Chelsea’s Eden Hazard suggested he had played his last game for the club after his two goals helped the Blues beat Arsenal 4-1 in the Europa League final.
The Belgium forward has been linked with a move to Real Madrid and said he is now “waiting on both clubs”.
“I think it’s a goodbye but in football you never know,” the 28-year-old told BT Sport after Wednesday’s match.
But Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri said: “I know he wants to leave and I have to respect his decision.”
Sarri added: “He is a wonderful player. It took two or three months for me to understand him as a man and now I do, he’s a wonderful man.
“He’s an extraordinary player. He is a strange boy but when he understands it is extraordinary.”
If the final in Baku was Hazard’s final match, then it brings to an end a seven-year association with Chelsea, having joined them for £32m from Lille in 2012.
