🇧🇪 Eden Hazard

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

3 hours ago, RoyalBlues said:

Sky Nigeria hasn't reported it, I wouldn't believe it.

From the Guardian:

Eden Hazard is set to join Real Madrid after the Spanish club and Chelsea agreed a fee in the region of €100m (£88.5m) plus add-ons.

Hazard said after Chelsea won the Europa League final against Arsenal that “I think it is a goodbye, but in football you never know”. At that point Real and Chelsea had not agreed on a fee but on Wednesday night they did with the announcement set to follow in the next few days. The two clubs are now preparing the contracts to be signed.

The 28-year-old Belgian will leave Stamford Bridge after seven hugely successful years at the club, winning the Premier League twice, one FA Cup and two Europa League titles.

The Chelsea manager, Maurizio Sarri, who is also expected to depart, said after the game against Arsenal that he had known about Hazard’s desire to leave for some time. “As you know, Hazard is a wonderful player, but you have to spend two or three months to understand him as a man,” he said. “But when you are able to understand him as a man, he’s a wonderful man. I knew Eden wanted to leave. But I wanted to respect his decision.”

Hazard had one year left on his contract and ruled out joining another English club in the buildup to the Europa League final, saying: “No chance, no chance. I am a Blue. It means a lot to me. I cannot play for another club in this country.”

Real Madrid are rebuilding their squad after a disappointing campaign in which they finished third in La Liga, 19 points behind Barcelona, having endured 12 defeats. They were also eliminated from the Champions League by Ajax in the last 16, 5-3 on aggregate after a 4-1 home defeat.

Julen Lopetegui started the season as Real manager but was sacked on 29 October and replaced by the caretaker Santiago Solari. Zinedine Zidane was then rehired as manager on 11 March and the club have already signed the defender Éder Militão from Porto for £44m and the striker Luka Jovic from Eintracht Frankfurt for £57.7m.

[Atomiswave 6,117]

88M is piss fucking poor imo......in this market for a player as Eden? Piss fucking poor, even with 1 year left. We are supremely nice here, yeah he is a legend etc, but why should we suffer. I bet that cunt Levy will get more for Erickson......piss poor this.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

10 hours ago, Pizy said:

Just hurry up and get it over with, FFS. 

Gonna feel super weird hitting the unfollow button on Twitter for Eden after all these years. Followed him the day he made that famous tweet and it'll be strange not seeing him as a Chelsea player. 

 

It's super weird that you'll stop following him on twitter because he changed clubs. I thought he meant much more to us than that. As for me, I'll continue to follow his progress at Madrid 100%

[Fulham Broadway 17,313]

Mugged off again. If we were getting him from them they'd have £200m slapped on him

[Special Juan 28,141]

We are just shit at business full stop.

[the wes 7,212]

11 hours ago, Nicco said:

Embarrassing fee not even 100.

I think there's add-ons on the deal 

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

It really depends on the structuring of the deal. the base fee says nothing. If it is something like 88m + 20m for 20 appearances, 35 for 50 and another 25 once he wins his ifrst title etc.. it could still be a good deal for us. The bigger the deals get the more the buying clubs wants to make sure that it only pays big if the signing is the success that can be expected.  I also think that there was more in it and marian once again failed at her job but i dont think that this is a 88m flat deal. We rejected 88m flat before and now they come back with the same deal and we accept it? no way. We could drag this deal all summer and real would get nervy. No we only accept those ridiculous 88m because Real came back with a sginficant increase in the bonus payments.

[Antonio8 736]

9 hours ago, BlueLyon said:

88m£ is jackshit in today market, regardless if Hazard is 28 and one year left on contract.

What the hell can we buy with that cash if we could? We can buy one player that is nowhere near Hazard quality or buy couple decent squad fillers.

Market for english clubs is extremely inflated and we cant even manage to get 100m pounds for one of the best players in the world.

Chelsea should tell Real to pay 120m£, take it or leave it. 

When we will be able to buy again, market will inflate by another 10m. Wait when we will try to buy a fullback, cb, midfielder and they all will cost 70m or more, never mind the attackers.

how can you say that? next year he would leave for free 

 

[Superblue 6,372]

Will be interesting to see if we go in for Kovacic what they'll be demanding from us?

If we have decided to buy him then hopefully that has also been discussed and we'll be getting some form of discounted deal from them.

It is frustrating in recent seasons to see two of our best players leave for them on hugely discounted transfers because of their contract situations, and we've been fleeced royally off them for Morata.

[Jase 43,479]

 

[MoroccanBlue 5,382]

No way Marina agreed to that without any specific add ons or bonuses. 

[the wes 7,212]

According to telegraph we are getting £130m for hazard 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/06/06/eden-hazard-complete-real-madrid-move-chelsea-agree-130m-deal/

[LAM09 7,051]

No way Marina agreed to that without any specific add ons or bonuses. 

Of course it's including bonuses. Probably just over £100m for the sale alone.

[Pizy 18,906]

I'd probably be pretty excited and content with getting over £100m for him if it were a normal summer where I knew the club would reinvest the cash. Knowing that we can't makes this feel pretty hollow.

 

[Special Juan 28,141]

 

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

£88.5m with performance based add ons? What a joke, theres no guarantee we will ever get that full £130m. Wasnt it not £130m we wanted to start with? What the fuck is Marina playing at? Turned down 65m for Willian but is willing to let Eden go for £23.5m more upfront and performance related add ons that may never come to fruition? She needs a headcheck. Or sacked.

[Superblue 6,372]

7 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

£88.5m with performance based add ons? What a joke, theres no guarantee we will ever get that full £130m. Wasnt it not £130m we wanted to start with? What the fuck is Marina playing at? Turned down 65m for Willian but is willing to let Eden go for £23.5m more upfront and performance related add ons that may never come to fruition? She needs a headcheck. Or sacked.

According to reports the add ons are all pretty achievable. It's annoying but a lot of these deals are like this. I'm pretty sure Morata was £58m up to £70m with add ons. 

The one thing the club has done in recent seasons is driven a hard bargain with selling players so I'd be surprised if these clauses were unrealistic to be achieved.

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

Just now, Superblue_1986 said:

According to reports the add ons are all pretty achievable. It's annoying but a lot of these deals are like this. I'm pretty sure Morata was £58m up to £70m with add ons. 

The one thing the club has done in recent seasons is driven a hard bargain with selling players so I'd be surprised if these clauses were unrealistic to be achieved.

Unrealistic or realisitic it means nothing. What if their related to Reals CL and La Liga standings and they have a stinker this next season? Should have got paid the full amount upfront, they really wanted him, he wanted to go cant see the logic in taking add ons when Zidane is desperate to get Eden as opposed to the full fee upfront, if anything weve done them a favour. Thank fuck Moratas add on clauses probably never happened. 

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Well whatever it is, it is bloody £130m then. No way they are ready to pay full in front. Not bad at all though. Let's move on.

[Atomiswave 6,117]

#BREAKING: @hazardeden10 is officially a @realmadrid player 😱@CarrieBrownTV gives the latest...#LaLiga #beINLiga #RealMadrid pic.twitter.com/I4zt6joqMt

— beIN SPORTS (@beINSPORTS) June 6, 2019