Frank Lampard made a “sensible” call in offloading “error-prone” David Luiz to Arsenal, says Chris Sutton, but centre-half is considered to remain Chelsea’s Achilles heel as they approach another transfer window.
The Blues sanctioned the sale of a Brazilian defender to Premier League rivals across London in the summer of 2019.
They were working under a recruitment embargo at that stage, preventing them from bringing in a replacement.
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Chelsea did, however, welcome Kurt Zouma and Fikayo Tomori back from loan spells at Everton and Derby respectively, while they already had Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen on their books.