Chelsea transfer news: 'Eden Hazard will cost Real Madrid £100m - and a Galactico,' says Jose Mourinho
Chelsea manager confident club will be able to spurn Spanish advances for their star player
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Your support makes all the difference.Eden Hazard would cost Real Madrid "£100m plus one of their three best players", Jose Mourinho has stated, but the Chelsea boss does not feel his former club are trying to unsettle the Belgian.
Hazard is expected to win the PFA Player of the Year award tonight, and his sensational recent form has led Real legend Zinedine Zidane to describe the 24-year-old as one of the three best players in the world.
Zidane is working as a coach with the Spanish club’s B team, but is seen as a key figure for the future, and such words generally indicate the beginning of a PR drive to smooth a planned purchase of a player.
Mourinho denied that was the case, due to his own good relationship with Bernabeu president Florentino Perez from managing Real between 2010 and 2013, but still laid out a high asking price for Hazard.
When a figure of £100 million was put to the Portuguese, he responded “plus one of their three best players”, pointing to the relative young age of the Belgian as greatly increasing his value.
Hazard is worth “£100m each leg, because he’s very young - £100m each leg”, Mourinho said.
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