5 Premier League players who should have switched clubs in the January window

#2 David Luiz (Chelsea)

The defender will feel unlucky to not have played so much this season

It has been a difficult season for Chelsea after winning the league in 2017, and it's been a difficult one personally for David Luiz too.

The Brazilian was the defensive mainstay of the team last campaign, a player vastly improved from his first spell at Chelsea.

Gone were the silly and needless mistakes, in its place, a world-class defender who almost never put a foot wrong emerged

Luiz struggled with minor injuries over the summer and youngster Andreas Christensen took his place and has performed admirably well.

Manager, Antonio Conte has rarely given Luiz a chance to wrestle his first team place back.

This is not to say that Christensen should have been put back on the substitutes bench, for his form has been too excellent for this to happen; rather, Luiz is too excellent a player to not be included in the starting XI either.

Most Chelsea fans seem to want him to replace the waning Gary Cahill, who has looked short of quality this season so far, but Conte has remained strong in his convictions.

There were murmurings of Luiz being used in the deal to bring Olivier Giroud to Stamford Bridge but the striker ended up arriving alone.

Arsenal could have used a player like Luiz, too, and one must wonder why the player didn't agitate for a move, given his playing situation.