🇧🇷 David Luiz

[kobematabryant 400]

My best moment of David Luiz is when he scored that amazing Ronaldo-esque free kick against Basel in injury time, making it 2-1 in Europa League semi final.

[edetarod 2,155]

my memory of him will always be his celebration when Drogba scored the penalty

[xPetrCechx 13,571]

Knowledge of football = 0.

Not a straight replacement for mata, but it was a poor In/Out.

[xPetrCechx 13,571]

So 50 Mil Euro Or 50 Mil Pounds?

[LAB 1,030]

Not a straight replacement for mata, but it was a poor In/Out.

One simply can't prove this atm. We don't know how Salah will progress.

[The_Flash 1,144]

This year was supposed to transition but is losing or selling all out players will surely make next season even more of a transition?

[The_Flash 1,144]

Gutted

At least I got few pictures in the museum.

[gary gordon 1,777]

Love the guy. An absolute character on and off the field. But, in saying that, we now need soldiers who are ready for war! It's going to be a very entertaining transfer window.

[Madmax 9,219]

a tottenham high line, a chelsea low line or a barca no line, now it simply does not matter. the only person whose opinion mattered was jose and he thinks luiz is not the guy for us.

DL is a GREAT FOOTBALLER (great defender?, i am still not sure) but as a CHELSEA defender, he barely could be counted as GOOD. and that is the most important thing. he simply was not the defender for us.

his "minute" errors are the things that our system does not allow. we play a very rigid and organized way with very little margin for error (look at the ATM 2nd leg, one "minute" mistake from EH17 had a catastrophic effect). hence, makes perfect sense to let go off a defender who simply did not play that way.

It's amusing that you bring up the Atletico game because I can count on one hand the number of bad performances Luiz has had in a 'big' game. He nearly always stepped up to the occasion, as a defender AND a midfielder ; if anything he was often guilty of playing to the level of the opposition when we faced the lesser lights.

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

He's been a good player for us, with the odd exceptional game. But no where near an 'exceptional' player. I'll always think Munich when I remember this guy, he was incredible that day, just like the other twelve that played apart that day.

But a fee in the region of £45m is great business, so thank you David and well done Chelsea.

Yeah. He was a good player for us with an occasional great performance. He also managed to get benched by just about every manager we had at some point for brainless mistakes. He'll do well at PSG because PSG doesn't require their defenders to defend much. They are dominant in their league and just go for attack. The Premier League requires a more consistent, responsible defender who takes fewer risks and turns the ball over less. I would have been happy with 30M for him.

[Polo7 3,496]

I laugh at people who say Luiz was not first choice, he was only not first choice in Mourinho's defensive teams which failed to use his strenghs well, every other Chelsea manager before Mourinho thought he was first choice, dont get this at all Terry is 33 Cahill is average, Zouma inexperienced, Ivanovic is not gettin any young, Kalas is not trusted by Mourinho so why sell a world class CB who is in his prime ?? When u dont have a ready made replacement, dont tell me Terry will play another season like last season because he simply wont just like Ferdinand (Ferdinand played well in the season before this and was utter shit this season)

Because luiz isn't a world class cb.

[The Mak 4,459]

Yeah. He was a good player for us with an occasional great performance. He also managed to get benched by just about every manager we had at some point for brainless mistakes. He'll do well at PSG because PSG doesn't require their defenders to defend much. They are dominant in their league and just go for attack. The Premier League requires a more consistent, responsible defender who takes fewer risks and turns the ball over less. I would have been happy with 30M for him.

I've been suggesting we sell him for the past two years because of the exact issues you've highlighted...I was lambasted every time!

As I said at the time, there is only so long a club like Chelsea can wait for this supposed 'world class' defender to consistently show up, especially when he seemed to continue to make the same mistakes he was making when he first arrived at 26/27. In the end, he just wasn't suited to the PL. He'll do very well in pretty much any other European league.

[Spike 12,049]

Jose this jose that fuck Mourinho his no God he has a terrible record in the transfer market and I think this is one of the stupid ones

Mourinho seems to have a personal agenda with players who got along well with Rafa Benitez

Either this is your honest opinion or you are baiting members and trying to start a flame war. If it's the latter, I'd suggest thinking otherwise.

[Melanicus 5,208]

[ZOS 580]

a bit sad, I am ... now please some one take ramirez too

[The Skipper 20,609]

As I said at the time, there is only so long a club like Chelsea can wait for this supposed 'world class' defender to consistently show up, especially when he seemed to continue to make the same mistakes he was making when he first arrived at 26/27. In the end, he just wasn't suited to the PL. He'll do very well in pretty much any other European league.

I disagree with this, because Luiz was showing that consistency in the second half of last season (something a lot of people seem to overlook), and also carried on this form into the Confederations Cup for Brazil. He was just very unfortunate when he came back - injured, no real rest over the summer and no pre season whatsoever... That set him back a bit this season because he was well on his way to really establishing himself as a top CB this season.

It's not that he isn't suited to the PL, it really just depends in what system he plays, as with any player. For example, I think he would've been great at Man City, especially next to Kompany, or maybe even Liverpool or Arsenal. He just isn't as useful in the system that Mourinho implemented. But that happens - same way how JT was barely used by Benitez last year and looked pretty much done as a top CB... It doesn't mean that he suddenly lost it all - just that it took a different system to bring out his strengths again and that's why he's been magnificent in general this time around.

As I said before, in the right system he'll be invaluable to any team especially if he has a good season. He does obviously have the ability to play for a team in the stature of ours, hence why clubs like Bayern, Barca and PSG were after him.

[Polo7 3,496]

Are we going to go through the same thing every time we sell a player that someone loved? We got £40-50m for David Luiz!!! Ridiculous amount and its not like he was that great for us last season. Now lets watch Mourinho build us another great team.

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

Jose this jose that fuck Mourinho his no God he has a terrible record in the transfer market and I think this is one of the stupid ones

Luiz is so inconsistent and not even being played as a CB anymore, Cahill and Terry are more solid than Luiz.

Luiz has a lot of skill but he isn't a great defender.

People need to look past the fact that he is a likable character.

We just got a lot of money for someone who isn't in our first 11

[hjperdeath 2,226]

Mourinho seems to have a personal agenda with players who got along well with Rafa Benitez

For your sake, I hope you have psychological issues. It isn't right for a sane human being to think like that.

[Korea 734]

i hope we match up vs PSG next season. Great opportunity for either Luiz and Mourinho to prove they were right.