Chelsea wants to Sign Benfica – Defender David Luiz

Monday, January 24th, 2011 at 1:22 pm , filed under News by Tim Woods

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Chelsea are optimistic of completing the transfer of David Luiz from Benfica within the next 48 hours, with the fee of around £21.5m their major spend on a player since Andriy Shevchenko’s £30m arrival from Milan 5 years ago.

David Luiz has been great deal to Arsenal during this Januarys transfer window, as Arsene Wenger searched the footballing world for a possible defender. The champions have not won away in 7 matches but Ancelotti goes back even further, to the game at home to Arsenal on 3 October, to pinpoint a good display that yielded victory.

That win had moved Chelsea clear at the top of the Premier League but their most awful run of form in 15 years has left them trailing the leaders, Manchester United, by 10 points and effectively forced them into the transfer market.

The centre-half’s signing is part of an attempt by Carlo Ancelotti to rescue Chelsea’s season after the manager admitted before tonight’s game at Bolton Wanderers that his team have failed to make a optimistic performance and result for almost 4 months.

Luiz was omitted from the Benfica squad for the 4-2 victory over National on Saturday, a clear indication that his club are resigned to losing his services, but gunners are confident they will be able to announce Luiz’s eye-catching purchase this week.

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