The former agent of Real Madrid attacker Eden Hazard says he should’ve joined Barcelona.
Real Madrid signed Hazard in 2019 for €120m.
But John Vico told La Dernière Heure: “It was a mistake to go to Real at that time. It is his choice. A choice of heart but no reason. He should have gone a year before or later but never the year Ronaldo left. Passing after him is like scaling the Himalayas with bare hands. You have to know how to dare to say no to Eden and, unfortunately, some do not dare. I would have advised him against it telling him to go the year before or to leave through the Chelsea gate a year later.”
On Real Madrid, Vico continued: “People do not realise and forget the athletic dimension of this team which has a game with a lot of physical demands in terms of rhythm and intensity because the technical level of the team is approaching 10/10.
“Great talents like James have failed to adapt. On this point, Eden is not a player for Real but for Barça. It is at Barça where he should have gone, where the ball runs more than the players unlike Real where the project does not correspond to the physiological memory of his body. That’s why he’s cracking up everywhere. He should have stayed an extra season at Chelsea to go through the front door and above all prepare his body for the changes to come.
“At Barça, he would have had a blast, he would have had more freedom on the pitch, he would have had the ball constantly at his feet.”