Chelsea FC bring back David Luiz for £30m from Paris Saint-Germain

The Brazilian re-joined the Blues from Paris Saint-Germain for £34m in one of deadline day’s shock deals, two years after he was sold by the Blues to the French champions.

Chelsea head coach Antonio Conte is short of numbers at the back and had already signed Fiorentina’s Marcos Alonso for a fee of £20.5m on what proved to be a busy deadline day.

And the centre back’s fashion statement was a hat tip to his father, who posed in an earlier edition of Chelsea’s kit from Luiz’s first spell at Stamford Bridge.

The 29-year-old, who quit Stamford Bridge for Paris two years ago, has returned for a fee that media reports put at £34 million (RM185 million).

Alonso is no stranger to the Premier League having played for Bolton for three seasons.

Although he endured criticism for some haphazard defending during his first Chelsea stint, Luiz helped the club win the Champions League for the first time when they defeated Bayern Munich in the 2012 final. “So it’s pretty good business for them”. The London club’s record-breaking summer deal was a domestic transaction, paying Liverpool 27 million pounds ($35 million) for striker Christian Benteke. It is an area that boss Antonio Conte has identified as needed reinforcement many times during this transfer window. “The prices have gone insane. you find people focusing more on the domestic market”.

Tottenham signed France Under-21 winger Georges-Kevin Nkoudou from Marseille for £11 million, landed Espanyol goalkeeper Pau Lopez on a season’s loan and let Cameroon forward Clinton Njie join Marseille on a season’s loan. In announcing Hart’s departure after 10 years at the Etihad Stadium, City said he was a “key figure in a golden age in the club’s history”. Bony joined Stoke after seeing his career stall since joining from Swansea a year ago.

Another England global, midfielder Jack Wilshere, tied up his future with a loan move to Bournemouth Arsenal also released midfielder Serge Gnabry on a permanent transfer to Bundesliga club Werder Bremen.

Meanwhile, Juan Cuadrado has also officially left Chelsea for Juventus on a three-year loan with the option to buy.

Espanyol was the most active Spanish club Wednesday as the squad overhauled its roster under new Chinese owner Chen Yansheng continued.

“Jack is a player that needs no introduction and one that, quite rightly, our supporters will be excited to see”, Bournemouth chief executive Neill Blake said.