Sevilla Targets Chelsea Striker Guiu for Attack Rebuild

Sevilla’s rebuild up front has one big piece missing, and they know exactly who they want to fill it. According to Mundo Deportivo, Chelsea striker Guiu has emerged as the priority target to close out the Andalusian club’s attacking business this summer.

The 20-year-old, a former Barcelona academy forward, is viewed inside the club as the ideal final addition to a frontline that has been stripped back and hurriedly reassembled over the past few months.

A new-look forward line still one short

Sevilla have already moved to plug some of the gaps, bringing in Scottish striker Robbie Ure to add energy and goals to Luis Garcia’s squad. Ure’s arrival, though, was only step one.

The coaching staff and sporting director Jose Ignacio Navarro are aligned: they want three natural strikers available for a long, punishing season. The plan is clear. If Guiu comes in, he will fight directly with Ure and Isaac Romero for a starting role, giving Garcia the rotation and competition he has been asking for.

That urgency has been forced on them by a brutal exodus at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan.

After Adams, Sanchez and Maupay exits, a void in attack

Sevilla sold their main attacking reference, Nigerian striker Akor Adams, to Venezia earlier in the window. That deal removed the focal point of last season’s attack.

Then the experience walked out of the door as well. Alexis Sanchez and Neal Maupay both departed during the current window, stripping Sevilla of know-how and depth in the final third. What remains is a forward unit light on options and even lighter on guarantees.

The club initially tried a different route. They targeted a loan for highly rated Nigerian forward George Ilenikhena, only to see that possibility vanish almost overnight. Two spectacular goals for Al Ittihad changed the picture, and with his value and importance rising there, Sevilla quickly turned back to a name that had never fully left their notebooks: Guiu.

Chelsea close the door, Sevilla see an opening

At Stamford Bridge, Guiu’s situation has hardened. Chelsea have chosen not to hand him a squad number for the current campaign, a blunt message about his place in their immediate plans. That decision has pushed his representatives into action, sounding out new destinations where he can actually play.

Sevilla’s interest is not a late, opportunistic move. Abc report that the Andalusian club are formally reviving a pursuit that began at the very start of the summer, when Guiu was first floated as a serious option to return to Spanish football.

The preferred route is clear: a loan deal. For Sevilla, it is the financial structure that makes most sense, allowing them to secure a player with upside without committing to a large permanent fee in a single hit.

A career at a crossroads

Guiu is now in his second season in English football after his high-profile switch from Catalonia. His Chelsea record stands at 29 appearances and eight goals, most of those coming during the club’s successful 2025 Conference League campaign, where he offered flashes of the penalty-box instinct that made him such a talked-about prospect.

A short loan at Sunderland in the Championship followed. Three appearances, one goal, and not enough time to truly settle. He returned to west London, but the message since has been consistent: he is not part of Chelsea’s immediate first-team picture.

Despite having three years left on his contract, a departure feels inevitable. The Premier League door is closing, at least for now.

Sevilla, though, can offer something different: a familiar league, a club that needs him, and the promise of real minutes in a season where they cannot afford to get their attacking rebuild wrong. For Guiu, this loan could be less a step back from England and more the launchpad his career now demands.