David Luiz

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Its obvious Luiz has found out Marina's little secret. It tooks 2 years to clean the mess up, hence she gave him 2 years contract to shut him up.

[Tomo 21,733]

52 minutes ago, Atomiswave said:

We didnt wanna give it to Lamps and JT, neither Fab. But we give i to DL.....we have no clue, we just dont. You watch how UTD will rip their team up and build from scratch this summer.

Would this be the same United that have handed new contracts to Jones, Smalling and Young in recent months by any chance?

[Hamilton 2,120]

Don’t know what to think about this 🤔

[Special Juan 27,421]

The old tea lady has been dead 8 years, apparently we have offered her an extension this afternoon.

[Atomiswave 6,072]

4 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Would this be the same United that have handed new contracts to Jones, Smalling and Young in recent months by any chance?

And look how they are fuming over it, but you can be sure many of their current players will be going out the door. Ole has aluded this several times this past week.

[Vesper 28,764]

5 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Would this be the same United that have handed new contracts to Jones, Smalling and Young in recent months by any chance?

 

[Tomo 21,733]

1 minute ago, Atomiswave said:

And look how they are fuming over it, but you can be sure many of their current players will be going out the door. Ole has aluded this several times this past week.

Word is OGS wants to build the team around McTominay, that plus those extensions already look like we have 1 less team to worry about for top 4 next year. For the record i don't agree with the length of Luiz's new deal but he's like prime Maldini compared to those 3.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

1 hour ago, Atomiswave said:

Thats not a good thing....far from it. We have so many average crappy players made even worse by Sarri's mythical Sarri ball. We need to offload them not giving them extended stay.........Thanks for your efforts, but its time to say goodbye, but no we will happily make you stay

To be fair, with the ban is still there, she doesn't have anything else to do though. I wouldn't be surprised if she did show up in locker room and shouting "anyone else want to sign an extension?" while ignoring to make an eye contact with Hazard.

[Atomiswave 6,072]

9 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Word is OGS wants to build the team around McTominay, that plus those extensions already look like we have 1 less team to worry about for top 4 next year. For the record i don't agree with the length of Luiz's new deal but he's like prime Maldini compared to those 3.

Lets hope so mate.....but I just dont rate Dl any more. A very good servant for the Club yes, but his time has been done for some time. We should aspire to get Koulibaly, Deligt etc. Having DL as a starter next season will not bode well imo.

[Atomiswave 6,072]

1 minute ago, RoyalBlues said:

To be fair, with the ban is still there, she doesn't have anything else to do though. I wouldn't be surprised if she did show up in locker room and shouting "anyone else want to sign an extension?"

But nothing is set in stone, so why not wait and see what happens. I rather give our youngsters a chance, 2 years is too much.

[zekinjo 449]

 

[Alabama 1,992]

Going to be a long next season... 

[Special Juan 27,421]

It's not helped by the fact Christensen is as lightweight as hell and made of glass.

[the wes 7,212]

Watch this space lads willian is next to sign a new deal  

[the wes 7,212]

Two clowns in one picture 

[1905didierblue 748]

1 hour ago, Stats said:

WOW. Grow the fuck up. We are through to the final ffs. You would think we lost the game judging by your reaction. He was at fault for the goal, but what shows a mental strength of a player is the way they recover. He was top notch after that. He won so many aerial challenges, especially there long set pieces they kept launching into the box and also made that pivotal clearance at the end. The BT Sport pundits also recognized he was at fault for the goal but lead by example after that. I am not denying he is error prone but imo he has been key to our play this season. We have kept 15 clean sheets in the league. The third most in the league and that is quite impressive, considering some of those clean sheets were against big teams too. And yes, I think a lot of the clean sheets was pivotally because of Luiz. He had MOTM performances in many of them. 

"Grow the fuck up"? Will that help in Luiz suddenly becoming a decent defender?

Also let me tell something to the apparent "grown ups" here, we could have lost the opportunity to be in the final because of one man - David Luiz. 

No amount of winning aerial challenges was going to correct the blunder for his absolute blunder. He is a defender, the breed who can do 99 right things, but WILL and should be judged on the 1 howler because that one howler simply and totally changes the game. Just like it did yesterday and just like it has done multiple times this season and each season where this moron has been a defender. 

His perceived and apparent MOTM performances must have been in some other virtual reality because th guy just got an extension and reading by the comments on here, I don't think I am the only one pissed with it, or do we all need to do some "growing up"?

[1905didierblue 748]

So this is what we have come to. Breaking club policies for shit, bang average players and liabilities like Luiz. 

It's going to be a long long 2 years.

[Superblue 6,370]

Wow, the reaction on here is mind blowing.

If we could buy in the summer, I could understand the reaction but we can't replace him at present.

I'm someone who is a massive advocate of giving young players chances but it must be done in the right way. Christensen was a prime example of that last season - he had a very good, solid season up until the Barca home game and then his form fell apart. The club were lucky to be able to call upon Cahill during this time, not because he is Baresi but because he was a solid, experienced option who could fill in and Christensen could be taken out of the firing line. It's far too risky for say Tomori to just be chucked straight in. I'd have no problem him being in the squad next season and gaining experience but he shouldn't be coming in directly as first choice.

On top of that, Rudiger may not be fit by the start of the season (and you don't know how well initially he'll come back from the injury, he may need easing in), Christensen is still struggling to fulfil his potential and Zouma may not be deemed suitable for Sarri (or he may want to go to Everton permanently if he's a guaranteed starter there). There are too many question marks across our back line at present to afford to just let Luiz go.

David Luiz will never be the greatest 'defender' and will always play with an element of risk but he also brings a unique skill set as a ball playing centre back that none of the rest of our players have. Hopefully Jorginho continues to improve and kick on next season like he has in recent games, and Luiz's ball playing becomes less needed in time but until that happens he's still pretty important to the whole way Sarri wants to play.

Also I don't think it should be underestimated how important he likely is off the pitch. Even the old guard are glowing in their praise of how upbeat and great Luiz is for the dressing room and whether people like to admit it or not, he is one of the few leaders we have still at the club at present. I'd love Reece James to break through next season and RLC to become a mainstay in midfield and potentially one of them could be captain material but that's one day, not now and if Luiz were to leave at present without the ability to bring in new players we would be leaving a dressing room already short of leaders, nearly devoid of any at all.

A 2 year deal isn't ideal but the club doesn't have a choice if they want to keep him, he has all the negotiating power due to the ban. There isn't anything stopping us next summer buying a new centre back and Luiz may then decide it's time to leave after one year and we either release him early or let him leave for a nominal fee. I cannot see the club suddenly changing their whole structure and offering all sorts of over 30's long term contracts as with the exception of Giroud, who we have an option on anyway, no one else has a contract expiring this year. If their contract expires in 2020 that is quite frankly irrelevant because we can buy again by then and it reverts back to us holding the negotiating power.