Luiz told the Daily Mail of his early experiences under a new manager:
“We had a conversation in the first week he arrived. He didn't want me to stay and that was normal.
“I'd been injured for a long period. I was in the last year of my contract. I was 31 years old and everyone was saying, ‘No, not David’. Then, after three days
he saw me training and said, ‘No, you are going to stay’.”