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Jose Mourinho admits he would love to have Eden Hazard at Manchester United

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Jose Mourinho is up against it ahead of Manchester Uniteds trip to Chelsea (Picture: Getty)

Jose Mourinho admits that he would love to have Eden Hazard at Manchester United – but knows Chelsea will never sell the forward to a direct rival.

Hazard, 27, has had a scintillating start to the season, scoring ten goals in 14 appearances for club and country, and his sensational early-season form continues to fuel rumours of a big-money move to Real Madrid.

The Belgian will hope to be on the scoresheet once again when Chelsea host United at Stamford Bridge against former boss Mourinho.

Hazard was rumoured to have fallen out with Mourinho during Chelseas disastrous defence of their Premier League title in 2015/16 before the latters sacking.

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However, Mourinho insists he has no problem with Hazard and even revealed that he would welcome the winger to United with open arms.

I would love to have him at United but I dont think Chelsea will sell him, the Portuguese said ahead of Uniteds trip to Chelsea.

Chelsea is led by intelligent and experienced people and they would never sell Eden to Manchester United.

Eden Hazard has been on sensational form this season (Picture: Getty)

He is a nice kid. We had a good relationship. We were champions together.

He was for the first time the best player in the league with me, so I think the feelings are good.

Eden Hazard has the worst season of his career under Jose Mourinho (Picture: Getty)

Asked about his relationship with Mourinho earlier this week, Hazard told HLN: The last season under Mourinho was not pleasant anymore, we didnt win, we got into a sort of routine, training-training without having fun, it was better for all parties that the collaboration came to an end.

But if Im now asked one coach with whom I want to work again, then I say: Mourinho.

If the results are poor, he starts criticising his players – you know that, but afterwards Ive been able to accept that, its part of his character.

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If you win, Mourinho is the best coach you can imagine. Then he is a friend of yours – you can do whatever you want [laughs]. Want one day off, he gives you two. If everything goes well, Mourinho will experience football like me: with ease.

Even his own image of an extremely defensive coach was not too bad. He is far from adventurous like Guardiola, but the year in which we became champions, we have made many goals and played good games.

I do not regret many things in my career, but that I have not been able to work with Mourinho at Chelsea anymore [is one]. We had a team to get a lot of prizes, but we just ended up in a negative spiral.