Atletico Madrid have drawn up a detailed physical plan to get Diego Costa into peak fitness, in the event they finally sign him from Chelsea.

The 28-year-old striker’s future remains up in the air as he is exiled from the English champions’ squad with a legal process between they player’s camp and club having been initiated with former club, Atletico monitoring closely.

But Atletico remain hopeful of signing him before the end of the window and are now willing to go to just over £40m to secure the transfer Costa himself so desperately wants.

Per The Independent’s Miguel Delaney, Costa “desperately wants” to return to his former club having become an exile at Stamford Bridge and Atleti have already detailed a fitness plan for him assuming he makes the move.

Sky Sports News’ Kaveh Solhekol previously reported Los Rojiblancos were not willing to offer anywhere near Chelsea’s £50 million asking price for the 28-year-old

The Spanish international would not actually to be able to play for the Liga club until January due to their ban on registering players, so they have prepared a detailed fitness regime to get him back to optimum condition until then, under their highly-respected physical trainer Oscar ‘El Profe’ Ortega.

Part of it would see Costa do intensive individual sessions with Ortega, who has been responsible for Atletico ‘s famed fitness under manager Diego Simeone