Jose Mourinho is not concerned by reports that Real Madrid will make a move to sign Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard this summer and suggested the Spanish giants would have to bid "£100m for each leg" to have any chance of prizing the him out of Stamford Bridge.
Mourinho was responding to comments from Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane, who suggested Hazard -- who is set to be crowned as PFA Player of the Year -- was now among the top three players in the world alongside Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Zidane talked up the talents of Gareth Bale before he moved to Real Madrid in the summer of 2013 and his platitudes for Hazard have led to speculation that the reigning Champions League holders will try to sign the Belgian this summer.
However, Mourinho has said he feels he would already know if Real Madrid wanted Hazard because he still has a good relationship with the men in charge of the club he managed for three years starting in 2010.
"If Real Madrid want him, I think I would be the first one to know, but if they do it would be £100m for each leg," Mourinho said, as he put an extravagant price on the Hazard's head.
"I don't believe they are trying to sign him because they didn't tell me. My relationship with their President and with the CEO doesn't give space for something to happen behind my back. I trust them completely. If they want him they get on the telephone and they call me to tell me they want him."
Mourinho praised Hazard -- who has said he is happy at Stamford Bridge -- as a perfect role model on and off the field.
"He wants to be a special player and a normal person," Mourinho continued. "In football it's a lot the culture now of being a special player and a special person. This is not him.
"He's a fantastic boy, a golden boy. The way he behaves, the way he wants to be, the way he respects people, even the way he respects opponents. He doesn't cheat. He doesn't dive. Nothing. So I think, even for opponents, I think he's a fantastic kid."
Mourinho suggested winning the PFA award will count for nothing in Hazard's eyes when compared to the Premier League title winner's medal he is set to collect in the coming weeks.
"The title is what gives you more credit, not the individual award, it's not the comments from the pundits or the former stars," Mourinho added.
"If we win the title he knows that he was fundamental in the team season. This is what he deserves. He deserves to be champion. This is what he deserves.
"It's a crucial period in a player's career, which is when you are a big talent and you become a big player. It's a crucial step. He did that naturally in these three years that he's at Chelsea. He was proven right that the move he did from Lille was the right move.
"I just feel him also with a great motivation to win the title. When you have great motivations, you go over fatigue, you go over little pains."