David Luiz: Chelsea in fresh contract talks with Brazil defender, Maurizio Sarri confirms

David Luiz: Chelsea in fresh contract talks with Brazil defender, Maurizio Sarri confirms
Chelsea are still in contract talks with David Luiz as he nears the end of his existing deal, manager Maurizio Sarri has confirmed.Luiz, the Brazil defender, is tied down to the Blues until the end of the season, and Sarri has previously expressed his desire to extend the 32-year-old’s contract.2

Centre-half Luiz has been a key figure for Sarri’s Chelsea

And talks with Luiz have been renewed, the Italian confirmed after Chelsea’s 1-1 draw with Eintracht Frankfurt in Thursday’s Europa League semi-final first leg.“I don’t know on David Luiz, I know that he had a meeting four or five days ago, but then my mind was on this match,” said Sarri.“I didn’t ask him the result of it.”Luka Jovic headed Eintracht into an early lead, though Chelsea grew into proceedings with Pedro levelling on the stroke of half-time.The Blues were left to rue a clutch of missed chances though, with Sarri admitting he felt his men should have won.“I think that we made a mistake in the first 20 minutes because my feeling was, from the bench, that we were playing only to manage the result for the 0-0,” said Sarri. “But we are not able to do that. Then we started to play after 25 minutes and played very well until the 85th minute and deserved to win for the number of opportunities.“We were in control of the match for 70 minutes and should have won.“But they are dangerous on the counter-attack if you give them spaces.“We deserved to win, 1-1 is not so bad away.

LIVE ON talkSPORT

talkSPORT is your home of live football! Here's what's coming up on talkSPORT and talkSPORT 2...

• West Ham vs Southampton (Saturday, 3pm) talkSPORT 2
• Cardiff vs Crystal Palace (Saturday 5:30pm) talkSPORT
• Derby vs West Brom (Sunday, 12:30pm) talkSPORT 2

“They are very dangerous at home, but they are really very dangerous away.“I’ve seen Eintracht’s games in the Europa League, and they are dangerous.“We want to go to the final, but we know very well we’ll have to play a very good match next week.”2

Pedro superbly scored to secure Chelsea a valuable away goal against Eintracht

Eintracht boss Adi Hutter insisted his side can complete the job at Stamford Bridge in next week’s second leg.“Everything is still possible,” said Hutter.“We have to score a goal, that’s a fact, and Chelsea at Stamford Bridge will be the great favourites – that’s for sure.“But after the goalless draw here against Inter, no one thought we could go to Milan and win.“That’s how we have to act in London: be confident, brave and courageous. But I’m happy with the performance. Anything is possible.”

---

Today the online game firm kicked off the FIFA 19 World Tour with the assistance of Manchester United's Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard, Grime artist Stormzy and comic, rapper and actor Michael Dapaah aka Big Shaq.
sport news Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford sit down to play

---

/ Arsenal 'could live to regret' allowing Aaron Ramsey to leave the club for nothing this summer, according to former Manchester United ace Darren Fletcher. Ramsey, Arsenal 's current longest-serving player, will end his time with the Gunners at the end of the season to join Italian champions Juventus. Many have been baffled by the move
Arsenal news: It'll be a big mistake from the Gunners to let

---

Ajax 2-3 Tottenham Hotspur: Incredible fan footage of Spurs

---

That 250k would be sitting in all the clubs' bank accounts anyway! It's not as if the clubs had set aside that money to be used as charitable donations either. If clubs want to do more for other worthy causes such as food banks, grass roots football etc, then they have plenty of money to do that anyway.
Arsenal NewsNow - Just Arsenal News

---

Watford vs Arsenal: TV channel, live stream, kick-off time and team news for Premier League match The Gunners will aim to bounce back from their defeat to Everton in their last league meeting and
News list for unusual kick-off time tv channel and live

---

Ajax 2-3 Tottenham Hotspur: Incredible fan footage of Spurs' Champions League semi-final winning goal emerges - from DUTCH supporters while Ajax supporters in the stands went from joyous
Ajax 2-3 Tottenham Hotspur: Incredible fan footage of Spurs

---

Celtic have confirmed the arrival of German full-back Jeremy Toljan on loan from Borussia Dortmund. Hoops manager Brendan Rodgers told talkSPORT on Thursday that he was hoping to add more players
Celtic complete signing of Borussia Dortmund full-back Jeremy

---

Steven Gerrard dedicates derby win over Celtic to Rangers supporters and hails his side's dominant display The Gers inflicted a first Old Firm defeat on Brendan Rodgers - at the 13th attempt
Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers praises rival Steven Gerrard

---

Tottenham could play a potential Champions League quarter-final at their new stadium with UEFA reportedly willing to let them use the still unfinished ground later this season. Spurs have one foot
Tottenham Hotspur new stadium update: UEFA ready to let Spurs

---

All the latest transfer news and rumours from the Gunners ARSENAL boss Unai Emery now focuses on strengthening his squad this summer on a cut-price budget. The Gunners season ended in sorry

---

Atletico Madrid: Saúl being tempted by Manchester City is the tip of the iceberg as Diego Simeone faces his toughest summer A one-week slip is all it has taken for Atlético Madrid's season to crash to the ground.
Sergi Roberto: Real Madrid wanted to sign me before I joined

---

"We gave Papy Djilobodji permission to not be with us in July, when he said he wouldn't turn up if we didn't pay him, so he could find another club. We gave him some guidelines to keep himself fit to make sure he was up with the pre-season standards, but he didn't turn up in August whilst looking for a move, and with the transfer window
Sunderland News & Blogs - Topical Talk: Sunderland

---

Liverpool FC live transfer news, team news, fixtures, gossip and more. Get all of the latest Reds breaking transfer news, fixtures, LFC squad news and more every day from the Liverpool ECHO

---

Sam Allardyce has lamented the lack of opportunities given to homegrown managers in English football. Speaking on the Sports Breakfast on Tuesday, the former England boss said he is 'bewildered' by the fact so many talented coaches are overlooked for jobs in their own country and not afforded the same chances as their foreign counterparts.
SWAG announce nominee for 44th Awards Night - godgobless.com

---