Hazard explains turning up overweight for first Real Madrid preseason

Eden Hazard has explained turning up overweight for his first preseason with Real Madrid.

Chelsea great Hazard announced his retirement last summer after four difficult years in Madrid.

He recalled to L'Equipe: "With Chelsea I'd just finished one of the best seasons of my career.

"I said to myself, 'now that I'm at Real Madrid, this is perhaps the last vacation I'll be able to take'

"And I let go of myself like I let go of myself every summer. Seven years in England, without a break at Christmas, giving everything, so when I have three or four weeks of vacation, 'don't bother me,' barbecues, ros wine all that.

"And that's what allowed me to reset myself to start again. Then, Real, it went wrong and that's it."

Hazard added: "They say I was a slacker. But I haven't spent 16 years [as a professional] without training. The little games, the little runs, I was there.

"It's true that some mornings I arrived without sleeping well, not feeling like it, no desire, and when it's like that, I show it.

"Don't give me the ball. I'm making a square metre and I'm not moving! I don't move.

"And I don't move for an hour. An hour of tactics? 'Can I go with the physio?'"