Olivier Giroud is determined to leave Chelsea in January, it reports Telefoot. The 34-year-old striker has been told by national coach Didier Deschamps of France that he must look for more playing time in order to improve his chances of a starting place. les Bleus to enlarge at the upcoming European Championship. Giroud is ‘just’ in the base on Tuesday-evening in the Nations League match of France against Sweden.

Deschamps said in disguised words on Monday that Giroud should play more. “I never give advice, I only give an opinion”, said the French elected lord. “Ultimately it is the player’s decision. He knows what I think about it, although I don’t forget what he has done and could still mean. But the situation he is in at the moment cannot last forever. His situation will have to last for March. change.”

Giroud will start his 105th international match for France on Tuesday at 8.45 p.m. and is therefore still a valued force for Deschamps. At his club Chelsea, things are different: Giroud has to tolerate Timo Werner and Tammy Abraham in the pecking order and only came to 46 playing minutes in three short raids in the Premier League this season.

Giroud’s contract with Chelsea expires at the end of the season, but the Frenchman does not seem to want to serve that out. According to Telefoot Olympique Marseille and Girondins Bordeaux are interested in taking over the experienced center striker in the winter transfer period. Giroud would hope for a club of greater stature. In September, the attacker was explicitly linked to Juventus by transfer market expert Gianluca Di Marzio, but those rumors were denied by Giroud himself.