Chelsea may have sold David Luiz to rivals Arsenal ahead of this season, but Blues boss Frank Lampard says he will always respect the Brazil defender from his time at Stamford Bridge.
The centre-back could come up against Chelsea for the first time since he left on Sunday, when Lampard's men visit Emirates Stadium for Mikel Arteta's first home game in charge of the Gunners.
Arteta's predecessor Unai Emery brought David Luiz across London back in August, the 32-year-old sold just a month after Lampard took over at Chelsea.
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The emergence of Fikayo Tomori – who won his first England cap last month – and Kurt Zouma's form has meant Chelsea do not appear to have missed Luiz, though his old team-mate Lampard was unwilling to make such declarations ahead of the latest London derby.