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Hazard was brilliant at Chelsea for a couple of seasons, he really was. It’s also true that he didn’t score more than 16 goals in a Premier League season once. He was also a massive flop at Real Madrid. He’s been all but retired for about 4 years if we are totally honest.

It’s a shame but during what should have been his peak years, he was injured & overweight most of the time. I’d argue that his transfer fee and output at Real makes him one of the worst signings in history. He also went more than a year without scoring a goal in the Premier League.

To summarise, great player when he wanted to be but nowhere near deserving of some of the accolades he gets.

What shame are you talking about, you can't blame him for having countless injuries for trying to fight for the club he had a contract for. Didn't you see what he did for Chelsea, out of all the clubs he went to, Chelsea was the best place he went to which he did a hard work for himself, the stats are there but ever since he came to Real Madrid, faith hasn't favour him and all the time he return from the injury, Anceloti didn't use him because he feared he will likely enter another injury and that will be at the expenses of the club finances which is better.

Despite been bench countless times, they make sure he is always among the squad that represents Real Madrid in very of their matches, so anytime the club win a trophy, he also win and it's ways included in his record history, since he came to Real Madrid, he has won two Champions League, that will remain stick to his name forever.

The fact that he retired early was brave of him, he has lose shape because there were many reports of him not even going for trainings, now tell me who is going to sign a player that is now twice his size, who is going to sign a player that is always a risk to injury, nobody unless he want to settle for minor club which will be the end of his career, retiring at this stage earned back maximum respect from football.

Anything related to the zidane is still remain unclear. Zidane has been rumored agree to join in marseille as long as the club will be acquired by the saudi investors while in another news said that if zidane is likely going back again to the real madrid.
The chance for him to join in real madrid is still very big caused by he had been also giving three times UCL trophies for real madrid which has become a record owned by real madrid as a team that was winning the most prestigious trophies three times in a row.
That's what im thinking about if zidane will be back again to the real madrid instead of another club. Perez may think of him as the most potential choice to be a successor for ancelloti next year

The decision has been taken by Hazard, where the Belgian player decided to retire sooner than everyone expected. 32 years old is still considered very young, but we know that the main reason he retired was due to a long-term injury. LOSC, Chelsea is a club that has experienced his maximum contribution, but that was not the case when Madrid recruited him.
It is possible that Hazard will enter the world of coaching in the future after retiring, it could be that Hazard will be lucky in this job. 16 years and more than 700 matches played, not only me, maybe everyone would call him a legend.

I think he could have played a bit more because before Madrid he was very good at Chelsea and I felt like he could have displayed some good performances at some other club after Madrid. Maybe it's because he was so good , I feel like watching him for a bit more but seems like that has come to an end now. It must have been very hard decision for him given how good he was and his age. Well hope he will have happy retirement now.

I don't think you can say that the move to Real was a mistake for him and no one can guarantee that at another club or championship he wouldn't have been haunted by injuries. Azar was a player of exceptional talent at the peak of his career at the age of 23-27 he was virtually unstoppable. He could beat anyone one-on-one, make a great pass, escalate play or score a goal. Unfortunately, injuries hampered him and his big contract with Real killed his motivation to keep playing. In the form he was in, it's not that it's not easy to play, it's not easy to walk. It is safe to say that he really quit playing at the age of 29-30, and now he has only formally finished his career.

During the last Champions League won with Real Madrid, He had it difficult with winning the Spanish La Liga. Even with all the high quality players. All attention was switched towards winning the Champions League.
He is a great and elite player but I'm not sure he's ready to be the next Pep Guardiola. Too many people defend him, I want to see him handling a club with younger talents and help share the knowledge he's acquired all these years.

Immediately after the Champions League triumph, Zidane resigned immediately to save his career profile since then he has rebuffed all ideas and talks related to handling a coaching job.

It's a shame that Eden Hazard's career faded when he was at Real Madrid because he spent too much time on the bench and suffered an injury which reduced his performance even though at Chelsea he was able to win a title there, even though Eden Hazard hoped that when he joined Real Madrid Eden Hazard would achieve a lot title here but in fact the reality did not go according to his expectations and now he has to retire and end his football career even though he is not too old to retire, I hope Eden Hazard will one day become a great coach, whatever club he will debut at, but I just wants Eden Hazard to continue appearing in European football to continue to make his name in the world of football.

It's really unfortunate for a talent like Hazard. When he made the move to Real Madrid, there were high hopes for him. It's not an exaggeration to say that there were expectations for Hazard to step into Ronaldo's shoes given his exceptional form back then. Unfortunately, things have taken a different turn as he's been plagued by injuries, and his performance has suffered as a result. It's starting to seem like his decision to join Real Madrid might have been the wrong one.
I also think he could put in more effort to improve his physical condition before considering retirement. Being inactive and not working out enough can increase the risk of injuries. Just look at Ronaldo; he continues to train diligently to stay in shape, even at an age when many players have already retired.

You are right that Haaland is only a pure striker who is able to score goals even if he has an assist, but if he plays without a good assist, Haaland's performance is not that good because he doesn't have the ability to dribble the ball alone. For example, in several Manchester City matches, Haaland had more than 12 opportunities to score goals but he failed to complete them well.

The problem is that in the 2024 season, Ancelotti contract with Madrid will end. So Mbappe arrival to Real Madrid will definitely be handled in not enough time. Unless Madrid still wants Ancelotti to stay and hone Mbappe skills.

many people dont agree with Eden Hazard decision but he has made a very wise decision for himself because after all the injuries he has experienced have caused his performance to decline and it is also very difficult for teams from europe to offer him a contract because these teams know that his performance is no longer there. reliable so that no european team was willing to offer him a contract while he still wanted to be in a european team and also I heard rumors from several media that actually from other leagues there were those who had interest in signing him but he refused and decided to retire. It is very disappointing to see Eden Hazard retire early after a great career with the talent he has and now he has decided to leave football and after all he will still be remembered as the best midfielder.

I don't know what the future will be like but during his career as coach Rooney seems to have never achieved anything that he could be proud of he didn't even have any great achievements.
Even though Rooney is former great player and can be said to be a Manchester United legend during his coaching career Rooney was not as smooth as when he had career as player.

Even though there are many rumors saying that Rooney coaching will bring a new performance for Birmingham City to play with confidence and without fear, I don't think like that because if he can provide big things then it is impossible to leave MLS.
But who knows let just see whether Rooney will succeed in bringing Birmingham City to be promoted to the Premier League.

In my opinion, Eden Hazard's retirement was not a good idea because, if we look at Eden Hazard's age, he was still able to play. It is true that he has spent all the time on the bench due to injuries. But it was not a good idea to lose hope in football only because of injuries, but now it has happened. But in my opinion, Eden Hazard should have continued his career as a player; it was not necessary to stay at Real Madrid and go to other clubs and further continue his career and make his career individuals status by winning trophies.

Before retirement, many clubs took an interest in Eden Hazard, so they should have left and should not have been demotivated and disappointed with football due to injuries. There were many players who did not end their careers due to short-term injuries, but after recovery, they started to struggle more and started performing better than in the past. But anyway, it has its own deception; we can only express our opinion and nothing else.

Most likely this rumour will be happened especially currently Birmingham City has no manager after they were decide to sacked John Eustace but Wayne Rooney career as a manager was not too good even he has failed bringing DC United to advances to playoff stage and DC United also has performing poor under him because from 34 matches DC United only able to collect 40 points and finish at 9th place on standings league and this also caused Rooney has been sacked to his position as the manager on that team and some people were wondering why Birmingham City has decide to pick him as the new manager and they doubt Rooney can bringing positive impact to Birmingham City because he has no good track record during his career as a manager

Haaland was only still less than 2 seasons in manchester city. it sounds non sense if im hearing that city was willing to let him go out from the club. I think that real madrid was unwilling to paid that amounts of money for him. The club was prefer to get mbappe.
There might be some potentials striker at this moment. It's caused by in fact that if osimhen was also having bad relationship with its club. Real madrid had many choices available in upcoming season.
You will not even find another messi and ronaldo again. These guys were so creative and im not seeing someone who could dribble the ball as good as messi this time. Messi's dribbling very perfect.

In fact, that if many striker these days were tap in specialist. I rarely able to see a striker who can also have good dribbling at the same time. There's nothing weird about that. I meant let's say that if madrid will get mbappe and the club will get someone who has good dribbling combined with proper finishing. Mbappe already fully developed but it can still be digged by ancellotti.

I meant "recently", the tie and loss made it sure that the yare not as good as they could have been. Do not get me wrong they are doing fine overall if you look at the whole league type thing, but that is just one thing and nothing big.

I believe that we are going to end up with something that would be awesome if we could see it change and they end up with some more wins, but they need to keep the win streak going and not get ruined. If they keep playing like the last two games then it is going to be trouble for them. I know that Liverpool has done fine so far this season but that doesn't mean that we are going to end up with something that would be easy to handle, it would be mostly regarding what we are going to do on the long run, and not the short period we already had.

Soon Wayne Rooney's future as a coach will be answered and the club that is very close to being able to get his services is Birmingham City. Previously, the former Manchester United legend had managed DC United in MLS and he had indeed left the MLS team some time ago. We also know that he was the manager for Derby County when he was still part of the team in the 20/21 EPL season but not long ago he was fired because he was unable to produce the best results. After MLS we will see him return to managing one of the teams in the championship division and I think if he is successful in bringing Birmingham to promotion in the EPL next season it will certainly be interesting to see him back in the EPL.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1711752631348035666

It's actually quite shocking for me. At a normal 32 years old he can still play well if he is not injured. He was a very good player during his time at Chelsea. But not when at Real Madrid. It seemed like Hazard had been desperate to fight his recovery so he decided to retire. I hope this injury is not the fault of Madrid who could not handle well. 4 seasons with madrid Hazard was more on the bench due to a recovering injury.

That is some interesting information and again Barcelona finds itself in the midst of a lot of financial trouble. After every transfer window when the deals are done and Barcelona is starting into the new season, it seems like they somehow managed to cope with their debt, but in reality it is still there of course as nothing has fundamentally changed. I wonder when the first club will really collapse financially. So far it has only been hypothetical that the media reported a club is about to go bankrupt. But it never happened to one of those big clubs that are in debt. They manage to keep going every single time, but when is the threshold kicking in that the first club will suffer from consequences?

https://www.goal.com/en/lists/revealed-barcelona-owe-over-200m-transfer-fees-leeds-man-city-bayern-raphinha-ferran-torres-robert-lewandowski/blt872f6cb7fe1694f3#cs465942820c6f94be

Barcelona may go bankrupt if the team was not able making change on its financial condition. barcelona needs to stop in buying the new players while it doesn't even have good financial at this moment. Barcelona shall try to pay the owe transfer fees instead of searching the new players.
The club needs to turn its financial to be positive. I meant barcelona had been owed a lot of transfer fees. The club needs to find a solution for that. la liga needs also to restrict barcelona do buy more players.
Barcelona has not paid the owed transfer fees. Barcelona is in a lot of debts right now. This club will become a bankrupt club if there will be no a huge step taken by the club,

I read that in the latest news if xavi is wiling to buy three players. How is it possible? Barcelona may go bankrupt as soon as posible due to the huge debt owned by this club.