By Bimmbo Ogunnaike with agency report
David Luiz has the discussions he had with with Frank Lampard, before quitting Chelsea for Arsenal.
The Brazilian swapped Stamford Bridge for the Emirates in the summer, following the appointment of his ex-Blues teammate, Lampard.
According to Luiz, his decision to leave Chelsea was made before Arsenal declared their interest in him, despite only penning fresh terms in west London in May.
“I decided to leave Chelsea before there was contact with Arsenal. People do not know that but I decided early to leave Chelsea. After that I had contact with Arsenal and I took a decision which everybody knows was not easy, he told UK based news medium,The Telegraph.
He added that he and Lampard had honest conversations, Man to man discussions, noting that his ideas of football were different to his own.
We just agreed: ‘OK, we move on’. In an honest way, in a mature way.We played together, we won together. We won the Champions League, the Europa League, everything together. It was done in a mature way,” Luiz explained.