Eden Hazard signs new five-and-a-half-year deal worth £200,000-per-week with Chelsea

• Eden Hazard has signed a new five-year contract at Stamford Bridge
• The Belgian winger's new deal is set to be worth up to £200,000 per week
• The deal is worth a huge £57million over the course of five and a half years 

Eden Hazard has become the first big-money beneficiary of the lucrative Premier League TV rights deal after penning a new contract worth a whopping £57million.

Chelsea have confirmed the Belgium international has penned a new five-and-a-half year contract worth £200,000-per-week.

The news comes in a week that the Premier League confirmed a £5billion deal with Sky Sports and BT Sport to show live matches over three seasons from the start of the 2016-17 campaign. 

Eden Hazard, with Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia, has signed a new five-year contract with Chelsea

Hazard signs a new contract in the presence of club secretary David Barnard and Granovskaia

The 24-year-old poses inside Stamford Bridge after signing his new deal with the club

The Belgian playmaker has scored 13 goals in all competitions for Chelsea this season

WHO IS MARINA GRANOVSKAIA?

After sealing deals for the likes of Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas and even Jose Mourinho himself in the past, director Marina Granovskaia has quickly become the most influential figure at the club.

A Canadian and Russian national, Granovskaia is the voice of owner Roman Abramovich on the ground. She is trusted implicitly by Abramovich, having advised him and his companies for 17 years since graduating from Moscow State University.

She was central to Mourinho’s return from Real Madrid and to big-money transfers such as Costa’s £32million move from Atletico Madrid.

Her style is perhaps best described as polite but firm, although there are stories that it went a little further than that during John Terry’s contract talks.

The staggering TV rights package will see increased revenue for Premier League clubs and is likely to result in increased transfer fees and wages.

And Hazard's deal - which puts him amongst the highest paid at Stamford Bridge - merely underlines the growing financial power of clubs in England's top-flight.

The Belgian's new deal has been an open secret for some time, with manager Jose Mourinho insisting on several occasions that the talented forward would extend his contract.

'The manager has helped me improve a lot, the fans have been fantastic and I have an amazing understanding with my team-mates,' Hazard said. 

Hazard celebrates scoring Chelsea's first goal during a 2-1 win against Aston Villa last weekend 

'I always try to give pleasure to the supporters with my style of play and it is nice to know they appreciate my work.

'I hope we can repay that support by winning lots of trophies, beginning with the Capital One Cup at Wembley, and after that, we can push hard towards the end of the season.'

Mourinho added: 'I am very happy that Eden has signed a new contract.

'It shows he believes in the club's coaching staff and players to help him become the best player in the world.

'He is already a top player and his evolution has been fantastic. He is still very young and he can become the best.'

Hazard's new deal looks set to be worth worth a huge £57million over the course of five and a half years

Jose Mourinho had revealed that he wasn't concerned by the length of time Hazard's deal seemed to take

Hazard (left) was named PFA Young Player of the Year at the end of last season