Former Chelsea star David Luiz has opened up on the 'honest' conversations he had with Frank Lampard before leaving for Arsenal.
Luiz was once a key man for Chelsea but during the summer transfer window he made the surprise switch to the Gunners.
The Brazilian international has delved into his Chelsea exit in an interview with The Telegraph and insists he had already decided to leave before Arsenal came calling.
"I decided to leave Chelsea before there was contact with Arsenal," he told The Telegraph.
"People do not know that but I decided early to leave Chelsea.
"After that I had contact with Arsenal and I took a decision which everybody knows was not easy.
"Me and Lampard, we had honest conversations. Man to man, me and him. His ideas of football were different to mine.
"We just agreed: ‘OK, we move on’. In an honest way, in a mature way."
Luiz had two stints at Chelsea either side of three years with Paris Saint-Germain and won the Premier League, Champions League, two Europa League crowns and two FA Cups.
Some of that silverware was won alongside Lampard and Luiz insists the two parted ways on good terms.
"We played together, we won together. We won the Champions League, the Europa League, everything together.
"It was done in a mature way."
