The 25-year-old has been linked with a move away from
the Premier League side after a terrible campaign, but his brother
insists there is no chance he will leave this summer
After a disastrous season with Chelsea, Eden Hazard’s future at the Premier League side has been in doubt, prompting links to a move to Real Madrid as part of a €75 million swap deal for Alvaro Morata.
The 25-year-old was heavily criticised throughout the campaign as he scored just four goals in 31 Premier League games as the Blues finished 10th in the English top-flight, despite winning the title the previous year - a season in which Hazard was named PFA Player of the Year.
The former Lille star, who captained Belgium to the Euro 2016 quarter-finals, has long been linked with a move to Madrid, with Chelsea said to be interested in snapping up highly-rated striker Morata from the European champions.
However, the player's younger brother, Kylian, maintains there is no chance of a move developing, insisting Eden has no desire to leave Stamford Bridge.
“He will stay at Chelsea, he is happy at Chelsea,” Kylian told Goal. “He loves London. It is good for him there and he says the facilities are great.
“It is one of the biggest teams in the world. He will be special again for them next year.”
Hazard's form picked up significantly towards the end of the campaign as all of his goals came in his last five league matches, including a wondergoal to prevent rivals Tottenham from winning the title, and he was able to carry that level onto the Euros, where he scored one and set up four in five games.
New coach Antonio Conte arrives at Chelsea next week and will need to improve upon last season's displays and Kylian Hazard believes signings like Michy Batshuayi will help.
“Chelsea is a great team for Belgians at the minute.” he added. “You see it with another Belgian arriving in Michy Batshuayi as well as Thibaut Courtois.
“Batshuayi will do really well at Chelsea and he can help Diego Costa, including times like last season when he was injured, and score goals. He will work with Eden well just as they did for Belgium.
“They know each other now and we have talked about Michy's move. We think he will be really good.”
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Kylian currently plays for Ujpest in Hungary, and the 20-year-old hopes to follow in the footsteps of his two brothers, with both Eden and Thorgan, who who plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach, plying their trade at a high level.
Kylian scored three goals last season including one agaisnt Hungary's goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly and he joked that his brother took his advice before scoring past the goalkeeper in Belgium’s 4-0 win in Toulouse.
"He knew to ask me about Hungary and I told him that I had scored against that goalkeeper and how I did it, so maybe that helped, who knows.
"My career ambitions are to win the title with Ujpest, my agent brought me here and it is a good place to develop, then maybe move one day to a league with 40,000 and 50,000 fans and I want to play for Belgium just like my brothers."
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