Jose Mourinho has laid down a marker for Real Madrid: £200million for Eden Hazard, plus Cristiano Ronaldo or Gareth Bale. The Chelsea manage...
Jose Mourinho has laid down a marker for Real Madrid: £200million for Eden Hazard, plus Cristiano Ronaldo or Gareth Bale. The Chelsea manager was speaking ironically, naturally.
He is convinced that despite Zinedine Zidane’s conscientious wooing of the Premier League’s best player, Hazard will remain at Chelsea.
Hypothetically, what might be the price of taking the player who is expected to be crowned PFA Player of the Year on Sunday evening?
£100m? ‘Plus one of Real Madrid’s three best players,’ said Mourinho, before reconsidering and putting the price up. ‘£100m each leg, because he’s very young, so £100m each leg.’
Mourinho can afford to joke, Hazard signed a five-and-a-half-year contract just two months ago and his manager says he is not concerned despite the fact that Zidane was conspicuously praising Hazard last week. Eden Hazard (centre) takes part in a Chelsea training session at their Cobham training ground on Friday
