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David Luiz, forced out and made a pawn by Mourinho

By on May 23, 2014

Paris Saint-Germain are close to completing a deal with Chelsea to sign center-back David Luiz and make the Brazilian the most expensive defender in the world in the process.  PSG have reportedly agreed a £40 million fee for Luiz with Chelsea, but the move is clearly not for the money for Luiz; he currently makes £3.9m a year at Chelsea.  Instead, the move is because of the never ending controversial choices of The Blues’ manager Jose Mourinho.  The Portuguese manager managed to cast aside all the wonderful talents of Luiz, and only hand him 19 league appearances this season as he did not quite fit into Mourinho’s counter-attacking tactics.  So, although expected, the sale of Luiz will come as quite a blow to Chelsea fans.

Luiz was their main “madman”, the Brazilian flare in their squad.  The 27-year-old has made 142 appearances for the side he joined not even three years ago, and having signed a five year deal at Stamford Bridge just two years ago, clearly would not have been forced out of the club by any other manager. Yet Mourinho is using him as a toy, one to cleverly evade UEFA’s Financial Fair Play laws, which the governing body has begun to use with ferocity.  And as PSG will be willing to pay extraordinary sums to seal the signing of Luiz, Chelsea can sell him and thus counter-balance their spending spree.  Diego Costa is looking set to join the club fr £31.8 million over the summer, and as the likes of Alberto Moreno and Filipe Luís are also on Mourinho’s radar, Luiz’s sale will be pivotal.

And not only that, but it will be one of the best pieces of business cash-rich PSG have ever made.  Having won 34 caps for the Brazilian national team since 2010, Luiz is a powerhouse and undoubtedly will be a star in the PSG starting 11 even alongside the likes of Thiago Silva, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and Edison Cavani.  PSG really are getting ever so close to realizing their goal of winning the Champions League, and could potentially attract Chelsea’s Eden Hazard if Mourinho would be willing to let the starlet go.  The French club have won the French Ligue 1 for two consecutive years, and are undoubtedly the title favorites going into next season; their summer spending has barely even begun.

 

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