David Luiz was setting the sort of standards Rob Holding wants to follow, on and off the pitch, well before they were - Arsenal team-mates.
The Englishman was pleasantly stunned when Luiz, then at Chelsea, got in touch to wish him well in his rehabilitation after he suffered an awful knee ligament injury in December.
He said: “I was never at England Under-21s with Lewis, but because we had the same injury at the same time and had surgery on the same day, we kept in touch with each other.
“When Sol Bamba, at Cardiff, got his injury I gave him a message, just because when I got injured I got random messages from players I had never met.
“David Luiz, funnily enough, ended up being here, but he messaged me out of the blue and I was a bit taken aback by that.
“He just said, 'It happens. You've got a great career ahead of you, just focus and you'll be good'.
“I felt like, 'If he's doing that for me, why can't I do that for someone else? It might just give them a little boost'.
The Englishman was pleasantly stunned when Luiz, then at Chelsea, got in touch to wish him well in his rehabilitation after he suffered an awful knee ligament injury in December.
He said: “I was never at England Under-21s with Lewis, but because we had the same injury at the same time and had surgery on the same day, we kept in touch with each other.
“When Sol Bamba, at Cardiff, got his injury I gave him a message, just because when I got injured I got random messages from players I had never met.
“David Luiz, funnily enough, ended up being here, but he messaged me out of the blue and I was a bit taken aback by that.
“He just said, 'It happens. You've got a great career ahead of you, just focus and you'll be good'.
“I felt like, 'If he's doing that for me, why can't I do that for someone else? It might just give them a little boost'.
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