Ben Chilwell HAS been included in Chelsea’s Premier League squad as the £50million, £200,000-a-week outsider is given an extension after the club’s desperate attempts to prise him out failed

Ben Chilwell is still training separately with Chelsea’s first-team squad, but the England international has been given hope of a return after Enzo Maresca approved his inclusion in the squad the club submitted to the Premier League on Friday.

Maresca plans to hold a meeting with the 27-year-old to discuss a solution so he doesn’t have to spend the next four months in the football desert.

One of the options is to let him play with the first team again until January, after which they can start looking for a potential buyer again.

Maresca had previously indicated that those training sessions would not be given separately under him, as Chilwell was left out of the Conference League squad that Chelsea submitted to UEFA last week.

This means he will be unavailable for the club’s next six European matches.

Ben Chilwell has been named in Chelsea’s 25-man squad for the Premier League campaign

The defender was banned by new Blues manager Enzo Maresca, and trained away from the first team

He had hoped to at least be included in the Conference League squad, but missed out

But in a summer in which Chelsea managed to sign Raheem Sterling and Trevoh Chalobah, their failure to secure Chilwell a new club has complicated his situation. He trained alone at Cobham on Friday, but by naming him in their Premier League squad, Chilwell could play if they hit an injury crisis.

Asked at his press conference on Friday about Chilwell ahead of their trip to Bournemouth on Saturday, Maresca said: ‘Ben is probably the only one left now. We will sit down with him and find a solution because he is the only one.

“The reason why he is training separately is because he was supposed to leave, but since he couldn’t find a solution, he will probably train with us. If we decide to do that, he will become one of the players.”