For many reasons, Luiz to replace Puyol
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 5:45 PM | by Daniel Whiteway 
This one is for those of you out there who are fans of stylistic succession; that the successor should be as similar as humanly possible to their predecessor. To an extent that is.
The Daily Mail today has an exclusive on Barcelona making a summer swoop in the region of £35 million for Chelsea centre back/centre midfielder/centre forward/ winger David Luiz.
The Mail reports that Barcelona have long been interested in the 24 year old, tracking his performances ever since he was at Benfica. Amazingly, this hasn’t put them off.
If this is a rumour to be believed, the obvious conclusion to be drawn is that Luiz is being lined up as an almost immediate replacement for the 34 year-old Carles Puyol whose injury problems are beginning to mount up.
As alluded to earlier, their styles are similar in the sense that they both have mad, ginger hair and a mad playing style, although Puyol’s madness generally involves sticking his head in places that a head really shouldn’t go (referring to the vicinity around feet travelling at some velocity, naturally) whilst Luiz tends to use his madness to go AWOL from defence into areas a defender probably shouldn’t go (the winger positions, attacking midfielder, signing autographs on the touchline whilst the game is in progress and so on).
However, The Mail states that Barcelona see Luiz as the perfect partner for fellow maverick, ball-playing centre half Gerard Pique, forecasting a world where the pair play a series of one-twos out of defence and ending ever move with goals like this and this (almost). Mouthwatering.
Despite the potential £35m offer, Chelsea will likely resist the temptation to sell Luiz, The Mail states as they also have a mental, loyal, ageing centre half with injury problems in the form of John Terry to cope with.
If, however, Luiz does leave, Chelsea could just continue the potential policy mentioned earlier and sign Fabricio Coloccini as a frizzy-haired, ginger, insane centre half with an eye for the ludicrous.
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