Eden Hazard has become the last in line without looking like Manolo García or Quimi Portet. In the Pizjuán the Belgian did not play for a minute despite Madrid standing in Nervión without four attacking players (Benzema, Vinicius, Asensio and Mariano). For Ancelotti, it simply does not exist. A footballer of a hundred million who is not seen even in the changes of filling but who continues to cost Real Madrid an arm and a leg. His salary this course is €28M gross and if we take the calculator to do the calculation, each of the pyrrhic 392 minutes that this course has played has cost the white club 70,000 euros. A fortune for a simple goal, against Celtic on the first day of this Champions League and it was 0-3 in a game that was practically resolved.
The ineffectiveness of Hazard and the existence of the Belgian in any plan that Carletto develops place Madrid for another summer between a rock and a hard place. Its contribution is practically nil for that contractual year that it overflies in an onerous way and its possible inclusion in an engineering exercise regarding transfers in a possible operation by Harry Kane with Tottenham, it appears as the only way out. That or an unprecedented solution in the white club in modern times: finalize it even if it is by paying him that remaining year.
It would not be nonsense in economic terms. Hazard this season has received his quota corresponding to the bonuses for winning the three titles that the team has won (Copa del Rey, European Super Cup and Club World Cup) having played a total of 67 minutes in those three competitions. Actually, he only played them in the Cup and it was in the first round against Cacereño.
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does not want to leave
If Madrid seeks its place in the squad, it would only have that way out, to pay him the settlement, because Hazard does not want to leave. He prefers, as Gareth Bale did in his last season, exhaust his contract even without playing practically nothing and decide his next professional step without ties since 2024 when he will be 33 years old. If someone wants to change the step before, it would have to be going through the box. The zero sporting prospects do not seem to worry him in the least. Ancelotti haggles the questions about when he will play something without moving an iota of his famous eyebrow and the club considers him hopeless. The former Belgian captain is not even the elephant in the room. Although Asensio leaves, Brahim will take his place. And in the background, Hazard.