That’s according to Robbie Fowler who says a behind the scenes deal could have prompted the Belgian maestro’s stunning form.
Hazard been a standout performer for the Blues in the opening weeks of this campaign.
He bagged a hat-trick last week in a virtuoso performance against Cardiff.
Hazard was heavily linked with a move to Real Madrid in the summer but a move failed to materialise.
Fowler has likened the situation to Luis Suarez’s protracted transfer saga during his Liverpool days.
Arsenal submitted a cheeky £40,000,001 offer for the Uruguayan before he eventually moved to Barcelona 12 months later.
Fowler wrote in The Mirror: “The summer he tried to force a move to Arsenal, I was convinced that it would end in tears when he was kicked off that pre-season tour.
“I remember playing alongside him soon after, in Steven Gerrard’s testimonial.
“Actually, I reckon the only foot he put wrong all season was when he underhit a pass to me, and didn’t put me in for a certain goal!
“But even though we knew he was gutted not to be moving – and would have done anything to go – he never let it show.
“It probably improved him, in fact.
“Hazard seems to have started like that and that could make a huge difference to Chelsea’s season.
“I don’t know what’s been said behind the scenes or if he’s got an agreement, but [Maurizio] Sarri’s management has been spot-on.”
Sarri was snapped up by the Blues after the Italian parted company with Napoli.
He had never managed in England and took up coaching as a late career change having previously been a banker.
Fowler says he’s been impressed with the maverick coach.
He added: “He’s made it about the team, about the games, about the players and about the football not any of the dramas off the pitch like they had last season.
“In fact, virtually every game, it was about who they hadn’t signed, rather than the players they had.
“Sarri has changed that, he’s put the focus on what Hazard is doing, not what he wants to do, or wanted to do in the summer.
“Maybe that’s what the player [Hazard] needs.
“The club has been stabilised, no doubt.
“There is a sense of them heading in the right direction as a team, and there is an efficiency about them, which was lacking last season.”
