• Farewell to Asensio "He has managed to enter the history of our club"

Real Madrid continues to accelerate with the renewal of its squad and the last to find the exit door has been Eden Hazard. The white club confirmed on Saturday the goodbye of the Belgian, one of the players least used by Carlo Ancelotti throughout the season. The end of the sad journey of a winger for which the Whites paid 115 million euros to Chelsea in 2019.

After the farewells of Marco Asensio and Mariano Díaz, announced between Friday and Saturday, Madrid issued a statement where it specified the break with Hazard, who still had one more year of contract. However, the high profile of the player, around 30 million gross per season, and his poor performance on the pitch have precipitated events.

According to the letter made public late in the afternoon, Real Madrid has reached an agreement by which the player "is disassociated from the club as of June 30." Likewise, the entity chaired by Florentino Pérez expresses its "affection" to the Belgian international "and wishes him and his whole family good luck in this new stage".

Only two minor injuries

The lack of confidence of Ancelotti, who in the summer thought of the Belgian as a potential replacement for Karim Benzema at the top of the attack, was soon evident. Since October 25, when he played the final stretch of the Champions League match in Leipzig, he did not play again until January 3, against Cacereño in the Copa del Rey. His residual role also reached the League, where he did not appear again until April 2, during the thrashing of Valladolid.

Unlike previous seasons, when injuries thwarted any attempt at continuity, this year Hazard only had to regret a sprained ankle in January and discomfort in the patellar tendon of his left knee, just a few weeks later.

His overall baggage, therefore, was reduced to one goal and two assists in 10 games of Champions, La Liga and Copa del Rey, half of them as a starter. Among the players of the first white squad, only Jesús Vallejo, Álvaro Odriozola and Mariano Díaz played fewer minutes than him (392).

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