SAN FRANCISCO, June 01, (THEWILL) – David Luiz’s agent, Kia Joorabchian, says the defender has fallen in love with Arsenal FC and will be leaving the club anytime soon.
Joorabchain stated this in an interview with Sky Sports News stressing that both parties will sit down and discuss the future of the star soonest.
He said: “He’s very happy at Arsenal. He has an extremely good relationship with both the coach and the sporting director. He has good relationships all throughout the club, right up to the owner. He respects everybody.
“Arsenal had an option, which expired. We also had a pandemic [coronavirus]. So the option expired in the middle of the pandemic. We are all very aware of that situation and we are all trying, very slowly, to get back to this ‘new normal’.
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“These contract situations, these renewals, if he stays or if he goes… will all sort themselves out when we get back to some kind of ‘new normal’.
“David will sit down with Arsenal before the season begins, have his conversations and they will both decide if he will stay or not. That will come before the season starts. The chances are very high [of Luiz being at Arsenal next season]. There is no desire to leave.”
He also used the opportunity to clarify issue on the recent report that Luiz had said returning to former club, Benfica, could be a possibility, explaining: “What he said was, ‘if the opportunity arose in the future – before I retire – I could go back to Benfica and finish my career where I started it’. But he never mentioned about wanting to go back to Benfica now”.
