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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 3072452, member: 405"]
Oh, by the way - David Luiz forced his way out of Chelsea on deadline day after going on strike when Frank Lampard wouldn't guarantee Luiz would start.  Well, what do you expect?  Chelsea have been giving up 2 or 3 goals in every preseason game.  Of course Lampard was going to try some other combinations in the back.  Luiz showed what a Me-First player he is.  He can be very good in a back three, like Antonio Conte ran the last time Chelsea won the title three seasons ago.  His outstanding passing and offensive game shine in that alignment.  But in a back two, he takes too many chances and is too unreliable a defender.  I have seen it for years now.

So, addition by subtraction for me by letting Luiz go.  You avoid a problem in the dressing room.  Hazard was a problem, too, and quit on managers two separate seasons of the seven he played at Chelsea.  Hazard, Diego Costa and David Luiz (and frankly, Willian, too) are the faces of too much player power at Chelsea.  Good for Frank Lampard to get (hopefully) the last of the troublemakers out of the dressing room, and let him manage the young talent at his disposal.
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