Chelsea Legend, Gus Poyet believes Mykhailo Mudryk has the potential to emulate Eden Hazard’s Chelsea heroics and has called for “patience” with the £89m winger.
During Hazard’s seven-year at Stamford Bridge, he scored 110 goals and provided 92 assists in 352 appearances, which prompted Real Madrid to pay €100 million (£88m/$112m) for the Belgian in the summer of 2019.
The Blues have paid a similar amount for the Ukrainian attacker Mudryk, but he has failed to score in his first eight appearances for the club and is yet to adjust to the demands of English football. However, Poyet believes that the former Shakhtar Donetsk star has the potential to follow in Hazard’s footsteps and has urged the fans to be patient with him.
The former Chelsea midfielder told Standard Sport: “Explosive, direct, very, very quick. The job Mudryk will have in the future is what Eden Hazard did at Chelsea — he’s that type of player and the potential is there. Ninety-nine per cent of the time, you don’t sign that quantity of players in January. That was the biggest surprise for me. If we analyse the players they bought, there is definitely a plan. They are players that have been signed for the future. The new message is patience.”
