Chelsea’s Maurizio Sarri in no rush to contact Hazard and Courtois on futures

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Maurizio Sarri will wait until Thibaut Courtois and Eden Hazard are back from their holidays before holding talks with the Belgian pair about their Chelsea futures.

Real Madrid are understood to be in talks with Chelsea over a possible £35m deal for Courtois and have also targeted Hazard after selling Cristiano Ronaldo to Juventus. Yet Sarri insisted he would not speak to either player on the phone, after finally replacing Antonio Conte as the London club’s manager, even though they are due to return to training only shortly before the English transfer window closes on 9 August.

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from Football | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2mqvLnx