'From favelas to big life in China, Costa won't think twice before leaving Blues'

Everton winger Yannick Bolasie feels Chelsea striker Diego Costa's modest Brazilian roots mean he wouldn't think twice before moving to China to live the high life, if a big offer came by

Yannick Bolasie, Diego Costa

Diego Costa

Everton winger Yannick Bolasie feels Chelsea striker Diego Costa's modest Brazilian roots mean he wouldn't think twice before moving to China to live the high life, if a big offer came by.

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Yannick Bolasie

Reports claim the Brazilian-born Spanish striker, Costa, has been offered around £600,000 a week to play in the Chinese Super League, and due to this, he was left out of Chelsea's squad for Saturday's Premier League match at Leicester.

"It's frightening the way the Chinese market is acting right now. To put myself in Costa's shoes, it'd be like 'I've come from Brazil, I've been around Europe, I'm at Chelsea now, and I've got this Chinese team offering me this. From the favelas to something like this, it's incredible'. I don't think he'd think twice. He's just thinking, 'What's best for my family', and it looks like it's going to be the money," Bolasie told BBC Radio 5.

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