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| Ruud Gullit |
Former Chelsea manager
Ruud Gullit believes current boss Antonio Conte was unwise to text striker
Diego Costa to tell him he is no longer needed at Stamford Bridge.
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Diego
Costa, left, and Antonio Conte
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Costa
top-scored for the Blues with 20 Premier League goals last season as they
convincingly won the title in Conte’s first year in charge.
But
the relationship between the pair has soured, culminating in a message from the
Italian boss saying the Brazilian-born Spain international has no future with
the London club.
Gullit,
who famously fell out with Alan Shearer while in charge at Newcastle, was
critical of Conte and believes he has brought pressure on himself.
“It’s
all been instigated about what happened with Diego Costa,” Gullit told BBC Five
Live.
“It’s
a little bit strange that you hear at the end of the season that you’re not
welcome, and now he’s training somewhere in Brazil and that’s not good for
Costa, not good for the club, not good for anyone.
“(It
was) not very wise to do. You don’t do that. I think it is a mistake by Conte
and I hope that he has learnt from it. He still has the possibility to do
something about it, just go to him and say, ‘I’m sorry that I did it, you have
to come back, we will talk’.
“You
need to see each other face to face. You don’t need to like each other, but you
need to respect each other. If he doesn’t want to come back then you have to
find the best solution for the club.”
Gullit,
who was in charge of Chelsea between 1996 and 1998, has also backed proposals
to close the transfer window before the beginning of the season.
“The
thing that irritates me the most is that we all talk about transfers until the
1st of September,” he added.
“Do that before the season starts. I think it has to stop that you can still do transfers when you have already started with your competitions. It is a bad thing at the moment because we talk only about transfers.”
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