Paris Saint - Germain have confirmed the signing of Chelsea defender David
Luiz on a five - year deal.
The defeat reignited the Premier League title race with Chelsea's lead over Tottenham cut to four points and Neville and Carragher, who highlighted some poor defending from the Blues and in particular David
Luiz on Monday Night Football, have questioned the timing of the announcement, saying Terry could still be needed for the run - in.
His former club Paris Saint Germain, Real Madrid and both Milan clubs — AC and Inter, have already made it known that they would be willing to take
Luiz on loan, if Chelsea were looking for such a deal.
Barcelona are unlikely to spend big to recruit a rising star in the New Year, but they could probably do with
Luiz on a short - term loan.
Came off for Filipe
Luiz on 77 minutes, and the Chelsea left - back made Brazil look instantly more secure.
«I didn't comment on David
Luiz on Marouane Fellaini, I didn't comment (Danny) Rose on (Henrikh) Mkhitaryan, I'm not going to comment on this one.»
After failing in their bid to sign the Senegalese international, Chelsea swooped for both Marcos Alonso and
Luiz on the final day of the window, with the latter arriving in a # 30m deal from Paris Saint - Germain, as noted in the same report.
Chelsea got David
Luiz on Transfer Deadline Day as Blues manager Antonio Conte was able to bolster his defensive ranks just in time.
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez is reportedly keen on signing Chelsea and Brazil ace David
Luiz on loan for the Magpies in the January transfer window as long as Conte's side are willing to see the player leave the club on a temporary basis.
That will be music to the ears of Chelsea fans as with Gary Cahill and David
Luiz on the wrong side of 30, Antonio Conte will arguably need to start thinking about rebuilding that part of his squad and he has previously been linked with making a # 53m bid for Koulibaly last summer, as per The Telegraph.
And just as the pressure started to build Chelsea were reduced to 10 men after an awful studs up tackle by
Luiz on Kolasinac.
Not exact matches
Brazil's Supreme Court early
on Thursday rejected former president
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's plea to avoid prison while he appeals a corruption conviction.
Brazilian stocks jumped
on Thursday after a court ruled that former president
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva can be sent to prison while he appeals a corruption conviction.
Other major English clubs have made big mistakes in letting world beaters go, Paul Pogba (Man United), Kevin De Bruyne (Chelsea) and Nemanja Matić (Chelsea) having to be bought back at # 21m after being part
on the transfer to land David
Luiz.
Arsenal are reportedly considering a # 30million transfer swoop
on Chelsea for defender David
Luiz, who has also been linked with Manchester United and Real Madrid.
With former Premier League and La Liga stars like David
Luiz, Angel Di Maria and Zlatan playing some of the best football of their respective careers in France, PSG appear
on track to win yet another Ligue 1 title this season.
Arsene Wenger appaarently sees
Luiz as an option to improve
on his side's poor defensive displays this season, with the likes of Shkodran Mustafi failing to perform consistently despite some decent showings.
The Gunners were strongly linked with potential moves to sign Jonny Evans and David
Luiz, with both moves seeming to break down despite enquiries
on deadline day, and we will now have to settle
on our current options, thanks to the 11PM deadline having passed.
Do you remember just over a year ago when Chelsea beat City at the Etihad and Sergio Aguero tried to break David
Luiz's leg and there was yet another riot
on the pitch that ended with Aguero and Fernandino getting sent off.
Plastic PSG enter the market for another statement signing - spending a world record # 50million fee for a defender
on David
Luiz (that's a lot of oil), while already having # 35million legendary defender, club captain & Marquinhos» idol - Thiago Silva at the club.
The Premier League pair missed out
on two rumoured targets this week, when AC Milan moved quickly to acquire both Carlos Bacca and
Luiz Adriano.
Sky Sports pundit Paul Merson has insisted that he believes Chelsea defender David
Luiz is
on his way out of Stamford Bridge in the New Year.
The hopes and dreams of the Brazilian nation once again lie
on the shoulders of the Selecao today, as
Luiz Felipe Scolari's men take
on Colombia in the second 2014 FIFA World Cup quarter final.
I still can't believe people defend him when he's a terrible person that ruined
Luiz's leg, after stomping
on him in 13/14 at the Etihad
With Keylor Navas seemingly failing to entirely convince despite playing his part in Madrid's recent trophy haul, Kepa has been lined up while with Pepe departing over the summer,
Luiz would fill a void left there as he remains
on the fringes after his recent fallout with Antonio Conte, as per the Express.
Luiz is ball playing Centre Back who drives forwarded till half line and take Centre Back line pushing forward which allows Wing Backs
on their front foot hence ultimately they become fully attacking unit of Alonso, Moses, Hazard, Pedro and Costa... But Service being provided to them from back....
Chelsea strengthened in defence this summer by signing Antonio Rudiger, but have also relied
on youngster Andreas Christensen as David
Luiz has largely lost his place in the first - team.
Tony Gale: «Arsenal paid the price for stalling» Meanwhile at Chelsea... 34mill for «defender» David
Luiz 25mill for Marcos Alonso more money spent
on inferior players....
England manager Roy Hodgson has told Paris St - Germain president Nasser Al - Khelaifi he was crazy to spend # 40m
on defender David
Luiz.
Cahill and
Luiz have both been missing with hamstring injuries while Florent Malouda will train
on Friday night after a hamstring problem of his own.
Forget mediocre buys, heres a list within a very tight budget as we know our deluded board and management like: Fabian Schar — # 8m to replace Mertesacker Ron Vlaar — # 8m to finally replace Vermalean Tyrone Mings — # 6m plus back to Ipswich
on loan Nigel De Jong — # 5m (out of contract 6 months) to replace Flamini Moussa Sissoko — # 15m to replace Arteta and Diaby Marcel Brozovic — # 6m to replace Rosicky Yevhen Konoplyanka — # 5m (out of contract 6 months) to replace Cazorla and Podolski Dennis Praet — # 10m back up and successor for Ozil
Luiz Adriano — # 12m (out of contract 6 months) to replace Yaya Sanogoal
The defending champions currently sit in fourth, and thanks to a thread
on Reddit, we have picked 15 names that would have been more worthwhile inclusions than
Luiz.
That's obviously unlikely to happen as all eyes will now be
on Luiz as he looks to silence his critics and prove that he's returned a much better player compared to the one that left in 2014.
Luiz secured a return to the Blues this week in a deal worth # 34m, just two years
on from when he left the club to join Paris Saint - Germain for a reported fee of # 40m, according to BBC Sport.
As the Team of the Year was announced at the Ballon d'Or awards
on Monday night, many fans, players and pundits alike were shocked to see PSG star David
Luiz included despite achieving little else than making an inflated move to PSG from Chelsea.
The Argentine international was shown a straight red after a dreadful late lunge
on David
Luiz, which in turn sparked a late melee between the two sets of players.
Luiz ended last season with Chelsea having fallen back in the pecking order under Jose Mourinho and was sold to PSG for # 50m just before he embarked
on a World Cup campaign
on home soil where his shortcomings were painfully exposed.
The Brazil international defender David
Luiz returned to Chelsea from Paris Saint - Germain
on transfer deadline day.
«For sure, that was a foul (by Sanchez
on Luiz).
Luiz did however, win eight trophies over the course of two - seasons at PSG and highlighted this point in his farewell message to fans of the French giants via his official Instagram account
on Thursday.
The Blues released a statement
on their official website confirming the transfer of
Luiz from PSG.
Van Dijk has been one of the best in the Premier League in recent years and could be an upgrade
on Luiz, who has been linked by the Daily Express with a transfer to rivals Manchester United.
David
Luiz returned to Chelsea
on transfer deadline day but his transfer received a mixed response.
Indeed, Silva and
Luiz were both named in the Ligue 1 team of the year, while Marquinhos will look back
on a campaign where he has managed just 18 starts in the top flight this season.
However, he has struggled to break into the first team ahead of Silva and his compatriot David
Luiz, and instead has been pushed out to right - back or forced to watch
on from the bench.
Luiz was shown a straight red card for a reckless challenge
on Seak Kolasinac during Chelsea's 1 - 1 draw with Arsenal yesterday.
Chelsea posted a picture of their latest signing
on their official Twitter page along with the caption, «Welcome back, David
Luiz!»
As reported in the Daily Mail, Conte said, «I don't like to comment
on refereeing decisions, it is in the past, but now the only thing I can tell you is it is very important to see what happened before the David
Luiz tackle.»
Referee Michael Oliver had no doubts
on this occasion and showed him a straight red card which will now earn
Luiz a three - game suspension.
Lyon's Mouctar Diakhaby is one of the names Chelsea have been scouting, according to the Mail, so it may really be that the club have given up
on Luiz rediscovering his best form.