love. Or something that looks like either of them.

The holidays are over,  footballers have returned to their clubs, fighting for shirt to represent their national team in Russia next summer, but Costa is stuck in  Brazil, fighting loneliness and depression, which were bared in the unsolicited interview he granted about a week ago.

Diego Costa needs love and Jose Mourinho is offering one, howbeit, very fake love. It isn't a love that would make him fight for shirt with Lukaku at Old Trafford. No. Not that type of love. It is the one that would help him get lost in rebellion.

If Diego Costa has been looking for a clearest indication that he is wallowing at the wrong side of history, then, José Mourinho's call says it all. When Mourinho is the only one calling you, them you're probably doing something that's very wrong.