Arsenal completed the signing of Luiz on a two-year deal for a fee of £8mafter he indicated he wanted to leave the club.
The Brazilian centre-back trained away from the rest of the squad on Wednesday and some reports suggested he had gone on strike in order to secure a transfer, but Lampard insists that wasn’t the case.
“There certainly weren’t any strikes, so I’ll make that clear straight away,” the Chelsea boss said.
“We had some conversations over the last week, honest conversations because I know David well and I think the conclusion of that was that he moved on.
“The day David didn’t train was a decision that I made because we were in the middle of this, we were talking and it was quite clear which way it was going, but that was not a decision as a punishment or because there was a strike, it was just what worked for that day.
“It’s an area of the pitch where I have competition, there’s going to be competition there throughout the year and people will need to make that shirt their own. I don’t have ones, twos and threes and that’s what everyone has to understand and that will be the same everywhere.”
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