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Fans BEG Eden Hazard to stay with 'Chelsea is your home' banner ahead of Real Madrid move
CHELSEA fans unveiled a banner during their draw with Leicester BEGGING Eden Hazard to stay at the club.
Eden Hazard has been brilliant during his seven seasons with Chelsea but is being linked with a mega-money move to Real Madrid.
Real Madrid tried to lure Hazard to the Bernabeu last season but failed to do so.
It’s through the Spanish giants are readying a £100m bid for Hazard which the Blues are prepared to accept.
Hazard has been coy on his future this season but has admitted previously his footballing idol is Real boss Zinedine Zidane.
And Blues supporters couldn’t hide their desperation for Hazard to stay, unveiling a banner during the game.
The banner read ‘Eden Hazard bleeds blue. Chelsea is your home’.
Hazard clapped Chelsea fans at the end of the game and appears to wave at them with a smile on his face.
Supporters also started to sing ‘Eden Hazard we want you to stay’ repeatedly throughout the afternoon.
Manager Maurizio Sarri spoke about Hazard’s situation noting that there’s nothing he can do if the 28-year-old’s mind is made up about a move.
“I don’t know. If Hazard is thinking that the history here is finished, then in his mind it is finished,” Sarri said.
“I can try to speak to him but it is not easy.
“It’s not easy because of course, I want Hazard, but I want Hazard with a very high level of motivation.
“As you know you have to ask the club because I am not in control of the market.
“I am not in charge of the renewal of the contract so I am not able to answer.
I can only speak to the player but like a father, not like a manager.
“Also if I speak to him, I will not tell you anything. It’s a discussion between a father and a son.”