Enzo Maresca confirms Marc Guia can leave Chelsea in January

Enzo Maresca has encouraged his CHELSEA youngsters to stay around the first team but hasn’t ruled out striker Marc Guiu heading out on loan in January when the transfer window opens up in just a few weeks time

Guiu has barely had a sniff this term despite impressing over the club’s pre-season tour of the United States over the summer. Signed for as little as £5million from Barcelona, the 18-year-old striker has really struggled to get the game time he would have liked.

Most of his performances have come in the European games this season, and after his hat-trick, there has been many in the media that believe he could develop into a top-class striker in the coming seasons if he gets the chances that he needs.

But despite his recent European hat-trick, Maresca has encouraged his CHELSEA youngsters to stay around the first team but hasn’t ruled out striker Marc Guiu heading out on loan in January: “I think with young players like Marc (Guiu), like Josh (Acheampong), like Ty (Tyrique George), for me the best thing for them is to be with us.

“They can understand every day the way we want to play, they can grow, we can teach them how we want them to play, so I think it’s better if they stay with us.

“Then it depends a little bit also on the desire of the players. If, in this case, Marc’s desire is to get more minutes and to play more, we sit with him and we decide together.”

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He needs game time, he needs minutes and he needs to play on a regular basis, if that is not happening at Stamford Bridge – then a loan move is the right thing to do for the lad that is for sure.

But the lad has the potential to be a regular starter here at Stamford Bridge

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