Chelsea Star out for 3 months, will miss start of next season: Confirmed reports

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Eden Hazard will be sidelined for about three months after undergoing surgery on a broken ankle on Monday, the Premier League champions announced.

Hazard, 26, suffered the injury during a training session while on international duty with Belgium on Sunday.

He returned to Cobham to be assessed by Chelsea’s medical staff, who concluded that an operation was required.

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Hazard is now almost certain to miss the whole of Chelsea’s preseason programme, which includes fixtures in China and Singapore, and faces a fight to be fit for the start of the new Premier League season in August.

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The injury is also likely to put an end to persistent speculation linking Hazard with a move to Real Madrid this summer.