Chelsea contract: Hazard ready to sign new deal

           

The big story of Wednesday that was making headlines across all of England and most of Europe as well was Torino-based sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport claiming that Eden Hazard “is ready” to sign his new Chelsea deal worth around €18million per year — which matches the familiar £300k per week offer from last year — and reject Real Madrid once and for all.

It doesn’t mesh with the publicly stated facts of the case from either side, nor does it make sense that such a big story (even for Italy) would be absent from the front page and instead buried in a footnote of a sidebar in a story that’s mostly about Luka Modric and Inter — i.e. if Hazard doesn’t sign for Madrid, apparently Modric isn’t going anywhere in a bit of typically nonsensical transfer rumor logic (they don’t even play the same position!).