GUIU LEFT BARÇA UNEXPECTEDLY
Marc Guiu clarifies if he abandoned FC Barcelona for Chelsea due to an economic issue
Published:5/08/2024 - 01:54h
Updated:5/08/2024 - 01:54h
Marc Guiu has explained in an interview why he decided to leave FC Barcelona to sign for Chelsea this summer. The youth player did not want to renew and took advantage of his termination clause of only 6 million to go to London
This summer, Chelsea paid the clause of rescission of 6 million euros to remain with Marc Guiu. The footballer and his agents were convinced that his course to the English team was the best decision that could take. The londinenses confirmed that the player of 18 years signed an agreement by five seasons and with the possibility to expand it a year more. In his statements after confirming the signing, the attacker even affirmed that it was ilusionado by his arrival to the Premier League.
"It is an immense joy fichar by Chelsea. It cost me sleep during all the trip because it was very thrilled", sustained the youngster. It fits to remember that the course of the footballer advanced after the first informations that arose to finals of the month of June. In that then, already sounded the version that the English institution had the 6 millions to pay the clause, a figure that the culés could not equalise. Now, the canterano of the Barcelona group sinceró on the reason of his course of the City Condal.
The exit did not go by money
During an interview conceded to the 'Daily Mail', Marc Guiu recognised that it was not easy to leave of the club chair by Joan Laporta: "it Was a hard decision leave the Barcaa, but always wanted to play in the Premier", commented the one of Granollers. Act followed, the forward cleared that the economic subject was not the reason of his decision: "I did not go me by a subject of my agreement, play in the Premier was a dream and Chelsea is a big club with a lot of history", finalised the interviewed.
The player contested seven parties with the first team of the FC Barcelona during the past course. The youngster always was in the radar of Xavi Hernández and therefore it attained to annotate so many against the Athletic of Bilbao in League and the Royal Amberes in the frame of the Champions. Therefore, the exit of the attacker was a hard loss for a club that needs a lot of his new talents in a moment complicated to economic level.
