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David Luiz back at Chelsea

emery also told him he wouldn't be first choice at PSG so thats why he left. funny old life. I suspect it will be a very slow start to the season for chelsea.

 
this has annoyed me no end. Why oh why do we sell so happily to our rivals?.As for Luiz at Arsenal... I can already tell you now, he is going to slap in a 30 yard screamer against us and even though I can preempt it already, I still wont be mentally prepped for it.

 
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i can respect someone who is 32 not wanting to be 4th choice and wanting to go where he will play. he has already sat out one season and probably only has 2 at most at premier league level left in him. I won't dog him for it. He's been part of several great chelsea sides and had more ups than downs. 

 
jrshugo said:
this has annoyed me no end. Why oh why do we sell so happily to our rivals?.As for Luiz at Arsenal... I can already tell you now, he is going to slap in a 30 yard screamer against us and even though I can feel already, I still wont be mentally prepped for it.
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Am i the only one that doesn't really get this "never sell to rival" mentality? I mean for the top/crucial player's and the young lads with potential to hit that level absolutely but anyone below is fair game under the right circumstances for me. People will say "United don't do us a favour back" okay then bid £40m for Smalling and see how long that statement stays true. I remember when the Baka/United rumour surfaced and someone gave me the "we shouldn't help out a rival argument" umm mate that wouldn't be helping them.

I was personally delighted that we got £40m for a heavily declined Matic and i spent a season hoping United were going to give us even more for Willian.

 
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Totally disagree. He is not a good defender and always has a mistake in him. I would be very happy to see him in the Arsenal back line.

Not at all surprised at this news. There have always been rumours that Frank and Luiz don't get on.
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Haven't heard that before, would be interested to see who has reported that

 
Big bust up with Frank, from a player who should be leading by example for the young ones.  Good move by Frank to put down his marker as to where he stands with people who are not fully on board with what he is striving to achieve.

 
Arsenal won't solve any of the their problems with David Luiz, he isn't that much of a great defender he is good with the ball but he makes many mistakes every season.

 
In the Net said:
Big bust up with Frank, from a player who should be leading by example for the young ones.  Good move by Frank to put down his marker as to where he stands with people who are not fully on board with what he is striving to achieve.
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Nobody knows that. Maybe he just wants first team football and Frank couldn't guarantee that. Does that necessarily mean a bust-up?

 
For whatever reason he's leaving us, all in all I regret to see him go. He's been part of our squad during some successful seasons. Not a run of the mill, colourless player by any means! Hopefully our young ones will be fine without his experience. And his runup for his penalty in the CL final still scares the crap out of me.

Thanks for everything David, be happy but not successful at Arsenal.

 
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A really strange transfer deal, I could understood why Cech choose Arsenal at the time, but this time it doesn't make much sense, I'd say a conflict behind the scene between Luiz and someone in charge. We will know more about it in days to come. He's still a good player, but as long as Rudiger coming back in the next month or so, I don't think we will miss him that much for most of the season. I'd rather Arsenal sign him than a proper defender, Luiz and Mustafi are what dreams are made of!

 
The game against Salzburg summed up Luiz for me, looked good when we was playing well then gave away a corner through casualness then lost his marker and conceded the goal that started a mini fight back.

He will be a loss given our current situation with transfers but he’s chosen to move to Arsenal rather than staying and proving to Frank he should be number one, so I haven’t got much sympathy. 

Frank probably wasn’t happy with the goals we’ve conceded in pre-season and asked for more focus and less concentration lapses from Luiz.

He’s probably chosen Arsenal because he walks straight into their team and can stay in London where his business interests are.

He’s done what’s best for him, what’s best for us is to realise it’s far from the end of world and back Frank and then next summer we can add to the squad and hopefully start challenging again.

 
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evissy said:
Blue Exile said:
Not sure how anybody can sympathise with him, seeing the entitled reaction he has coughed up? 
I do scratch my head sometimes when we call for a together, harmonious and young team, then Luiz pulls this stunt - and it is him pulling it, and he then has people on his side.
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So you know how things have gone back at Chelsea? Enlighten us please.
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And you do?

It’s called joining dots.

He was fine signing a new contract just a couple of months ago, was also on Twitter proclaiming Mason Mount to be ‘his boy’, just last week, now all of sudden he wants a transfer, and is happy to join one of our biggest rivals. So what went wrong? Can only be a difference of opinion to how things are going to be run this year I’d say.

so enlighten us on your inside knowledge then?

 
Seems to be big friends with Willian, who was also falling out with conte when he was here. Wouldn't be suprised to see something similar with him in Jan. 

 
Got to say Luiz was one of the players I was hoping to see shipped out this summer (before the Transfer Ban was announced) - his inconsistency and lack of motivation in some games last season started to really grate. Then he had a sh*t pre-season and seemed oblivious to the fact he was supposed to be impressing a new Boss and fighting for his spot. The manner of his leaving has revealed a lot about his character, he knows the Premiership and knows us Fans won't like him going to such close rivals but he's prepared to wreck his reputation by leaving two days before the Season starts.

 
evissy said:
He is an okay defender as he showed with Conte. Prem team of the season back then. However he has his own way of thinking and it is not always good for the team.

This leaves us with Rudiger, who is our main man by a country mile, Christensen who is okay, Zouma who is a big body and an able defender and Tomori who is untested. We are pretty thin at the back.

If Frank thinks we can cope without Luiz then we just have to live with it and trust the man.
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I think Conte's system with three CBs made things easier for Luiz and gave him more freedom to do what he's really good at, just like it did for Alonso. Once we got back to four at the back, his poor defensive skillset and erratic desicion making were once again on display.

We're going to miss his experience, leadership and ability to bring the ball from the back and spread it around but we've survived without better players and better men than David Luiz. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, geezer.

 
Argo said:
Am i the only one that doesn't really get this "never sell to rival" mentality? I mean for the top/crucial player's and the young lads with potential to hit that level absolutely but anyone below is fair game under the right circumstances for me. People will say "United don't do us a favour back" okay then bid £40m for Smalling and see how long that statement stays true. I remember when the Baka/United rumour surfaced and someone gave me the "we shouldn't help out a rival argument" umm mate that wouldn't be helping them.

I was personally delighted that we got £40m for a heavily declined Matic and i spent a season hoping United were going to give us even more for Willian.
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Totally agree, what the fxck is with all this Luiz love in, Luiz is old news and Frank wants to move in a direction with young players, which many have said they want, so moving him on is no issue, couldn't give two shxts him going to Arsenal, infact it might be fun watching.

 
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