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It's at the point by HTownND

If Real come in with a ton of cash for he and Courtois, I'm OK selling at this point.

They are both amazing talents, but I'm sort of over the constant transfer speculation. It is interesting though, because Hazard is headlining the "kit reveal" publicity for next season. Chelsea has never had someone who was sold during the summer as the "cover boy", so it could be interesting (and the new kits suck. Better than the crap from Adidas, but I was hoping for a little better from Nike).

And I'll take Hazard on my team, any day, but he does shrink a bit when the lights are brightest. He may be able to turn that around somewhere else, who knows, but it's been a fairly consistent pattern. When we need him to step up and dominate possession and games, he's nowhere to be seen. But then he'll do something amazing, and you sort of forget that he was a no show last week when we needed him.