{"id":355288,"date":"2019-02-07T16:25:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=355288"},"modified":"2019-02-07T16:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:06:57","slug":"chelsea-must-not-concern-themselves-with-eden-hazard-and-his-mind-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/02\/07\/chelsea-must-not-concern-themselves-with-eden-hazard-and-his-mind-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Must Not Concern Themselves With Eden Hazard and His Mind Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a39bb753\/Eden-Hazard\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eden Hazard<\/a>\u2019s future at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/premier-league\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea<\/a> is a topic that comes up for discussion far too often. Is he going to remain and sign a new deal? Or is he going to try and force a move to <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/real-madrid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Madrid<\/a> in the summer?<\/p>\n<p>These are just some of the questions that come up when talking about the Belgium superstar.<\/p>\n<p>He has not helped himself with recent comments \u2013 but it is to be expected.<\/p>\n<h1>Eden Hazard Playing Games About His Future is Just Normal For Him<\/h1>\n<h2>Hazard Admits He Has Made a Decision<\/h2>\n<p>He revealed to <a href=\"https:\/\/rmcsport.bfmtv.com\/mediaplayer\/video\/hazard-je-ne-partirai-pas-de-chelsea-1095437.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">French Radio station RMC<\/a> that he had he has \u2018made a decision\u2019, but failed to share what it would be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know what I am going to do. I have made a decision,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/rmcsport.bfmtv.com\/mediaplayer\/video\/hazard-je-ne-partirai-pas-de-chelsea-1095437.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget, this is coming from a player who left a cryptic tweet about who he would be joining when he was still at Lille.<\/p>\n<p>Via the <a href=\"https:\/\/weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com\/2018\/1\/5\/16852968\/eden-hazard-chelsea-contract-tease-courtois-encouragement\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Aint Got No History<\/a> blog, he tweeted back in May 2012: \u201cGood afternoon guys. I made up my mind. See you later. Thanks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Eden Hazard does not like to take life too seriously. When he conducts interviews, he always likes to have fun.<\/p>\n<p>He says what he thinks and is happy to say what is on his mind \u2013 it is who he is.<\/p>\n<h2>Hazard Just Needs to Continue to Perform<\/h2>\n<p>Chelsea will not be able to change who he is and the Belgian is unlikely to share his decision until the summer.<\/p>\n<p>So, the best thing for The Blues is to see him continue to perform to the best he can.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/8a08491a\/Gonzalo-Higuain\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gonzalo Higuain<\/a>, he also might be able to enjoy his football even more.<\/p>\n<p>The pair linked up well against Huddersfield Town last weekend, with both hitting a brace.<\/p>\n<h2>Hazard Future Should Not Concern Chelsea Yet<\/h2>\n<p>The club still have a chance of silverware, as they remain in the League Cup, the FA Cup and Europa League \u2013 whilst Champions League football next season is still a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>With still so much to play for this season, Chelsea should not concern themselves with what the 28-year-old has told French media.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"bznO5Ie3TSJQUVUHb77Xyw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1126982838\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'bznO5Ie3TSJQUVUHb77Xyw',sig:'9sRFdUf82YCE888YaWWaVYS2tbCZ-9g39xII295LID4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1126982838',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eden Hazard\u2019s future at Chelsea is a topic that comes up for discussion far too often. Is he going to remain and sign a new deal? Or is he going to try and force a move to Real Madrid in the summer? These are just some of the questions that come up when talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2569,"featured_media":356252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2,3],"tags":[2492,46,563,1500,40,114,136],"class_list":["post-355288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-featured","category-premier-league","tag-blues","tag-chelsea","tag-eden-hazard","tag-maurizio-sarri","tag-premier-league","tag-stamford-bridge","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}