'No Plans To Sell Hazard'  (Sky Sports)

Chelsea have no plans to sell Eden Hazard this summer, with new boss Antonio Conte expected to get the best out of the playmaker next season, according to the Sunday Supplement panel.

Hazard has endured a torrid campaign at Stamford Bridge, with the Belgium international yet to score a goal in his 26 Premier League appearances for the club.

The 25-year-old has found the back of the net just twice in 38 matches in all competitions, in stark contrast to the impressive form he displayed for Chelsea last season.

Then, Hazard was voted the double Footballer of the Year as Jose Mourinho's side won the Premier League.

However, despite reports claiming Chelsea are keen to offload the player for £80m this summer, Sam Wallace told the Sunday Supplement that the west London club are in fact keen to keep him at Stamford Bridge.

"He has had a dreadful season, there are no two ways about it," the Daily Telegraph's chief football writer said.

"The feeling at Chelsea is that it would be foolish to sell him, he has been the Player of the Year. Twelve months ago he was a very good player and they believe he will be a good player again.

"And it goes back to the point we made earlier about what does a great manager do? Does he come in and buy a whole new team? Or does he work with what he has got and try and improve it?"

Wallace also thinks it is unlikely Chelsea will embark on a massive clear out of players this summer.

"I think the mood at Chelsea is that we have actually got some good players here," Wallace said. "They were champions 12 months ago. Yes, of course, like every team there needs to be changes.

"We often have this call for a clear out in the summer, but when has there ever been a clear out at a top club? When have seven or eight players ever left? Maybe if they get relegated and it is in the contracts that they go, or the contracts are unsustainable in the Championship.

"But you do not tend to see seven, eight, or nine players leaving a club. I mean Southampton is probably the closest, and that was because they were so successful.

"So I do not think they envisage massive changes and they certainly do not envisage selling Hazard because he is, for all his faults, a player who is very highly regarded."

However, Wallace says that one of the first tasks Conte - who was recently confirmed as Chelsea's manager next season - must undertake after taking over at the Bridge will be to try and return Hazard to the levels of last season.

"I think there would be people biting Chelsea's hand off to sign him," Wallace added. "He has had a terrible season, no two ways about it and we may never know why.

"But certainly one of the things the new manager will be expected to do will be to get the best out of him."

Another player Conte will want to keep at Chelsea next season will be striker Diego Costa, according to Martin Hardy.

"He has still scored 15 goals this season and fought his way back after a poor start, a bit like Chelsea," said The Times' football writer.

"If you were the incoming manager of Chelsea, you would want a centre forward who knows how to play the English game and can guarantee you some goals.

"So that seems like a no-brainer to keep him. You obviously need to add some new players in that squad desperately. They need to be a bit more dynamic.

"Do you rescue Hazard or kind of cast him aside? These are all questions and decisions that he [Conte] has to make fairly quickly. But it needs someone else apart from Costa as well.

"But as I said, you would want to keep him."

And Hardy feels Chelsea will only be looking to sign "three or four" new players this summer.

"Well you would probably get a cut-price John Stones this summer, so that is the first one," Hardy added. "You would then want to buy a proper world-class centre forward and maybe someone who could dictate the game as well.

"So it is always three or four, is it not? Three or four added to Chelsea, and you would be saying - which you would probably say anyway, they should be challenging for the top six - and that might get them back into the top four.

"And then this season becomes the blip that they hope it was."