Speaking to RAC1 (via Sport<\/a>), Guiu had reiterated his belief that he made the right decision to swap Barcelona for Chelsea last summer, despite making only 16 appearances in the first team last season. He also spoke about whether he had contact with Hansi Flick prior to choosing to leave.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t regret leaving Bar\u00e7a. I left because I thought it was the best thing for my career and what I have to do now is enjoy the Premier League. It was a difficult decision, Bar\u00e7a gave me everything, it was my home. There were a lot of strikers and they didn\u2019t guarantee me to be in the first team, so I think I chose the best option. Maresca called me and told me that they trusted me and the sporting project was incredible.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t get to talk to Flick, he sent me a message when we were playing in the play-offs. I don\u2019t know what would have happened if Xavi had stayed, but since it didn\u2019t happen, I don\u2019t want to think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Guiu was on loan at Sunderland in the early stages of the season before Chelsea opted to recall him after an injury to Liam Delap, which means that he could face Barcelona in the Champions League. He believes that his current club are firm favourites for the league phase match, which he is very much looking forward to.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will be a special match, the match of my life. Hopefully I can get minutes. I\u2019ve already told Cubarsi that I\u2019ll blow it up, although I wouldn\u2019t celebrate a goal.<\/p>\n \u201cChelsea are the best team in the world at the moment. They have a squad, player by player, incredible. Maresca is very good and when we go out on the pitch we know what to do. The opponent has nothing to do. The key to Chelsea is the unity and the work of the coach. He works very well tactically, the training sessions are intense. I\u2019m sure he has influence from Guardiola, the training sessions are very similar to those of Bar\u00e7a, with a lot of ball and a lot of positional play.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post “I don’t regret it” – Premier League star reflects on Barcelona exit<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next summer, Chelsea will be in the market for a new starting striker, but they could have had one already had Marc Guiu…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Marc](\"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Marc-Guiu.jpeg\")
Guiu believes Chelsea are favourites for Barcelona clash<\/h2>\n