The Chelsea manager, Maurizio Sarri, will thrash out Eden Hazard’s future “eye to eye” when the Belgian returns to the club tomorrow, with a £300,000-a-week new contract on the table to encourage him to change his mind about joining Real Madrid.

Chelsea are desperate to prevent the exit of their star talent to Spain with Thibaut Courtois already trying to force a move to Real, and Sarri wants to persuade Hazard, who returns to the club later than the majority of his colleagues owing to Belgium’s extended World Cup involvement, to stay before the transfer window shuts in England on Thursday afternoon.

“I talked with him yesterday,” Sarri said on Friday when asked about the player’s future. “We didn’t talk about this. We talked only