Eden Hazard has retired from professional football - the streets will never forget him

MegadrivePerson said:
Agree.

A very talented player but not one of the all time greats of the Premier League. Not enough end product to be considered a great attacking player.
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Ridiculous statement. He's not that type of player where he should be judged on stats only. His goals and assists stats are actually pretty solid for his role.

I suppose Ribery, Nedved, Giggs, Zidane, Di Maria, Figo, Kaka who all have similar stats to Hazard are also not great attacking players.
 
What a loser.

One of the most overrated player I've ever seen. The way some people hold him up with the likes of Suarez, Aguero, Salah is insane.
 
He was a good player for Chelsea but will probably go down as one of Real Madrids worst ever signings.

I'll always remember him for how he cheated to win the Penalty when Chelsea beat us 1-0 in the FA Cup final.
 
TsuWave said:
Always thought of him as the most overrated supposedly elite player around. I'm seeing him be elevated to ridiculous levels on social media these days, but alas, undoubtedly a very good player and likely legend at Chelsea - and for a brief time was among the best in this league. Career ended a while ago though.

Hope he enjoys his retirement.
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This!!
 
700 matches played is a lot, and I remember he was fouled quite a bit as well. Don't blame him for hanging it up. His career panned out just fine.
 
United fans of all people trying to claim he was overrated is hilarious to me.

We have not had 1 player on his level since Van Persie.

 
JogaBonitoRooney said:
Ridiculous statement. He's not that type of player where he should be judged on stats only. His goals and assists stats are actually pretty solid for his role.

I suppose Ribery, Nedved, Giggs, Zidane, Di Maria, Figo, Kaka who all have similar stats to Hazard are also not great attacking players.
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Most of them played in a different position/era where wide players didn't tend to score as many.

Ribery and Di Maria are a fair comparison though. That's the level I'd place Hazard at. Not right at the very top tier, but the next tier down.
 
Absolutely brilliant player in his prime. The way he breezed past defenders in the wings with that low centre of gravity was a beautiful sight. Made the game look beautiful. Sad that the 'prime' lasted for only a few years.
Wish him happy retirement.
 
He was one of the best dribblers of his generation, although Hazard's dribbles were not as aesthetic as Neymar's, he had a lot of volume.

Rodrygo spoke about Hazard's time at Real Madrid a few months ago:

"[He's a] star. I was a big fan of Hazard. It's a shame he couldn't do it [succeed] at Madrid. For some time, we thought he was gonna do it, but [then] he had an ankle injury and we felt he wasn't gonna be the same afterwards.

"He felt a lot of pain, he had to put a plate in his ankle. He trained normally and then out of nowhere he needed a new surgery. It was difficult for him. Playing with pain is the worst. The ankle bothered him a lot."

https://tribuna.com/en/news/realmad...-went-through-at-real-madrid/?utm_source=copy
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Canagel said:
United fans of all people trying to claim he was overrated is hilarious to me.
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What’s the correlation here? - you can’t think a player is overrated if you support a shit team that hasn’t had many good players recently?
 
Tormented the United defence every single game except that one Herrera man marked him. I knew he wasn't going to make it at Madrid when he joined but retiring at 32 after being released by them wasn't what I would have predicted.

One of the last great wingers the premier league has seen.
 
Saying the streets will never forget him is so rude :lol:
 
TsuWave said:




What’s the correlation here? - you can’t think a player is overrated if you support a shit team that hasn’t had many good players recently?
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The correlation is very simple. Ask yourself why the Chelsea fans that watched him play week in week out are not saying he was overrated. The stats (most importantly dribbling figures that have not been seen since by any player in England), eye test, individual accolades and trophies speak for themselves.

If those same performances were being done for us our fans would universally have rated him. They rate far lesser players than Hazard. It's simple club bias.

Furthermore we devised special plans to combat the skills of this player, again a treatment that was not reserved for any other player or PL star (KDB, Aguero, Salah.. ) so it's even more ironic coming from the United supporters.
 
Got his big move to Madrid then suddenly stopped giving a feck about football, what a shame. Incredible player at Chelsea, one of the best dribblers the league has seen.

If we'd signed him instead of Kagawa it might have delayed our decline a bit.
 
Our fan base is too focused on stats with this overrated talk because of his end product. There were so many games where Hazard was the best player on the pitch without scoring or assisting because his general play was world class for the most part. The antithesis of the type of players we prioritise.
 
Yagami said:
Our fan base is too focused on stats with this overrated talk because of his end product. There were so many games where Hazard was the best player on the pitch without scoring or assisting because his general play was world class for the most part. The antithesis of the type of players we prioritise.
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That is what 10 years of watching mediocrity does. You end up dismissing real players while glorifying actual overrated players.
 
Eden Hazard has to rank highest amongst the most overrated players in Football History. His last few years at Chelsea and Madrid was Quaresma level. Zero Professionalism, zero integrity. Couch potato. Absolutely hate Mourinho but he gauged all these showboats perfectly. Please don't compare this guy to Messi and Ronaldo, don't even put them on the same sentence. People hypothezising him being a success at United have been brainwashed into thinking his youtube skills will somehow translate into on-pitch success for us. We have had many skillful players since Sir Alex, its their attitudes that have been utter shite and players like Hazard would have been toxic for us.
 
It blows my mind how early some footballers retire. 32 is no age to go, is it. But that's directly linked to their professionalism - and you never got that impression with Hazard that he was altogether that careful with his body.
 
Canagel said:
The correlation is very simple. Ask yourself why the Chelsea fans that watched him play week in week out are not saying he was overrated. The stats (most importantly dribbling figures that have not been seen since by any player in England), eye test, individual accolades and trophies speak for themselves.

If those same performances were being done for us our fans would universally have rated him. They rate far lesser players than Hazard. It's simple club bias.

Furthermore we devised special plans to combat the skills of this player, again a treatment that was not reserved for any other player or PL star (KDB, Aguero, Salah.. ) so it's even more ironic coming from the United supporters.
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Respectfully - this post is a mess.

You don't need to be a Chelsea fan to have watched Hazard on a weekly basis, and of course Chelsea fans will rate him. He's their club legend. Moreover, being a United fan doesn't translate into inherent bias against players of other clubs - Henry is a player I rate highly, so was David Silva, Aguero, etc.

United being shit/having shit players doesn't mean United fans lose their ability to watch/appreciate football/players and have to start hailing every player all because they are better than the ones on display at United. What are you even saying? None of what you said is mutually exclusive with him being overrated or perceived as by United fans or anyone for that matter - this sentence makes no sense:

"United fans of all people trying to claim he was overrated is hilarious to me.."

Also - "United manager at the time devised a plan to stop Hazard but him/other United managers haven't done the same for better players therefore Hazard isn't overrated"

What? Is that your argument? Really?
 
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I never understood the "lack of end product" argument. bar that one season under Mou when whole Chelsea fell apart, he scored 14 league goals during the season twice in his Chelsea career and twice he scored 16 league goals during the season. he also scored 20 league goals for Lille before he signed for Chelsea. I mean, how many goals such players should be scoring? keep in mind he scored more league goals just in his Chelsea career than Rashford in his all 9 years at Utd. - and we were actually always satisfied with Rashford's EPL stats, it's the other things we grew tired of in later years.
 
Funny how he's labelled as being overrated but these statements rarely follow someone overrating him. Inventing an opposing opinion to argue with is weird to me.
 
What a waste of talent.

Could have been one of the true greats with discipline and graft.
 
GazTheLegend said:
It blows my mind how early some footballers retire. 32 is no age to go, is it. But that's directly linked to their professionalism - and you never got that impression with Hazard that he was altogether that careful with his body.
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Hazard has a family, they are happy in Madrid, his kids go to school there. Why uproot everyone, or leave them and go elsewhere on your own, to play a little more football? It's not like he needs the money.
 
Canagel said:
United fans of all people trying to claim he was overrated is hilarious to me.

We have not had 1 player on his level since Van Persie.

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Oh yeh I forgot that the team that gets the most dribbles wins the game…He was elite at one facet of the game, often at the detriment of other attributes (for example he’d beat a player just to beat them again). I’ve said this all before, but he never had the ambition to be elite, he had all the ability so it’s a shame!
 
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