News about David Luiz

SAMI MOKBEL: The afro shining through the crisp air is unmistakable. The transformation from inside his full-back to the box's edge is unstoppable. The diving goalkeeper's finish is breathtaking. Willian, ladies and gentleman, has been strutting his Samba style in England for a decade, but not with boyhood club Corinthians. The 35-year-old Brazilian made his first appearance in a Premier League match against Nottingham Forest on Wednesday.

Fulham have announced that Raul Jimenez from Wolves has been signed in a £5.5 million contract. Mail Sport announced on Sunday that the Mexican striker had been allowed to leave the team's pre-season training camp in Portugal and arrived in London today to complete a medical with the London side earlier today. The club announced on Tuesday night that the 32-year-old had agreed a deal that would keep him at the club until 2025, with the ability to extend his contract by a year or two months.

Trevor Francis, the first-ever £1 million player, has died on Friday. His conversion from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest was historic at the time, as a pre-cursor to the exorbitant sums we see today. So how has the transfer record in Britain evolved down the years and risen to the peaks we see today?

Raul Jimenez, a Wolves player, may be on his way out of Molineux this summer, with reports identifying him with the Turkish Super Lig. On their return to the top-flight, the Mexican was one of the standout performers on Nuno Espirito Santo's Wolves side's seventh finishers in the Premier League in 2018-19 and 2019-20. However, a serious head injury suffered in a match with Arsenal's David Luiz in November 2020 could put an end to his campaign as one of the Premier League's underrated strikers.

OLIVER HOLT: On Sunday evening, there was a great win at Anfield, but there was also a tragic loss, and the loss was more convincing. Liverpool won a thrilling match over their fiercest rivals, but the 7-0 scoreline was about the agony of loss. The bulk of all, it was about Manchester United. It was about their brutal renunciation. It was about their startling capitulation. It wasn't that they lost. It was the way they lost and what it says about them and how they can recover. Defeats like those that leave scars. They have a cultural significance. There are lop-sided games, and then there are games similar to the one at Anfield, where the stage and the opponent give them a deeper sense.

Arsenal has been dealt a transfer fee in the negotiations to bring Brazilian forward Vitor Roque from Athletico Paranaense. Edu, Gunner's Sporting Director, had been attempting to find a way to sign the promising 18-year-old, who helped the Brazil U20 side win the South American Championships in January. After scoring six goals, Roque, who was once dubbed 'the new Luis Suarez' for his lethal finishing around the box, finished joint top scorer at the tournament alongside Chelsea's Andre Santos.

MATT BARLOW: The country ground came to a halt with the train workers and lorry drivers on strike, schools closed, inflation soared, politics collapsing, and football gorged on a gluttony of spending. This was February 1979 and the dog days of Discontent's winter. Nottingham Forest paid Birmingham City £1.18 million for Trevor Francis, less than a month after West Bromwich Albion had been the first to crack the £500,000 barrier. Chelsea's new US owners have returned to action, while football remains immune from the nation's highest cost of living crisis, as train drivers strike, schools close, and inflation rises. Some things don't change.

Chelsea has had a very busy January, with six players having already signed over a week of the window still open. At an average age of just over 20, the Blues are taking a different approach to previous years and planning for the future rather than the present - and their spending this month has equated to more than half of all Premier League spending in January. The change comes after three years of not spending a single penny in the winter window.

EXPERT KIERAN MAXPERT: FOOTBALL FINANCE EXPERT: As Chelsea's transfer spending increased to a historic high in Premier League history, many people have wondered how this can be achieved in the era of financial fair play (FFP). Clubs are allowed to lose £105 million in a three-year span, but there are changes for virtue spending areas such as infrastructure investment, women's teams, academies, and community projects within the Premier League FFP. In addition, new allowances had been given after Covid's influence on clubs playing matches behind closed doors and the increased costs of Covid compliance. The UEFA's rules are slightly different, with new Financial and Sustainability Acts implementing in the summer of 2022, which allow clubs to lose up to €60 million over three years, but merit spending allowances are not granted.

Mexico sent a squad mainly from their homeland and a handful of players plying their trade in Europe. Edson Alvarez, the aggressive defensive midfielder, has been linked to big-money moves to Chelsea and Barcelona, and he will be a key figure on the team. Although Andres Guardado is shooting for a new record if he takes to the field at the World Cup, he is shooting for a new one. Hirving Lozano of Napoli looks as if he will shoulder a lot of attacking responsibility, while Raul Jimenez' form and fitness are concerning.

MARTIN SAMUEL – WRITER WRITER: Only now is the game awakened to how bleak the Qatar World Cup promises to be. All the talk has been about graft, the heat, workers' rights, gay rights, overpriced accommodation, and other logistical problems facing fans, not least the host regime's button-down structure. Yet what of the players? When FIFA's cabal of crooks voted to return the tournament to the Gulf in summer, there was a discussion of player welfare in the 50oC heat. And then, after the dirty deal was finalized to move the World Cup to winter, it was suspended. No one knew the ramifications of one week of preparation. A hamstring injury in October could be the end of a World Cup dream.

Andreas Pereira, a Fulham midfielder, was in tears a year after his mistake cost Flamengo the Copa Libertadores final, after receiving a call from David Luiz when they avenged the humiliating loss. Pereira and Luiz were teammates in the 2021 final, but the Rio de Janeiro-based club lost to Palmeiras after the 26-year-old's costly mistake called in Deyverson for a winner in extra time. Pereira was on loan at Flamengo from Manchester United and now he's plying his trade for Fulham after making the permanent switch in the summer.

Wout Faes, a Leicester defender, has shared how he turned down a move to Chelsea earlier in his career and how he was able to get a signed David Luiz shirt from the Stamford Bridge club. In what has been a tough season for the Foxes so far, the 24-year-old was the team's first outfield signing of the summer. Faes also discussed how he may have joined Chelsea at just 16 years old and how the Blues threatened to lure him with a signed shirt of their former Brazilian defender, in an interview with the Guardian.

Following Todd Boehly's £4.25 billion takeover in May, Thomas Tuchel has been the new Chelsea figure to be given the axe. Marina Granovskaia, CEO Guy Laurence, and technical and performance advisor Petr Cech will all be following the German manager, who served 100 days under Boehly.

The 30-year-old was paraded at Old Trafford ahead of the Red Devils' 2-1 victory over Liverpool on Monday night, and is seen as the solution to Erik ten Hag's midfield problems. However, Liverpool legend Carragher has sluggishly criticized Man United's recruitment under new ownership, while disseminating comparisons between the Red Devils and Arsenal. Meanwhile, there is a new sense of excitement surrounding the Gunners this season. Gabriel Jesus, Oleksandr Zinchenko, and Fabio Vieira's shrewd contracts, but the north London team continued unbeaten in pre-season.