Eden Hazard

But there was a separate deal through affiliated entities from the UAE government that was sending him money on the side through third-party intermediaries.

And it's the same thing that Chelsea did with Eden Hazard when he had to

transfer.

And Willian.

But yeah, just sco- ballooned off his left, off his right foot into the top corner.

So [coughs] these main guys ultimately in a big games, it's not like they're Eden Hazard for example, who would just turn up and do a madness in these games.

But they, they haven't seemed to have really shone in these sort of matches, and it's tough because they- they're usually quite tight games.

Mm.

He's near, but he's 24 years of age.

Yeah.

Eden Hazard, when he was 24, led us to a league title and was easily the best player in the league.

And like you said, when you're describing moments where, "Give me the ball, I'll take care of it.

That Chelsea team was great, but some of their key pieces were, were very prominent in those fi- in those breaches.

Eden Hazard chiefly among them.

But like, but-

And N'Golo Kanté

By the way, hold on.

Don't give me that trophy.

Eden Hazard had been at, uh, Chelsea long enough before, uh, do you know what I mean? Like, if he was bought under the breaches, fine, but everybody knew what they were getting in '16-17, and I actually really like that Chelsea team.

I don't want to besmirch a manager who gets thumped at the Emirates, rejigs the side, makes a wing back out of Victor Moses, and goes on and wins, wins the league.

And the practice was self-reported by the new ownership group upon their takeover.

But the thing is this, the spine of Chelsea's team that won them the title included Eden Hazard, Willian, David Luiz, Nemanja Matic, players who were bought by the club, it's now been confirmed, with the help of undisclosed payments.

So does Mauricio have a point, Simon? He says, "We should've been awarded the Premier League title.

They were punished.

... were, were Chelsea at that time playing and abiding by the same rules as the other 19 clubs?

Well, it remains to be seen if a lot of clubs have abided by the same rules as other clubs, including Manchester City.

But what we've also gotta do, [laughs] the difficulty for people is, the empirical data is what to suggest that actually it was absolutely nailed on that the reasons why they won the league is because of Eden Hazard's contributions, Willian's contributions.

Now, if that empirical data was there, and it probably can be produced in terms of how many goal assists, we don't know which other players would've gone into that position and, and made the same goal assists and how many other times those goal assists made a difference to the outcome.

And then Morgan Rogers, lovely little glancing assist.

Dare I say, Eden Hazard-esque.

When he used to do these little like body flicks and stuff and, you know, just really aware.

We'll talk about Rodgers a little bit more in a moment.

It was to do with basically backhanders, nearly £50 million worth of secret payments to unregistered agents when it comes to transfers.

When you think of some of the players that Chelsea signed during that period, Eden Hazard, etc., etc., those players were influential in Chelsea winning the league that season 2016-17 Spurs finished second Pochettino has now come out and said Chelsea have admitted that they've broken the rules and so therefore the title should be for the team that finished second that team was Spurs these kind of conversations I don't know they never they never feel like solid if you know what I mean

Yeah, I think it is proof that Mauricio Pochettino spurs through and through because he's clamouring for something that happened in the past.

And I get that he's aggrieved by it and rightly so.

It's not their fault because they probably didn't know about it.

They'll certainly claim they didn't know about it.

You can't say that that's Eden Hazard's fault because he was signed illegally, because that's someone else's responsibility, not his responsibility.

His job is to be a player on the pitch.

What did you say, luckily? We had a bit of a chat.

Nathan Jones came up with a great turn of phrase.

Oh, I love it, wasn't it? Isn't it? We had HMB versus chat GPT.

Chat had had quite the week.

You think before putting her on telly, her family would have said something.

Have a little chat.

Anyway, Nathan Jones.

And their teeth fell out.

He was going to come to Tottenham...

What's his name? Eden Hazard.

Eden Hazard was one that was supposed to come to Tottenham.

But who was the other guy? The winger? The winger who went to...

Arjen Robben?