We should definitely get more than a 100 million for him. When players like Dembele are going for nearly 200 million, and Coutinho for over a 100. 

Last year of his contract as we all know, but we are also in a dire position where we can't replace our best player if we sell him, hell yeah we need an offer that we can't refuse. 

18 hours ago, Strider6003 said:

I read they will pay £86m and we want £100m, this is Hazard who has been a great servant to us over 7 years. Just hope we don't mess him around.

The last thing we want is a top player still here with a bad attitude.

Chelsea don't owe anyone anything. Eden is still under contract, if they decide they want to hold on to him for one more season they are well within their rights. Same thing applies to the fee they're asking for. They shouldn't settle for less than what they feel is fair just to keep the player happy. I love Hazard, but you signed a contract, you honour it.

3 hours ago, Bramskii said:

Chelsea don't owe anyone anything. Eden is still under contract, if they decide they want to hold on to him for one more season they are well within their rights. Same thing applies to the fee they're asking for. They shouldn't settle for less than what they feel is fair just to keep the player happy. I love Hazard, but you signed a contract, you honour it.

I agree on a legal point a contract is a contract yet when we sold Czech to Arsenal for £10m was that strictly business?

I don't think so.

I try and look at the long term as well as the short term, consider other young potential stars that might want to come to Chelsea. After seeing the current Hazard negotiations  and seeing  he has been here for 7 seasons will this put them off coming here?

Hazard didn’t exactly do us any favours when he refused th extension which has been on the table for well over a year. He could easily have signed it ensuring we get his market value which is more than double what Madrid are quoted to be bidding.

Love the guy but it goes two ways 

16 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

I agree on a legal point a contract is a contract yet when we sold Czech to Arsenal for £10m was that strictly business?

I don't think so.

I try and look at the long term as well as the short term, consider other young potential stars that might want to come to Chelsea. After seeing the current Hazard negotiations  and seeing  he has been here for 7 seasons will this put them off coming here?

Cech was past his best.

Cech was out of his prime years age wise.

The club had made a conscious decision to no longer make him a 1st team regular.

Those are the reasons why Cech got his move.

17 minutes ago, Blue Exile said:

Cech was past his best.

Cech was out of his prime years age wise.

The club had made a conscious decision to no longer make him a 1st team regular.

Those are the reasons why Cech got his move.

Not so sure, my memory was of Courtois making noises from the bench as he wanted to be No.1.

3 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

Not so sure, my memory was of Courtois making noises from the bench as he wanted to be No.1.

I thought he went straight from his Atletico loan to the number 1 goalie for us, and Cech spent a season as back-up.

22 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

Not so sure, my memory was of Courtois making noises from the bench as he wanted to be No.1.

At which point the club went in his direction....

17 minutes ago, Valerie said:

I thought he went straight from his Atletico loan to the number 1 goalie for us, and Cech spent a season as back-up.

I think they were splitting starts at about a rate of 50/50

Considering we just signed a player who's a level or 2 below Hazard for 70M, no way we should settle for anything under 100M. Yes, he's got a year left and has his heart set on Madrid, but nobody knows what will happen in 6 or 12 months time, and Madrid doesn't like to wait. Nobody wants to force Hazard to stay, but if Real is being cheap, no way we should be bullied by them.

 

14 minutes ago, Blue Exile said:

I think they were splitting starts at about a rate of 50/50

That was how I recall it too.

1 hour ago, Chelsbear said:

Hazard didn’t exactly do us any favours when he refused th extension which has been on the table for well over a year. He could easily have signed it ensuring we get his market value which is more than double what Madrid are quoted to be bidding.

Love the guy but it goes two ways 

Why would he sign the extension if he wants to leave, he owes us nothing.

11 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Why would he sign the extension if he wants to leave, he owes us nothing.

But then again we are within our legal rights to keep him for another 12 months. Would be a bad decision imo, but we have to use that as our joker in negotiations on his transfer fee.

6 minutes ago, coco said:

But then again we are within our legal rights to keep him for another 12 months. Would be a bad decision imo, but we have to use that as our joker in negotiations on his transfer fee.

Exactly. If it came down to accepting a fee of around 80m or keeping him for 12 more months, I’d want the club to keep him.

Edited May 26, 20197 yr by Blue Exile

The club owes Hazard? If he signed the fecking contract we wouldnt be in this situation. Weve held our end of the deal, Hazard should too. 

The club owes him or Madrid nothing. Pay £130M or feck off. Have him next year you c*nts. 

45 minutes ago, Blue Exile said:

Exactly. If it came down to accepting a fee of around 80m or keeping him for 12 more months, I’d want the club to keep him.

It'll be a nice view from the moral high ground without £80m to buy one or two new players.

4 minutes ago, Valerie said:

It'll be a nice view from the moral high ground without £80m to buy one or two new players.

We won’t miss it with this transfer ban ?

2 minutes ago, Blue Exile said:

We won’t miss it with this transfer ban ?

That too will pass. Getting a huge transfer kitty to make up for it will be of major importance.

16 minutes ago, Valerie said:

That too will pass. Getting a huge transfer kitty to make up for it will be of major importance.

Or we use Hazard to bridge that gap, consolidate CL football for next year and bolster the squad from that guaranteed revenue later. Not much point in having 80 mill if you can only offer the Thursday night cup.

6 hours ago, Bramskii said:

Chelsea don't owe anyone anything. Eden is still under contract, if they decide they want to hold on to him for one more season they are well within their rights. Same thing applies to the fee they're asking for. They shouldn't settle for less than what they feel is fair just to keep the player happy. I love Hazard, but you signed a contract, you honour it.

He wants to leave but hasn't been pushing it, and continuously said Chelsea decide. I think he's happy in his current situation, if we let him go he gets his move, if we keep him he stays at Chelsea for one more year where he's settled and loved, then next season join any team he wants for free + a higher basic wage because of that.

The only consideration is that he'll be 29 next season, I wonder if he'll get a 5 year contract on mega wages considering he'll be playing most of it in his 30s.

On our end if we stay banned we are better off with Hazard than £86m, I'm sure he won't drag his feet and can help us survive this tough period and get us CL qualification and possibly a cup. 

2 minutes ago, sonic90 said:

He wants to leave but hasn't been pushing it, and continuously said Chelsea decide. I think he's happy in his current situation, if we let him go he gets his move, if we keep him he stays at Chelsea for one more year where he's settled and loved, then next season join any team he wants for free + a higher basic wage because of that.

He was quoted only a few weeks ago as saying he had told the club his intentions and what he wants, and was now leaving it with them to sort it out. For me that is more or less a transfer request. Granted he hasn’t pulled a Courtois but he is hardly begging for a new deal either. 

17 minutes ago, Blue Exile said:

Or we use Hazard to bridge that gap, consolidate CL football for next year and bolster the squad from that guaranteed revenue later. Not much point in having 80 mill if you can only offer the Thursday night cup.

That is also a viable scenario, but imo only if we don't act against Hazard's wishes, and he actually wants to stay and play for us. As some have pointed out earlier: there is not much point in having a disgruntled star player, who may not bother about giving his best. Consolidating CL football might just be pie in the sky then.

2 hours ago, coco said:

But then again we are within our legal rights to keep him for another 12 months. Would be a bad decision imo, but we have to use that as our joker in negotiations on his transfer fee.

100% agree we're in our right to do that, hence why it makes no sense for Hazard to sign an extension just so we can demand a bigger fee. What if no one matches our valuation and just hold him to his contract.

14 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

100% agree we're in our right to do that, hence why it makes no sense for Hazard to sign an extension just so we can demand a bigger fee. What if no one matches our valuation and just hold him to his contract.

If we were to estimate the £ worth of having Eden for one final season, taking into account the circumstances with the transfer ban coming before a champions league season, then surely i would guess it's worth an extra £50m if we keep him and achieve top four with no new players (saved transfer fees).

So if Madrid offer £80m, we will theoretically lose £30m by turning them down, but we'll be in a good position next season when we need to attract new players after the ban.

But i would rather RM pay up and we get it done.

If we do keep him because Madrid will not meet our valuation, will he still feel 100% committed to this season?

I recall Sarri saying at least once recently his mind is not totally focussed on the game.