Eden Hazard Exclusive: Chelsea to make Real Madrid target huge contract offer

CHELSEA are ready to make Eden Hazard the highest paid player in the Premier League to turn his back on a move to Real Madrid.

Posted Sunday, June 04, 2017 by Express.co.uk

The Premier League champions have opened talks with the Belgian playmaker and are ready to pay him £320,000 to snub a switch to Spain.

Hazard was hugely influential in helping Antonio Conte’s side win the their second Premier League title in the last three seasons.

He still has three years left to run on his current £200,000 a week but the club are ready to dig deep to ensure he is still playing in West London at the start of next season.

The highest earning Premier League star is the world’s costliest player Paul Pogba who is paid around £290,000 a week by Manchester United.

Eden Hazard Exclusive: Chelsea to make Real Madrid target huge contract offer
Chelsea want to make Eden Hazard the highest paid player in the Premier League

Eden Hazard Exclusive: Chelsea to make Real Madrid target huge contract offer
Zinedine Zidane has long been an admirer of Eden Hazard

Hazard isn’t even the highest paid player at Chelsea with Cesc Fabregas understood to be on around £220,000 despite not even being the first game on Conte’s team sheet.

Chelsea are taking the threat from Real to their most prized asset seriously after it emerged they have had three meetings with his representatives in London.

But The Blues are not only willing to give him parity with the best paid players in the Premier League but eclipse them to keep Hazard happy.

Hazard will still be someway short of the two highest paid players in the world his former Chelsea team mate Oscar earns around £400,000 a week from Shanghai SIPG.

While another Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenua are splashing out £615,000 a week on Carlos Tevez.

The Belgium international dropped his biggest hint yet that he will remain at Chelsea in a recent interview.

Eden Hazard Exclusive: Chelsea to make Real Madrid target huge contract offer
Eden Hazard recently suggested he wants to remain at Chelsea for a couple of years