It's been billed as a transfer-deadline-day panic buy, but Chelsea fans see David Luiz's return to Stamford Bridge as representing something so much more.
For all the detractors he has in football, Luiz maintains a cult status on Fulham Road. He won the Champions League as a Chelsea player in 2012, proving an unlikely hero in the face of adversity when John Terry missed the final through suspension. Chelsea fans haven't forgotten his contribution.
Call it the hair—or that hat he wore when signing for the Blues on Wednesday—but the cult of Luiz is alive and well in west London.