Former Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel has recalled how Eden Hazard acted at Chelsea.

According to Mikel,Hazard was the laziest player he had ever seen; but he’d go on to produce man of the match displays.

“Everybody wants to be in the starting XI come the weekend and there is no place for you to be like ‘I don’t want to train today’. The only player I saw do that and get away with it was Eden Hazard,” Mikel told Dubai Eye.

“He never trained. The worst. The laziest footballer I have ever seen in my life. But then come the weekend he produces and was man of the match. He comes in then and was like ‘come on guys you see’.”

Mikel added: “I actually think when you look at him now he has lost a lot of weight.

“But when he was at Chelsea the night before a game after dinner, he sits there for like 20 minutes, half an hour, eating rice pudding. He likes his food.

“Then he goes to bed, wakes up on a Saturday morning and is there, he produces. We just let him do whatever he wants.”

Surpisingly, Hazard has failed to live up to his expected heights since moving to Real Madrid.