Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti: ‘I don’t have cold relationship with Eden Hazard’

Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti has performed down strategies that he has a frosty relationship with Eden Hazard.

The winger price within the area of £128m when he signed from Chelsea in 2019 and stays as one of many membership’s greatest earners.

Nevertheless, Hazard has successfully been frozen out on the Bernabeu beneath Ancelotti, that includes for simply 296 minutes all through 2022-23.

His final look got here in a Copa del Rey tie firstly of the yr, and the 32-year-old has remained as an unused substitute within the final 17 La Liga fixtures the place he has been named on the substitutes’ bench.

Regardless of having no future at Los Blancos, Hazard has insisted that he has no intention of departing the membership till the top of his contract in 2024.

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In a latest interview with RTBF, the playmaker acknowledged that he had respect for Ancelotti and any choices that he made, however revealed that ‘they don’t speak to one another’.

These feedback had been addressed at a press convention on Tuesday as Real put together to tackle Liverpool within the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.

Whereas Ancelotti echoed Hazard’s opinion that there was a mutual respect between them, he dismissed speak that the pair held ‘a cold relationship’.

The Italian mentioned: “The relationship shouldn’t be cold. You have to worth each views. Hazard has been very sincere, we don’t speak a lot as a result of it might be a matter of character.

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“An important factor for me, that if we don’t speak a lot, he nonetheless respects me. It is crucial factor, similar to I respect him.

“He does not play as a result of he has loads of competitors and a participant in his place who’s taking part in very properly, which is Vinicius (Junior).”

Hazard is predicted to be named within the squad for Wednesday’s fixture with Liverpool, albeit as backup, and he has 132 minutes of Champions League soccer beneath his belt this marketing campaign.

The final of these three outings got here on October 11 when he performed the ultimate 14 minutes of a 3-2 defeat at RB Leipzig.