Hazard: I can't deny that I was overweight, but when I'm on vacation, I'm on vacation Real Madrid Lost the excess quickly

Eden Hazard had a lot of people talking when he reported for Real Madrid duty last summer packing some extra pounds and the Belgian admits he arrived in Spain overweight.

Having signed at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu from Chelsea, Hazard turned up looking a little out of shape.

"It's true, I can't lie," Hazard told Sport and Foot Magazine when asked if he was overweight when he came to Madrid.

"But if I'm on vacation, I'm on vacation.

"I gained five kilos in the summer. I'm someone who puts on weight very quickly but I can lose it fast as well.

"When I was 18 at Lille I weighed 72 or 73 kilos, then 75 when I added some muscle and on a bad day it was 77.

"In the summer I was 80 kilos but I lost it again in 10 days."

Hazard long wanted to work under Zinedine Zidane before finally making his move, and he admits that playing at Real Madrid was something he thought about regularly since 2016.

"We don't have the same style as players, and he was technically better than me," Hazard added.

"You look at him and you get the impression that he always has a good time with football.

"He called me during the 2016 European Championship and told me he wanted me to come.

"That has always stuck in my head."

Now that he's under the tutelage of Zidane he's enjoying the daily work with the Frenchman.

"The sessions are always with the ball," Hazard revealed.

"I spent three years with Italian coaches like [Antonio] Conte and [Maurizio] Sarri and that's much less pleasant.

"I'm rediscovering something that I like."

The winger has always been infatuated by the idea of playing for Real Madrid, which he's never make any secrets of.

"In my garden I played and pretended to be with Madrid," he admitted.

"Zidane was my idol. When I saw the Bernabeu on the TV it was magical.

"The white shirt was impeccable.

"I went to Spain on vacation, not to Madrid, and everyone talked to me about Real Madrid when we played and we watched their games."