West Ham have been tipped to sign the Chelsea defender (Pictures: Getty)

West Ham have been tipped to rescue Ben Chilwell from Chelsea following his difficult period at Stamford Bridge.

Chilwell has only featured once for Chelsea this season after being advised to leave the club over the summer by new manager Enzo Maresca.

Maresca said Chilwell and Raheem Sterling should find new clubs if they hoped to feature regularly this season and banished them both from first-team training.

Sterling left to join Arsenal on a season-long loan deal but his fellow England international Chilwell stayed put.

It was thought that Chilwell’s return to first-team action in the League Cup against Barrow would represent the start of a comeback of sorts for a player who cost the club £50m in 2020.
But Chilwell has not been offered any minutes in Chelsea’s subsequent five games and was not even on the bench for the 2-1 defeat to Liverpool last weekend.

Given Maresca’s stance, Chilwell was linked with other Premier League clubs last summer – including Manchester United – and will surely look to leave west London when the transfer market reopens in January.

Ben Chilwell has barely played under Blues boss Enzo Maresca (Picture: Getty)

Ex-England goalkeeper Paul Robinson ‘suspects’ Chilwell is desperate to move to get his career back on track and ‘can see’ a move to West Ham materialising.

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