Hazard Watch: And Now He Wants To Play For Arsenal

by Graham MacAree on Feb 17, 2012 4:40 PM GMT in Chelsea FC: Transfer Rumours & News

I'm not sure whether this is news or comedy, and I won't tell you this is the latter in case you don't laugh. Make your own assumptions! Anyway, Eden Hazard, who 'according to reports' had, about a week ago, worked out a deal to join Tottenham Hotspur this summer, is now talking about how much he'd love to join Arsenal. The boy gets around, doesn't he?

There are several clubs that interest me in England and Arsenal is really a part. Of course, it's always more fun when the football is beautiful. In addition, at Arsenal, there is a French coach and French players, as well as my compatriot Thomas Vermaelen.

-Eden Hazard. Source: Foot Sport via ESPN Soccernet.

At this point I think it's pretty clear that Hazard has narrowed his field down to the top tier of Premier League teams and having done so is yet to make a decision. And what better way of amusing yourself when you've yet to decide where you're ending up than by throwing little morsels to the football media, who'll fight over every crumb like so many ravenous seagulls*?

*Hopefully nobody loses an eye to a beak jab. Seagulls can be vicious little bastards.

We know a few things. Hazard is leaving LOSC in the summer. He's coming to the Premier League. He wants to play for a top team, he wants regular starts and we can assume he also wants to be paid like a minor prince. Until Lille actually start talking to teams though, we have no idea which one of the top six sides he'll end up on, and his rather coy hints as to his destination appear to be mostly for his own amusement. So don't take the Hazard rumours seriously until the summer, ok? No more freaking out?

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In a few days he'll talk about how proud he'll be when he's a CITIZEN in the Premier League

And then, a week later, he’ll drop to the media the biggest bombshell: his favorite color is blue.

It doesn’t matter what he says right now. What matters is what happens in four-and-a-half months.

by cwel87 on Feb 17, 2012 4:50 PM GMT reply actions

I read that interview on sportmagazine.be

The interviewer was the one starting about Arsenal, Arsene wenger not him. The interviewer said something like: We hear Wenger talk about you alot, that he loves you as a player. You also mentioned that Henry was one of your idols. We also know that you love Arsenals way of playing. etc. etc. And Hazard responded: it is always more fun when the football is better. There are also a lot of French players, Arsene Wenger and Vermaelen.

It’s basicly the same response to all the Tottenham rumors. He said that it was nonsense that he signed anything, but that Tottenham have good players and a good manager.

But what I know fore sure is that Hazard really wants Champions League football. He wants to go to a club where he can win trophies and be a starter, an important first team member. Thats why he ruled out Spain. Because in Spain there are only 2 clubs that challange for trophies and it would be hard for him to be a starter for a club like Barcelona or Madrid when you look at their squad and players.

by The Bison on Feb 17, 2012 4:55 PM GMT reply actions

Same here

“But what I know fore sure is that Hazard really wants Champions League football. He wants to go to a club where he can win trophies and be a starter, an important first team member. Thats why he ruled out Spain. Because in Spain there are only 2 clubs that challange for trophies and it would be hard for him to be a starter for a club like Barcelona or Madrid when you look at their squad and players.”

I’m not good enough to start for Barcelona or Real. Or Aldershot…

by Famouscfc on Feb 18, 2012 1:02 AM GMT up reply actions