🇧🇪 Eden Hazard

[Weckerz 3,781]

If Hazard wants a Balon D'or he can't rest on his laurels like so many of fans want him to. He really needs to increase his goal-output this season. He should be getting at least 20 in open play each year.

Pretty sure he's not resting on his laurels, in fact he's way more proactive and direct compared to last season. He's just never going be the goalscoring machine you want him to be I think.

If he'll ever win the Ballon d'Or it will not be for scoring 40 goals a season

[LAB 1,030]

Eden engineers goals practically. That's what he likes to do. Can have a great impact to the team just like a 20 goals/season player would do. No comparison imo.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

I firmly believe if we had Messi or Ronaldo people would still find reasons to complain...

[Daniel1980 1,425]

I firmly believe if we had Messi or Ronaldo people would still find reasons to complain...

Of course they would. Messi doesn't actually escape criticism. If he has a "meh" game, Barcelona fans furiously argue for many pages whether he's past it or not. The bigger the star, the higher the expectations. It's normal. If people are okay with average performances from a player, it means they don't rate him highly enough to begin with.

And at Chelsea, Jose would be the first to complain about Messi, because his workrate without the ball is non-existent, and more often than not, he just walks around until he gets the ball.

[Tomo 21,751]

There is a new core emerging at this club and Hazard is the most vital part if it.

When he doesn't play the step down in quality at AM is so obvious, look at the Bolton game. Willian, Schurrle, Oscar and Salah are all very good players in their own right, they have strength's to their game but also big weaknesses, they will never be the star man at the club, maybe Oscar if he brushes up a bit but that's it.

Hazard is the man, there's a reason managers double and sometimes triple up on him, because he is THAT good, he won't be someone who takes 20 shots a game and scores 50 goals a season because he isn't that type of player, it kind off what makes him what he is, he always makes the best decision, if the shoot is on he takes it, if the through ball is on he does that, if putting Alan Hutton on his arse is the best decision he does that.. The way he drives at defenders terrifies them, one minute there straigthing him, the next he's away that's why they double up because one on one? forget it.

Even when I think he has had an under par game, I look at the stats afterwards and he has created more chances than anyone else combined, made more dribbles and key passes than any one else combined. That's why I laugh at this rubbish he needs to take responsibility, Cesc and Costa have been making the headlines this season but make no mistake, Hazard is every inch as important to our season as those two if not more.

[Jase 43,479]

Is it just me or every once in a while, this thread will turn into the same old redundant Hazard v Neymar/Messi/Ronaldo/Bale 'thread'?

[Jase 43,479]

Jose Mourinho unconcerned by Eden Hazard's form for Chelsea

[iseah100 5,612]

Is it just me or every once in a while, this thread will turn into the same old redundant Hazard v Neymar/Messi/Ronaldo/Bale 'thread'?

Well, there's only so much to talk about.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Well, there's only so much to talk about.

Wth. I was about to say that

[iseah100 5,612]

Wth. I was about to say that

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[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Jose Mourinho unconcerned by Eden Hazard's form for Chelsea

Amateurish journalism that headline is. Would expect better from Dan Levene.

[Jase 43,479]

Amateurish journalism that headline is. Would expect better from Dan Levene.

Erm, where did it say Dan Levene in the story?

And amateurish headline? That's just the standard direct news headline.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Erm, where did it say Dan Levene in the story?

And amateurish headline? That's just the standard direct news headline.

Oops, I was responding to the getwestlondon headline, not the sky one.

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/chelsea-boss-unsure-how-eden-7846862?utm_source=Get+West+London&utm_medium=twitter

[Jase 43,479]

Oops, I was responding to the getwestlondon headline, not the sky one.

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/chelsea-boss-unsure-how-eden-7846862?utm_source=Get+West+London&utm_medium=twitter

How did that happen?

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

How did that happen?

Horribly late at my end

[Jase 43,479]

Horribly late at my end

Clearly been drinking too much of Spike's 'coffee'.

[laeth 527]

So when is this contract extension going to get confirmed?

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

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The French media is so embarrassing, Canal Plus precisely. How many times must they ask Hazard the same question?

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

So when is this contract extension going to get confirmed?

Mourinho said it will take a month or so when he commented about it 2 weeks ago. There is no set date.

[Thor 2,819]

Crazy to think this guy could have been a Manchester player... That Champions League win over Bayern meant a lot more than just glory for that one moment. It's part of our history, but it also allowed us to be in a position now to continue to make history with players like Hazard. He wouldn't be here without a whole lot of luck and some brilliant goals from Drogba, and not to mention a whole bunch of crazy penalty saves from Cech.

It's great when things work out... haha.