Real Madrid have been discouraged from making any play for Eden Hazard after Cheslea manager Jose Mourinho slapped an incredible £200million price tag on his Belgian superstar.
Hazard looks odds-on to claim every Premier League Player of the Year award going as Chelsea home in on the Premier League title and Mourinho has moved quickly to ensure his playmaker does not become the subject of any unwanted attention this summer.
Asked if £100million would be enough to tempt the Blues to sell, Mourinho retorted: 'Plus one of their [Real's] three best players. £100m each leg - he's very young.'
'If they want him, I think I would be the first one to know, because my relationship with the president [Florentino Perez] and with the CEO [Jose Angel Sanchez] doesn't give space for something to happen behind me. I trust them completely. If they want him they get on the telephone and they call me to tell me they want him.'
[h/t BBC]
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