It is now looking like PSG sold the wrong Brazilian, with Luiz in the form of his life at Stamford Bridge and Thiago Silva seemingly in decline
As Thiago Silva trudged off the field at Camp Nou on Wednesday, having shamefully failed to have made even one tackle during Paris Saint-Germain's shocking collapse in Catalunya, it was difficult not to wonder whether the spineless visitors might have fared better with David Luiz at the heart of their defence.
That is a remarkable state of affairs, given that Thiago Silva was once lauded by the likes of Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi, while Luiz was widely ridiculed, for both his hair and his positioning, with Gary Neville famously claiming that he looked like he was being controlled "by a 10-year-old on a Playstation".