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Costa, Keane, Vieira: Premier League's hardest ever XI

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Batten down the hatches, folks, Diego Costa is on his way back to the Premier League. The former Chelsea hitman looks set to complete a sensational move to Wolves as he aims for one last dance in the English top-flight.

Just when you thought the summer had given everything it has to give, the transfer merry-go-round coughs up one of the most unexpected moves of the season.

The no-nonsense, all-action Spaniard spent most of his initial English spell in a huff, never far from a tantrum and always in the headlines for some sort of controversy.

However, his brand of football worked a treat as he caused many a nightmare for Premier League defenders. But where does he fit in the pantheon of the Premier League’s supposed ‘hard men’?

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