Lol, diplomatic would have been 'no comment', not what he's been actively doing over the past few weeks which is intentionally dropping hints in an attempt to increase speculation and force the clubs after him to offer more wages/a higher fee for his agent, who like I said before stands to make £7million out of this deal - Hazard's his only high profile client so he was very much trying to orchestrate this to squeeze as much money out of it as possible.

Lol, diplomatic would have been 'no comment', not what he's been actively doing over the past few weeks which is intentionally dropping hints in an attempt to increase speculation and force the clubs after him to offer more wages/a higher fee for his agent, who like I said before stands to make £7million out of this deal - Hazard's his only high profile client so he was very much trying to orchestrate this to squeeze as much money out of it as possible.

we can't have a go at Hazard for playing the same game just because he doesn't pick us.

It's nothing to do with him not choosing us, the warning bells were going off a long time ago and I actively didn't want him to come to us after a week or so of his cockteasing twitter updates. He seems like exactly the sort of character we don't want in the dressing room and he's an example of players thinking they're bigger than the club. Fuck that.

The main thing for me after the whole Kia mess is we've decided we don't want to be held to ransom by agents - £7million is over twice as much as any has received before and I think it's right that we've told him to do one.

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Gazzetta dello Sport claims #mcfc are lining up Inter's Wesley Sneijder (27) as an alternative for Hazard and have made enquiries already.

He seems to me exactly the sort of player who would do well for us for a couple of seasons, then we'd sell to Real Madrid for £50m+. I don't blame him for cashing in on the first big move of his career. There doesn't appear to have been any question of his attitude at Lille, he seemed to play every match giving it his all even after he knew he was moving on, actually getting better all the time. I hope I'm wrong and he bombs, but I've got a feeling we've missed out on a pretty special player here.