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Chelsea - Truth behind David Luiz snub revealed

Chelsea - Truth behind David Luiz snub revealed

  • Nima Tavallaey Roodsari (@NimaTavRood)
When Chelsea's starting line-up against Manchester United was revealed, eyebrows were raised that Brazilian international defender David Luiz was not only not in the starting eleven, but was not even called to be on the bench.

The official reason provided by the club is that the former Paris Saint-Germain player has suffered a knee injury but Sky Sport Italia reveals that the real reson behind this surprising snub has to do with something completely different. According to the report Chelsea manager Antonio Conte and the player are not seeing eye to eye and this is Conte's way of taking control of the team he led to the Premier League title last season.

What makes the sitiation even more delicate is that Luiz, is according to Sky Sport, a protégé of Chelsea's Russian owner, Roman Abramovich as well as the club Director Marina Granovskaia which will fuel even more speculation that the former Juventus manager could be on his way out from Stamford Bridge.