Personally I'm going with Jimmy Floyd for both questions. His goal record was very impressive overall, his shooting was ferocious and he played in the pre-Roman era which was a lesser side than Diego played in.

Jimmy Floyd

Yeah gotta agree. Also add in the off field and on field antics of costa and jimmy gets the nod. Oddly enough both played for atletico too...

Nick it's weird how many of our strikers have played for Atletico either before or after they played for us. In both Torres and Costa's case it was both before and after they played here. Morata as well actually if you consider that he was an Ateltico youth.

Diego Costa was a beast in his prime, a nightmare for defenders. I liked his fighting spirit, had a great connection with Cesc and worked well Hazard too. Some of his antics were a bit too much to handle explaining why he's not here now.

To be fair, I'm too young to remember Jimmy Floyd, only saw his last season for us. From the videos I've seen, he looked quality.

Great finisher from anywhere over the half way line near enough tablighi, only issue was maybe a bit lazy, but had surprising pace and strength and could find the net from anywhere.

Leeds he scored 34 in 69
Atletico 24 in 34
Chelsea 70 in 136.

Unreal stats

Hell, even 23 in 58 for borough is a great return as he aged

Jimmy had a piledriver of a shot. It surprises me that he doesn't feature in a list of the top fastest shots ever in football.

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 7 minutes ago
Great finisher from anywhere over the half way line near enough tablighi, only issue was maybe a bit lazy, but had surprising pace and strength and could find the net from anywhere.

Leeds he scored 34 in 69
Atletico 24 in 34
Chelsea 70 in 136.

Unreal stats
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Pretty impressive reading, sounds like someone we're in need of now with our current flops that we've had up front.

Spurtle

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Hasselbaink was a fackin beast with his shot, would take keepers arms off

As kids on the park there was always someone yelling his name if they'd smashed one as hard as they could.

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Loved Hasselbaink, even when he played for Atleti. Man, could he spank a shot.

He was a bit of a late bloomer, and there was also quite a number of tip-top strikers around at the time, but still I think it's slightly unfortunate that in his prime he never got a shot at playing for one of the truly elite sides of his day.

comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 1 minute ago
Loved Hasselbaink, even when he played for Atleti. Man, could he spank a shot.

He was a bit of a late bloomer, and there was also quite a number of tip-top strikers around at the time, but still I think it's slightly unfortunate that in his prime he never got a shot at playing for one of the truly elite sides of his day.
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Did play for Boro tho tbf

JFH Hands down, it's not even a debate for me!

Was there anywhere we couldn't score from?

Hasselbaink for me. I wouldn't consider either of them as top echelon elite strikers, but Jimmy was far more likable on a personal level.

Even at his best Costa was just a poor man's Drogba to me. Besides a desire to bully defenders he had nothing about him that was special, nothing where you thought 'only Diego can do that', Hasselbaink at least had his piledriver of a shot

JFH way better than Costa but Diego was there when we needed hin alone, back then when JFH wasnt scoring then Eidur Gudjohnsen was-what a partnership that was

comment by Devil D.A. (U6522)
posted 53 minutes ago
Hasselbaink for me. I wouldn't consider either of them as top echelon elite strikers, but Jimmy was far more likable on a personal level.

Even at his best Costa was just a poor man's Drogba to me. Besides a desire to bully defenders he had nothing about him that was special, nothing where you thought 'only Diego can do that', Hasselbaink at least had his piledriver of a shot
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Yup, it's difficult to think of many others that striked the ball quite as hard as he did. Alex was another one with a ballistic missile for a shot

And for the record nobody here has gone for Costa yet. Jimmy Floyd by a landslide victory then.

yep but my favourite striker for Chelsea was Hernan Crespo would love to have had him longer, he was dangerous with almost every touch of the ball.

Superb, he's up there with Roberto Carlos, Adriano & Hulk in terms of power striking a ball. Such a beautiful sight to watch

Easy this, JFH all the way and every way, best striker i ve seen in a Chelsea shirt, always had a goal in him,

comment by vavarising (U21731)
posted 14 hours, 31 minutes ago
yep but my favourite striker for Chelsea was Hernan Crespo would love to have had him longer, he was dangerous with almost every touch of the ball.
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Yeah, I laugh when opposition fans label him a flop. Guy was phenomenal. Such a shame the personal issues he had while over here.