Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens reflect on the career of former Chelsea and Real Madrid star Eden Hazard, who announced his retirement at the age of 32 this week.
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Even before he joined us at Chelsea with Lille he was balling out
I never imagined getting 40,000 biweekly profit, despite the economy downturn our lord Jesus is wonderful…..!!!!
My Eden Hazard💙💙💙
Hazard, Neymar,Messi and now guys like Musiala , Felix are just blessed by Gods with footballing ability.
Chelsea great and legend no doubt about it. Completely non existant and just name on the payroll at madrid. Had the potential to be one of the all time greats sadly will only be remebered for his time at chelsea.
When he rejected new castle, I always expected him to retire when his contract was up
Salah scored 44 goals in his first liverpool season and broke the prem record . It's not even a debate 😂😂😂
Chelsea has two eras under Roman Abramovich… 2004-2012 and 2012-2022…
Hazard was without doubt the best player of the 2012-2022 Chelsea era… Absolute baller.
Greatest dribbler in PL history
He was very good but he didn't have the longevity to be called a great
Cause they haven't ruined enough talented attacking players.
Hazard was only 2nd best to Henry in the history of prem
Waste of talent
Mo Salah doesn't even come close to Prime Hazard.
So he had a great natural talent. But because of his “free-spiritness” he is retiring at 32…
Best Chelsea player ever..salah is not even in the arguement
Hazard had just the most uncanny ability of getting out of the tightest of spaces with his innate ability to know what a defender was going to do. His speed, both in his legs and between his ears, meant he was very rarely tackled let alone dispossessed, certainly in period before he went to RM. Never seen a player do this better in almost 50 years of watching football. Its just a pity that he hardly trained and, by all reports, lived the life. So yes to a fair degree his talent was wasted, but who cares. He is the kind of player you always remember, even if their star only burnt brightly for a comparatively short amount of time.
Yeah, but he couldn't do it in the harder Spanish League. We give guys a hard time when they go to the Premier League & don't play well. We need to do the same thing with these guys. Guy's Who dominate the Premier League and then go to the Spanish league and don't do nothing.
You don't have to be sorry, Hazard in his prime was better than Salah. Salah was more of a goal machine and he was perfect for Liverpool's system. Hazard went through a lot of different coaches and tactics and always ended up carrying Chelsea on his back alone. Salah never really had to carry his whole team as consistently as Hazard did. Also I'm sorry I don't remember the years, but Hazard should've won easily two more Player of the Year awards, including one where Salah was awarded it. He was robbed. Just like Hazard was robbed of the Best WC player in 2018. So many times he was actually robbed of those trophies because his team did not advance as much.