{"id":359364,"date":"2021-06-01T09:37:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=359364"},"modified":"2021-06-01T09:38:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:38:51","slug":"epl-eden-hazard-takes-final-decision-on-returning-to-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=359364","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Eden Hazard takes final decision on returning to Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Real Madrid star, Eden Hazard, has ruled out any possibility of making a return to Chelsea this summer.<br \/>\nReports in Spain had earlier claimed that the Belgium international is looking to leave Real Madrid at the end of the season and his preference is to return to Chelsea.<br \/>\nHazard joined Real Madrid from Chelsea in a \u00a3130 million deal in 2019, but he is now seen as a flop by many Real Madrid fans, having struggled to make an impact during his time in the Spanish capital.<br \/>\nThe 30-year-old started only seven games in La Liga this season, while Los Blancos ended the campaign without a trophy for the first time since 2010.<br \/>\nReacting to the development, Hazard said he is determined to \u2018prove himself\u2019 at Real Madrid.<br \/>\n\u201cEveryone knows that my first two years were not good, so first I want to prove myself at Real Madrid. I will do everything to do that,\u201d Hazard said at a Belgium press conference ahead of Euro 2020.<br \/>\nHazard added: \u201cI certainly don\u2019t see myself leaving Madrid, given the contract situation.<br \/>\n\u201cI know myself and I know when I am in shape. If that is the case, I can give it my all for Real next season. That is my plan.\u201d<br \/>\n(DailyPost)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid star, Eden Hazard, has ruled out any possibility of making a return to Chelsea this summer. Reports in Spain had earlier claimed that the Belgium international is looking to leave Real Madrid at the end of the season and his preference is to return to Chelsea. Hazard joined Real Madrid from Chelsea in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":359365,"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":[1],"tags":[1397,5326,5278],"class_list":["post-359364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-chelsea","tag-eden-hazard","tag-real-madrid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359364","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=359364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/359365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}