Roy Keane has launched a withering attack on Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard, claiming he would 'kick him up and down the training pitch' if he were one of his team-mates following the player's threat to quit Stamford Bridge.

Hazard admitted in an interview with French daily Le Parisien earlier this week that it would be 'difficult' to turn down a move to Ligue 1 runaway leaders Paris Saint-Germain, citing his goal of winning the Champions League.

But speaking as a pundit on ITV's Champions League highlights show, Keane could not believe the timing of the comments and pulled no punches in his assessment of the out-of-form Belgian.

Roy Keane was highly critical of Eden Hazard after the Chelsea midfielder admitted an interest in joining PSG

Hazard has been in poor form for the Blues this season after earning a new five-and-a-half-year contract

The former Manchester United midfielder said: ‘I can’t understand these players, he signed an extension of five years only last year, when we saw how brilliant he was… and then he’s coming out with all that nonsense on the eve of a big game.

‘If I was a team-mate of his I would kick him up and down the training pitch. Some of the senior players have got to get hold of him. He’s a talented boy, but his attitude is like a spoilt child. It was absolutely ridiculous.

‘You don’t mind some players sometimes being moody, or having their head turned if they think they might be moving, but once you go on that pitch you’ve still got your pride.

'You’re playing for your team-mates, for your club, for your supporters, for your family. You’ve got to go out and perform, and be moody after the game if need be.'

Former Manchester United midfielder Keane believes some of the senior players at Chelsea need to intervene

The Belgian was again rather anonymous at the Parc des Princes as Chelsea lost the first leg on Tuesday

EDEN HAZARD PL STATS 2015-16 Games played: 23 Goals: none Assists: 4 Yellow cards/ Red card: 2/0 Advertisement

Fellow pundit Glenn Hoddle agreed with Keane's brutally honest assessment, and the former Chelsea player and manager lamented the shortage of senior professionals at the club who could educate players on not believing their own hype.

'Before, they had a [Didier] Drogba, they had John Terry, a Frank Lampard and Petr Cech -experienced players who would’ve stopped that at source.

‘At the end of the day for me, there’s something there. Having signed a five-and-a-half year deal a year ago… if he wants to go back to a league and to a club that wins the league by 30 points each year, he’s not testing himself as a player. That’s what disappoints me.

'He’s got to knuckle down and play well for Chelsea this year, that’s who’s paying his money now.

‘He’s a top player… last year he was exquisite at times, he probably won the league in the first half of last season for Chelsea, and he’s nowhere near that at the moment.'

Former Chelsea player and manager Glenn Hoddle feels Hazard has set his heart on a move back to France