To say that there were a few eyebrows raised at Chelsea's £30 million re-signing of David Luiz last summer would be a sizable understatement. Much had been made of Chelsea's supposed good fortune two years earlier when Paris Saint-Germain reportedly shelled out the best part of £50m for the defender's signature. His subsequent return to Stamford Bridge for a significant fee, therefore, seemed bizarre to some.
It appeared to be a desperate throw of the dice by Antonio Conte, a last-minute swoop for defensive reinforcements on transfer deadline day after missing out on Napoli's Kalidou Koulibaly and Roma's Kostas Manolas.