Guus Hiddink: Eden Hazard wants to stay at Chelsea

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Simon Johnson19 February 2016

Guus Hiddink today revealed he has talked to Eden Hazard about his future and insists the Belgium winger does want to stay at Chelsea.

Hazard overshadowed Chelsea’s pre-match preparations against Paris Saint-Germain earlier in the week when he admitted that a move to the French giants would be hard to turn down.

The 25-year-old also said that a switch to Real Madrid is tempting now that his idol Zinedine Zidane is in charge.

Hazard has struggled for form all season, but Hiddink is convinced he is not considering a move away from Stamford Bridge.

He told Standard Sport: “Before we played PSG I had a very short conversation with him and I asked him about the situation.

“He is very keen to be here, he extended his contract. He is happy here. His family are happy here. There is no sign from his side that he is eager to go. Of course we don’t want to bring much attention to this, but he wants to step up as well.”

When pressed on whether he should watch what he says in future, he added: “Yes. We will encourage him and talk to him about it as we do with the rest of the team.

“It is up to him. I don’t want to focus too much on that. But we are making plans and he must bring up the effort.”

Former Manchester United midfielder Roy Keane accused Hazard of having an attitude problem and said he would kick him at the training ground if he was one of his team-mates.

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Hiddink said: “I am not going to react to commentaries – it’s not the best way. It’s not just about (Eden’s) attitude, he was in a difficult situation (with injuries) before but he has to step up – he knows that.

“Every now and then we have small conversations and how he must step up to the next level. That is what his wish is.

“I hope he will step up as soon as possible. Sometimes and we have seen in the last few games what he has been able to do.

“Once he had a sprint on our right-hand side and that was the real Hazard and we want to see that more frequently.

“He has shown once, but he can show it more. He is aware of that himself – it’s up to him to step up.”

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