Fully onboard with his signing, was initally hesistant AF but think it’ll prove to be a shrewd bit of business.
Despite his reputation he’s only made 2 errors leading directly to a goal in his entire PL career! The banter brothers Xhaka and Mustafi are already at 7 and 3 respectively, he should never be compared to them in that respect.
Also last season 93 defenders were dispossessed more often than him and only 2 made more passes.
Very good article from Barney Ronay at the Guardian on him
Honestly quite possibly my favourite signing of the window. Certainly my most anticipated. More than Pepe, even more than Tierney.
Yeah, I’m insane. But whatever. I can’t fucking wait to see him in our back line 
It’s honestly laughable to say mustafi has only made three mistakes leading to a goal. I don’t care how they justify coming to that number, it’s wrong.
I agree, not quite sure how the Premier League ascertain it but them using ‘directly’ as a qualifier may be one of the reasons they came up with that figure.
Given the stats (7 for Xhaka and 3 for Mustafi) I’m guessing it’s a loss of possession or a gifting the ball to an opponent. I’m guessing it’s literally assists for the wrong team, basically.
Yeah, that makes sense.
That’s probably right.
Completely losing your man and waving your arms futilely at the linesman while giving him a free header six yards from goal doesn’t seem to count or Mustafi would be on about 50.
Shows you that while stats have a role in football analysis, these new charlatans I see on twitter trying to look at everything in football through the prism of stats are talking shite.
Nobody really knows how the data for these stats is collected, it’s not standardised, the utility of these stats for what you’re trying to glean from them etc etc.
Stats are great, but we should have scepticism of all stats to ensure they are actually saying something useful and aren’t a load of shite, or stats for the sake of stats.
People predicting how signings are gonna go based on radars of randomly plucked stats ffs. 
Also Luiz has probably made more. I’m gonna be honest, from the few times i saw him he wasn’t covering himself in glory. I.e. the city 6-0 iirc
I wonder if Emery will let him take direct free-kicks.
I wonder if counts standing still and letting an obviously and easily covered opponent run past? That’s Xhakas favorite move.
I think our signing of David Luiz shows a new route for Chelsea. I mean hiring a rather unproven man like Lampard as manager (transfer ban or not, club legend or not) isn’t their usual choice, I was expecting them to get a big name in like they always do. My belief is that they want to build a new team on younger players within their organisation (they have a lot to choose from) during the coming 2-3 seasons. Lampards chat with David about his future confirms this imo and obviously he had no problem letting him go. I don’t think many other managers would have sanctioned this transfer.
On a personal note David Luiz is for me in the same group of dislikable players as Sergio Basquets and Diego Costa. I haven’t rated him as a good defender either during the years. Despite this I can’t help feeling very excited about him signing for us. Maybe because it came so unexpected? And I’m still in shock? Or that I fear I may even start to like the guy during the season!
Lampard being manager might have something to do with the owner not willing to pay out big bucks anymore. Lampard will have been cheaper than a quality manager and is popular with the fans but it’s no secret theyneed a new stadium and I think they will be trending water this season and not convinced they will make top four.
I’m not entirely sure where this idea that Chelsea aren’t going to be spending has come from? They spent in excess of £200m last season and managed to spend £100m this calendar year as well. There is no austerity at Stamford Bridge.
And the transfer ban means no players coming in
It’s a reach at best. Lampard is there because Roman is nostalgic. The real hope here is that the nostalgia gets the better of him and if Lampard is failing be isn’t given the boot and makes a real balls of it.
Hasn’t even kicked a ball for us but I love him already 
I’m jealous of his hair!
I really dont know about Luiz. We’re either gonna love him or this thread is gonna go down the Mustafi road in a few months lol
What I do know is that he will definitely be good for us on corners both offensively and defensively. We have missed that type of player recently, last one I can think of would of been Sol.
I also think he will be a good personality around the dressing room, and hopefully a good organiser on the pitch. Jurys out on that, but i’m excited.
Honestly think he could bring trouble off the field here as well as being hit and miss on it.
He won’t absorb into that weak mentality though which prevails through the club. How he goes about that might be what defines his outcome as an Arsenal player.