Eden Hazard confession – ‘In my career, I’ve frustrated all my managers’
Premier League
By
The Mirror
| Jan 22, 2019
You'd imagine having a player of Eden Hazard's ability in your team would be a dream for most managers.
The Belgian is undoubtedly one of the best players in English football - having played a part in 22 of Chelsea's goals so far this campaign.
It's no wonder that Hazard has Spanish giants Real Madrid lining up at the door to take him away from Stamford Bridge.
The 28-year-old also seems to have struck up a nice partnership with his current gaffer Maurizio Sarri.
And yet, Hazard admits that he is not always an easy customer for his respective bosses to handle.
Hazard said: "I didn’t just frustrate Conte.
“In my career, I’ve frustrated all my managers and now I’m frustrating Sarri. I frustrated Mourinho.
“They all think you need to score more, to mark more, to do more here, more that. I’ll also frustrate the next manager I have.”
Hazard has been constantly linked with a move to Real Madrid in the last two years – and revealed that after the World Cup last summer he wanted to leave Chelsea.
Chelsea were ready to pay Hazard £300,000 a week to extend his contract, but the Belgium captain Hazard has been stalling on a deal and is entering the final 18 months.
He said: “I have won everything in England, apart from the Community Shield, but that doesn’t mean that I’m leaving.
“I have always said that I wanted to explore something different after England. But there are also things that might make me stay.
“After the World Cup, I wanted to leave, but in the end I stayed at Chelsea and I’m playing one of best seasons so far.
“I don’t think that I need a different challenge. But that doesn’t mean that I will become better.”
Sarri recently called on Hazard to end the speculation about his future and make a decision.
Juventus striker Gonzalo Higuain will arrive in the UK today to undertake a medical at Stamford Bridge and complete a loan move to the end of this season with options to extend the loan for next season as well.
Higuain’s replacement at AC Milan, where he had been on loan from Juventus, will be Genoa’s £33m Polish striker Krzyztof Piatek, to complete his move today.
That will allow Alvaro Morata to also today complete his loan move from Chelsea to Atletico Madrid until the end of the season with the option of a £48m permanent move in the summer.