The only thing reliable about David Luiz is that he’s unreliable. At 32 he should be the complete package in his position, not the same player who first signed for Chelsea in 2011, still making the same mistakes.

Sometimes you watch the Brazilian and think he’s fabulous, then he makes a careless error or his decision-making is awful. You admire his distribution, then he loses his concentration. If there’s one place in a team where you can’t have that, it’s centre-back because it leads directly to an effort on goal.

It looks like Frank Lampard told him at Chelsea — “you’re not going to play much” — because he forced the issue to sign for Arsenal and work with Unai Emery, whom he played for