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brunoh said:
Chelsea bringing Luiz back is the very definition of a panic buy.
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No, the definition of a panic buy would have been paying whatever stupid price Napoli or Milan wanted for Koulibaly and Romagnoli respectively. When their were hardly any good options in the market, Chelsea have just gone ahead and selected the least worst one. Do you have any better suggestion as to who we should have signed?
 
You know I'll happily accept this Luiz criticism and mockery if any of you actually came up with a viable alternative we could have signed on deadline day who would have no problem fitting in ...
 
Alcaraz said:
You know I'll happily accept this Luiz criticism and mockery if any of you actually came up with a viable alternative we could have signed on deadline day who would have no problem fitting in ...
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Bought out the loan of Christensen, Tisserand, Toprak, Maksimovic.
 
Alcaraz said:
And Luiz was solid for us most of the time as Subtle said. If you want to buy into the popular perception of a player then be my guest. It seems only rival fans have a problem with this transfer as nearly every Chelsea fan is chuffed to bits.
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Concentration and decision making are poor. Also loses composure in some vital moments. He's a good player but far too eccentric and unreliable to be trustworthy. You fleeced PSG to get £50 Million.
 
damola3 said:
Bought out the loan of Christensen, Tisserand, Toprak, Maksimovic.
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Christensen never wanted to come back after just a year. We have never been linked to the first two so makes no sense sputing off these names (might as well say Bonnucci) and the last one signed a deal with Napoli before deadline day.
 
damola3 said:
Concentration and decision making are poor. Also loses composure in some vital moments. He's a good player but far too eccentric and unreliable to be trustworthy. You fleeced PSG to get £50 Million.
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We sold him for £38m and bought him back for less. Yes he is not the perfect defensive signing but he was the least worst option in a bad market for centre-backs. As Subtle pointed out, he was solid for us most of the time but the high-profile clownish errors he makes gives him a popular perception that is understandably hard to shake off.
 
Eh, Luiz is basically like Cahill who can pass. No one really dislikes either of them, because they both have this sort of last-ditch defending style that's entertaining to the fans and requires massive balls more than anything else.

But the truth they have to defend like that because they're ****. One guy like that can work, if you pair him with someone who actually has a brain. But if your backline pairing is going to be Cahill-Luiz...god help you.
 

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Some people rightly have reservations about him as a player but he will be a huge boost to the dressing room off the pitch. Club has looked a bit sullen since Drogba left and Mourinho did his nonsense last season ... Luiz will reverse a lot of that. He is proper Chels.
 
Where is his hair in that photo, think you may have signed an imposter

Also for such an expensive deal a three year contract seems pretty short
 
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The fee's rumoured to be in the region of £30m/£34m which I believe is reasonable, especially when you consider Moussa Sissoko moving for £30m.

Overall it's been a **** good window for us imo, of course it could always be better. However I can't complain.
 
ninjaskill said:
Where is his hair in that photo, think you may have signed an imposter

Also for such an expensive deal a three year contract seems pretty short
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Is it that expensive though? I'd argue in the current market it isn't, but whatever, give a f**k about the fee. David Luiz has returned!! Also it's a three-year deal with the option for a fourth, for a 29-year-old that sounds about right imo.
 
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David Luiz is very good footballer. Average defender though. We'll see if Conte can work his magic.
 
Vanjagl said:
David Luiz is very good footballer. Average defender though. We'll see if Conte can work his magic.
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Yeah that's kind of the problem with him. He is exceptionally multi-talented player, but in modern football you need specialized players for every position, the days when all-rounders ruled the world are long gone.
 
Tyton said:
Yeah that's kind of the problem with him. He is exceptionally multi-talented player, but in modern football you need specialized players for every position, the days when all-rounders ruled the world are long gone.
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*cough* pogba *cough*

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Chelski Shogun said:
The fee's rumoured to be in the region of £30m/£34m which I believe is reasonable, especially when you consider Moussa Sissoko moving for £30m.

Overall it's been a **** good window for us imo, of course it could always be better. However I can't complain.
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Could have been a better window. Could have been much worse the postion we were in on deadline day.

Overall cannot complain much. We got the best midfielder in the EPL last season in N'Golo Kante. Two good young players in Batshuayi and Alonso and of course the hero of Munich, Luiz.

Plus the club showed they were willing to spend money with the reported huge bids they placed for Morata, Koulibaly and Romagnoli. The first one never wanted to leave and the latter two would not be sold by their respective clubs unless it was crazy money. Fair play.
 
My main gripe is that we spent too much time locked in negotiations with ADL for Koulibaly. We should have realized early that after getting the Higuan money, he is not going to sell at a fair price. We should have moved on early to our other targets instead of scrambling like crazy on deadline day and lodging bids for random players.

Idiotic from the executives and could have resulted in another Djiboldji moment. We need to identify a few targets and start negotiations early so we are not in a desperate postion on deadline day and forced to overpay for someone like Alonso or require player asking to leave like Luiz did to push the move through.
 
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