The aura of a great figure of Real Madrid that he had Eden Hazard when he signed in 2019 he vanished with a shooting star. The Belgian is going through one (another, actually) of his worst moments in his twenty-two months as a madridista and the white club no longer considered an untouchable asset. Neither his performance nor details such as that controversial moment of laughter with Zouma as soon as the white team Stamford Bridge was eliminated help his cause, although he apologized. Madrid wants to go this summer and the one that comes to the market very strong with Mbappé and Haaland in the lead and needs money now that the immediate economic project of the Superliga is parked sine die. One way of income will be the output operation in which does not rule out including Hazard if an offer appears and it is interesting.
The real Madrid It is not going to actively put Hazard on the market, but if there are interested parties who call, they will pick up the phone. Unlike footballers like Vinicius, presidentially armored, Hazard's great supporter is Zidane and that umbrella can fly away if Zizou separates his way from Madrid at the end of this season. The Marseillais is disturbingly silent and it is plausible to think that a new coach will be more tempted to ask for all the coal to be thrown in for Mbappé or Haaland than to try to get the Belgian back.
The big problem for Madrid is that Hazard's real value now, that is, what could be entered for it is a mystery. It has fallen below the 100 million (and another € 40M in variables) that the transfer cost with Chelsea. Specialized websites vary. Transfermarkt gives it a market value of € 40M and the tool BeSoccer, even less: 33.1 million. As a great star, his salary is impressive, it is in line with that status when he signed (he earns € 15M net per year) and he still has three more seasons on his contract, until 2024. Convincing him to accept a challenge elsewhere by charging less does not seem easy.
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The precedent Bale
The most recent example of a situation that can be analogous was Madrid's stubbornness with Bale. The club was slow to assume that perhaps the best thing was to separate from the Welshman and that happened because it was the most expensive signing in its history since 2013 (it was € 101M). The result is that Between accumulation of physical mishaps and extra-sports controversies, Bale was irretrievably depreciated year after year to the extent that the white entity could barely count on him on the pitch and when he could, the sentence came from Zidane, who has him in his sights since they experienced a personal friction in the final in Kiev.
All this resulted in the fact that with Bale it was necessary to find the lesser evil, which was to send him back to his previous home (Tottenham) paying him part of his salary. Pure kryptonite for the club accounts. In July he has to return and his apparent resurrection in recent weeks at Spurs opens up new possibilities. From staying in Madrid (if Zizou leaves) to staying in London if Tottenham is still interested in negotiating again. A situation that if it happens in the future with Hazard would be catastrophic because his influence on Madrid's successes is so far light years from that of Bale.