{"id":169711,"date":"2019-11-22T10:52:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=169711"},"modified":"2019-11-22T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:52:54","slug":"hazard-reveals-why-he-rejected-psg-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=169711","title":{"rendered":"Hazard reveals why he rejected PSG move"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Real Madrid forward, Eden Hazard, has revealed he turned down opportunities to sign for Paris Saint-Germain, while he was still at Chelsea.<\/p>\n

However, Hazard said his loyalties as far as French football is concerned, will always be to former club Lille.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old joined Lille as a teenager and went on to make close to 200 appearances for the club in all competitions, winning a league and cup double with them in 2010-11 before leaving for Chelsea a year later.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey [PSG] often wanted to recruit me,\u201d Hazard told L\u2019Equipe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not want to go back to Ligue 1, and not to another club other than Lille. I always told them no.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my head, it was clear. They are a club that could help me win the Champions League. But it was not in my plans. If I ever come back to Ligue 1, it will be with Lille.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Real Madrid forward, Eden Hazard, has revealed he turned down opportunities to sign for Paris Saint-Germain, while he was still at Chelsea. However, Hazard said his loyalties as far as French football is concerned, will always be to former club Lille. The 28-year-old joined Lille as a teenager and went on to make close to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,5326],"class_list":["post-169711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-eden-hazard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}