David Luiz, eh? I bet you didn’t see that coming. The circumstances in which he arrives at Arsenal are uncannily similar to the ones that saw him return to Chelsea in 2016. Having unsuccessfully cased Kalidou Koulibaly all summer, the Blues desperately needed a centre-half going into the last 48 hours of the window and David Luiz arrived back at Stamford Bridge, well, out of the blue. Luiz is part of Kia Joorabchian’s stable of Brazilian players and this was significant in his unexpected return to Stamford Bridge. Chelsea reluctantly took Alexandre Pato, another one from the Kia rolodex, on loan at the tail end of the 2015-16 season. Within a year of that anomalous looking loan deal,...
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