With the poetry, seamless timing and exquisite grace that Eden Hazard showed throughout seven years at Stamford Bridge as a player, it is only fitting that his inevitable announcement of departure from Real Madrid was so perfectly weighted.
Four years to the very week that both Chelsea and Los Blancos revealed to the world what they already knew, the 32-year-old's time was up in Spain. Just like nobody played any tricks in 2019, the whole show pulled off without a curtain or stage, in full view of the public, his ending was as obvious as the start.
He played more league minutes within 17 days of his final season in England than he did in the entirity of this purgatory year at Santiago Bernabeu. Cutting his deal short should come as no shock, this is a player that has forever engaged and indulged in this game for pure enjoyment.
