Are we fonna talk about his representatives pushing him not to retire and are actively talking to teams around the world about him?
Fucking sharks, they want Eden to continue so they can get paid. Good on Hazard for knowing his body can’t do it anymore and not forcing it for some more money.
Yeah, and what makes it bigger, most of the other drop-off’s had something to do with the injuries, but here it was simply because he got fat lol and didn’t care anymore.
A big one was Kaka too, but obviously the injuries played a major part.
Torres was even worse, quite shocking. Probably his earlier injuries played a part, but I still can’t explain it tbh. Was unplayable and clinical at Pool, couldn’t hit the barn’s door as soon as he had the blue shirt on him and lost that physical edge he had.
Shevchenko was similar. Came to Chelsea as one of the best players in the world, one of the best 2-3 strikers at the time and was totally mediocre and pretty much harmless at Chelsea.
He was probably the biggest drop off of them all.
What might have been if he had chosen Arsenal all those years ago.
Iirc all of Chelsea, United, Arsenal and Liverpool had bids submitted (maybe even fees agreed) but he chose Chelsea. Presumably paid him and his agent the most.
Brilliant signing. Gave Chelsea his best years then sold for an absolute fortune at the perfect time.
For me in the PL era, he’s the closest to Thierry in terms of killing players over the first 5 yards. He’d leave cunts 6 feet under. Explosive.
He’d have played exceptionally for a couple years, won fuck all and been sold to a club that actually challenged for top honours, just like every other top player we had in the latter half of Wenger’s tenure lol