Sunderland have signed teenage Chelsea ahead Marc Guiu on mortgage for the 2025-26 season.
The Spaniard, now 19, moved to Stamford Bridge for £5m from Barcelona in July 2024 and scored six objectives in 16 matches for the Blues final season.
Describing himself as “a robust striker” and “pure goalscorer”, Guiu mentioned of his switch to Sunderland: “This 12 months is a big alternative for me to assist take this crew the place it really deserves to be, and I can not wait to get began.”
Sunderland earned promotion to the Premier League by beating Sheffield United within the Championship play-off closing in Might.
Guiu turns into the Black Cats’ ninth signing of the summer season.
He got here via Barcelona’s celebrated La Masia academy and scored simply 33 seconds after approaching to make his debut for the membership in a 1-0 win towards Athletic Bilbao in October 2023.
After transferring to England, he scored three objectives towards Shamrock Rovers within the Convention League final season to develop into Chelsea’s second youngest participant to web a hat-trick.
Sunderland sporting director Kristjaan Speakman mentioned: “In a mortgage acquisition, we not solely need to persuade the participant but in addition the mother or father membership, and we thank Chelsea for putting their belief in us.
“Most significantly, Marc wished to return to Sunderland and be part of our membership. The competitors for his signature was important and he had many high-quality choices.
“Marc’s a progressive striker who has key attributes that align with the function in our crew.”
