Official : Eden Hazard to Real Madrid

Hazard was never this injury prone. There is nothing suggesting those guys you mentioned wouldn't have gotten perma injured had they joined us too

He is out for 4 weeks now

Fennec's post has a lot of truth to it. I think Hazard is not taking good care of himself, but at the same time I do think our medical team is beyond crap.

By the way, this isn't the first time someone was doing okay and then immediately became exponentially more injury prone once they sign for Madrid. I also remember reading on Marca not too long ago that Zidane was furious with the medical team and has ordered the club to open an investigation over the striking and ever-growing number of injuries. But the issue seems to have stopped there because there has been no followup articles. So it's either BS or must have been resolved behind closed doors.

So yeah I definitely share everybody's frustration on here with Hazard, but the medical team has definitely a lot of question marks to answer.

I saw some of our guys doing jumping leg presses during the preseason. It’s actually incredible how behind sports science is in football. You see coaches and teams that do it correctly (pep with man city, Bayern in general) and it’s no wonder those teams enjoy lots of success.

That being said there is a point where you have to be assertive, and take control of your fitness. Look at benzema; guy was fat for half a decade and he’s now by far one of the fittest guys at the club. He’s in the gym EVERY day. Ramos, Valverde, Llorente (who doesn’t play for us but still) , just guys I see posting their workouts every single day. I’m not saying you need to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, but a good work ethic goes a long way

Aint laughing about dembele anymore now are you

FennecFox7 wrote:We have an awful medical team. The blame lies largely on them. However it’s absolutely a work ethic problem with hazard as well, there’s no question about it. Players like messi are naturally injury prone but they watch their diet, rehab carefully etc. hazard isn’t one of those players. I got laughed off when I suggested we go after mane; salah or even Mahrez, at the very least we would have a player who plays. Hazard is finished and it’s more due to his own actions versus anything else

Messi naturally injury prone?

This is a weird thing to say considering he has been kicked probably more than any other player and yet he's never injured. Diet helps but it's not everything

I recall something about Cristiano Ronaldo preferring to have his personal doctor treat him, over the one assigned to him by Real Madrid. Do you guys remember what I'm talking about?

Myesyats wrote:Aint laughing about dembele anymore now are you  

They both deserve laughing at. It's never been a secret that both of them lack the level of discipline that you'd expect from athletes at this level

Myesyats wrote:

FennecFox7 wrote:We have an awful medical team. The blame lies largely on them. However it’s absolutely a work ethic problem with hazard as well, there’s no question about it. Players like messi are naturally injury prone but they watch their diet, rehab carefully etc. hazard isn’t one of those players. I got laughed off when I suggested we go after mane; salah or even Mahrez, at the very least we would have a player who plays. Hazard is finished and it’s more due to his own actions versus anything else

Messi naturally injury prone?

This is a weird thing to say considering he has been kicked probably more than any other player and yet he's never injured. Diet helps but it's not everything

Actually back then messi was getting injured a lot as a kid. He changed his diet and reduced certain foods. I firmly believe this was a big difference

Thimmy wrote:I recall something about Cristiano Ronaldo preferring to have his personal doctor treat him, over the one assigned to him by Real Madrid. Do you guys remember what I'm talking about?

I don't know if we're referring to the same thing here, but I still remember back in 2016 reading something about Ronaldo dropping the Real Madrid medical team after suffering a relapse to his injury.

This was back when Olmo was still the head of the medical unit.

The Demon of Carthage wrote:

Thimmy wrote:I recall something about Cristiano Ronaldo preferring to have his personal doctor treat him, over the one assigned to him by Real Madrid. Do you guys remember what I'm talking about?

I don't know if we're referring to the same thing here, but I still remember back in 2016 reading something about Ronaldo dropping the Real Madrid medical team after suffering a relapse to his injury.

This was back when Olmo was still the head of the medical unit.

That might be it. My memory of it is so vague at this point.

FennecFox7 wrote:That being said there is a point where you have to be assertive, and take control of your fitness. Look at benzema; guy was fat for half a decade and he’s now by far one of the fittest guys at the club. He’s in the gym EVERY day. Ramos, Valverde, Llorente (who doesn’t play for us but still) , just guys I see posting their workouts every single day. I’m not saying you need to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, but a good work ethic goes a long way

Any images of Benzema being fat for half a decade?

Varnagel wrote:

FennecFox7 wrote:That being said there is a point where you have to be assertive, and take control of your fitness. Look at benzema; guy was fat for half a decade and he’s now by far one of the fittest guys at the club. He’s in the gym EVERY day. Ramos, Valverde, Llorente (who doesn’t play for us but still) , just guys I see posting their workouts every single day. I’m not saying you need to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, but a good work ethic goes a long way

Any images of Benzema being fat for half a decade?

As much as it annoys me that you're baiting Chadangel to start on another one of his hate-fueled obsessions for Higuaín that seem to linger for months and years, I've gotta applaud the timing and wittiness of that reply

Hasn't Ramos also got his own medical staff. I remember reading that too

About to miss his 6th straight Clasico.

Never seen a bigger fraud in my life

Even owen was more useful at Madrid

He was never injury prone at Chelsea, despite how many fouls and tackles were committed against him. Maybe it is age and accumulation of stuff, but maybe it is Madrid medical staff.

Sad to see how his move to Madrid has turned out to be.

He actually has waaay outdone Bale. Bale did some really good stuff for Madrid early on. Hazard... nothing. Literally nothing.

Re his injuries. Hazard has been notorious since his days at Lille for NOT training hard and not taking care of his body in the off-season. When you get older, that catches up to you fast.

Firenze wrote:He's a complete fraud and a few games in the WC won't change that

enjoy dropping 100m on him though Nick

un prophete

halamadrid2 wrote:About to miss his 6th straight Clasico.

Never seen a bigger fraud in my life

Not like it would have mattered. The man couldn't even perform vs Sheriff.

Hazard has discomfort in his soleus muscle and will not be available to play against Athletic Bilbao


Ridiculous how this guy isn't getting as much hate as Bale is getting despite doing feck all in his whole RM career

I've never seen as much excuses put forth for a guy as this guy. It's like a child they want to protect at all costs

Bale doesn't get hated just because of his injury record, injuries can be anything from bad luck to not taking care of yourself. Bale gets the hate he does because of things like the demands he insisted on to play centrally while not justifying it, all the mutterings that spew out of Barnett, and nonsense like "Wales - Golf - Madrid - in that order". Sure, there are similarities in terms of them not really taking proper care of themselves, but the hate Bale gets extends beyond just injuries

Nivash wrote:Bale doesn't get hated just because of his injury record, injuries can be anything from bad luck to not taking care of yourself.

... and doping.

Every top player is doping. News flash. More at 10.

Yeah but Bale's doping was the most obvious one, and directly responsible of his injury woes. More at summer '14.

I'm sure you have plenty of evidence to back these claims of PED-induced injuries.