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Real Madrid will play all the cards at his disposal as part of his mission to sign Eden Hazard, with the key being Mateo Kovacic.
Chelsea has set its price at £ 100 million (116 million euros), according to British media. And Madrid plans to cover most of this amount by selling the currently loaned Croat to Chelsea and Bayern Munich Loanee James Rodriguez.
Kovacic and James are two players that Zidane considers consumables and occupy positions similar to those of the two main objectives of this summer: Hazard and Paul Pogba. Kovacic has performed well at Stamford Bridge since borrowing last summer, and on Sunday, Chelsea boss Mauricio Sarri has admitted he wants him to stay.
"I would very much like Kovacic to stay with us. You know very well that in this position we have some problems because we only have Jorginho, " said the Italian coach, saying that any deal on Hazard should include Croatian.
Chelsea expects FIFA's ban to be lifted
In February, FIFA banned Chelsea from recruiting new players for the next two transfer windows for violating the rules of signing 25 minor players. But Chelsea and Madrid expect the sanction to be reduced to a warning following the call of the Premier League club.
That figure plus the 42 million euros that Bayern Munich would pay to exercise the option to buy on James would cover 92 million of the 116 million euros requested by The Blues.
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