David Luiz sent Rob Holding amazing message of support months before Arsenal transfer from Chelsea – The Sun

DAVID LUIZ sent Rob Holding a classy message of support, months before joining Arsenal from Chelsea.

Holding has recently recovered from an awful knee injury he picked up against Manchester United during a collision with Marcus Rashford last December.

Rob Holding was carried off in December's game at Old Trafford last season with a cruciate ligament injury.

Then-Chelsea defender Luiz was one of a raft of players to get in touch with Holding, including Bournemouth's Lewis Cook and Gunners legend Ian Wright.

After a 10-month injury lay-off, the defender, 24, played 90 minutes in the Gunners' 5-0 win against Nottingham Forest and again in their 4-0 victory over Standard Liege.

And Luiz, 32, is now his team-mate after an £8million switch from Stamford Bridge.

Holding 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’.

"Philippe Senderos also got in touch, as did Ian Wright.

He’s a great, experienced head to have around and he’s one of the nicest guys as well, who has come in and gathered the team around him.

"The little Arsenal ­family came around and got around me. It’s a nice little touch to give me that boost."

Holding went through much of his recovery with Spanish right-back Hector Bellerin, who is now back in the first team.

But the former Bolton star is glad defensive rival Luiz is now in the same squad as him.

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