Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca has revealed he warned striker Marc Guiu over his poor performances in coaching earlier this month.
The 19-year-old had a season-long mortgage transfer to Sunderland cancelled after simply three appearances on the finish of the summer time switch window because the Blues sought to reshuffle their squad within the wake of Liam Delap’s hamstring harm.
Nonetheless, Guiu didn’t play for a month till a late cameo towards Liverpool previous to this month’s worldwide break.
The Spanish ahead then scored his first aim of the season in Chelsea’s 5-1 Champions League thrashing of Ajax on Wednesday.
And forward of Saturday’s go to of Sunderland to Stamford Bridge, Maresca mentioned: “We had a chat with Marc two weeks in the past. I informed him the best way he was coaching, I did not like and he wants to vary.
“He modified and he will get an opportunity. It’s like that. He was not coaching nicely, in all of the methods.”
Requested why that was the case, Maresca continued: “I do not know. That is why younger [players], they’re generally, they’re in a technique, the opposite manner, so you want to go slowly, slowly with them.
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“Since we chat, he’s prime, implausible, working superb, completely sure, he is able to begin.
“Marc is a typical quantity 9, bodily robust, a field participant. He can enhance and do many issues higher and we’re working with him day-after-day attempting to assist him and as I mentioned already many occasions, he’s going to play video games with us.”
Guiu has beforehand spoken concerning the problem in becoming a member of Sunderland solely to immediately return to London.
“It was all a bit chaotic, however in the long run, I am an individual who faces every part with the utmost positivity, and that is how I confronted it, now having fun with each second, as a result of a footballer’s profession is brief,” he informed Spanish outlet RTVE earlier this month.
Hypothesis persists that Guiu may return to the Stadium of Gentle in January, though Sunderland supervisor Regis Le Bris appeared to minimize that prospect on Friday when telling reporters: “On the minute now we have good strikers and we do not want something.”
Requested about the potential for Guiu leaving in January, Maresca mentioned: “We’re in October. I do not know, additionally as a result of in soccer issues can change very fast for everybody — for gamers, for managers, for everybody –so it is vitally troublesome to say.”
Saturday’s sport will come too quickly for Delap however he returned to full coaching this week and Maresca recommended there’s a chance the £30million summer time signing from Ipswich City may function in subsequent Wednesday’s EFL Cup tie at Wolves.
