Liam Delap - Ipswich player 2024-25

Otamendi's Beard said:
Great news. I've got a feeling Pep will like him.
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Yeah, probably the most exciting striker we’ve had in the academy since Kelechi. Quick, strong, tall, good dribling and a great finisher. Looks like a complete striker.

The amount of talent our academy is producing now is amazing. THB, Doyle, Bernabe, Nmecha, Palmer, Braaf, Delap etc. I’d not be surprised if a couple of them made it to the first team. The U18 team is amazing as well, probably the best we’ve had in years. Egan-Riley, Mbete-Tabu, Burns, Wilson-Esbrand, Hodge, McAtee, Robinson, Fiorini, Bobb and Edozie. Great players in all positions. Will be interesting to follow them
 
I have this weird feeling he will play tomorrow to give Jesus rest.

No way it happens of course.
 


not many videos of him but here is one of him scoring against Burnley in the youth cup

he looks a right unit for a kid of his age (18?)

quite a bit of braff in this as well
 
Delphinho said:
Yeah, probably the most exciting striker we’ve had in the academy since Kelechi. Quick, strong, tall, good dribling and a great finisher. Looks like a complete striker.

The amount of talent our academy is producing now is amazing. THB, Doyle, Bernabe, Nmecha, Palmer, Braaf, Delap etc. I’d not be surprised if a couple of them made it to the first team. The U18 team is amazing as well, probably the best we’ve had in years. Egan-Riley, Mbete-Tabu, Burns, Wilson-Esbrand, Hodge, McAtee, Robinson, Fiorini, Bobb and Edozie. Great players in all positions. Will be interesting to follow them
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I agree. We have so many talented young players. it would be pretty disappointing if at least two more of those didnt make the first team. there just too good to ignore now

I think it should be doyle next - integrate him into the squad like we did with foden.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
I agree. We have so many talented young players. it would be pretty disappointing if at least two more of those didnt make the first team. there just too good to ignore now

I think it should be doyle next - integrate him into the squad like we did with foden.
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They were too good to ignore when we had Angeliño, Maffeo, Brahim, Denayer and Sancho. We still managed it somehow.
 
kun said:
They were too good to ignore when we had Angeliño, Maffeo, Brahim, Denayer and Sancho. We still managed it somehow.
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Except we didn't and they turned out not good enough. But why let facts get in the way of a good whinge.

Edit: (for the terminally stupid) Sancho and Brahim both left of their own accord for well documented reasons that I couldn't be arsed repeating.
 
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Centurions said:
The fact that you included Sancho in your original list (or Brahim) shows how dumb you are bud, try researching before posting crap. It saves you looking stupid.
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I know what happened with Sancho and Díaz, why don't you try not being a patronising c*nt?

I'm not even gonna bother elaborating on my point as you would probably just post abuse. Bye.
 
kun said:
I know what happened with Sancho and Díaz, why don't you try not being a patronising c*nt?

I'm not even gonna bother elaborating on my point as you would probably just post abuse. Bye.
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Of course you won't elaborate because you've trotted out a tired old trope, it was a lazy post that you gave no thought to.
 
Centurions said:
Except we didn't and they turned out not good enough. But why let facts get in the way of a good whinge.

Edit: (for the terminally stupid) Sancho and Brahim both left of their own accord for well documented reasons that I couldn't be arsed repeating.
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No shit. One of the reasons Sancho left was because we didn't give him a pre-season with the first team when he was 17. We gave Brahim and Foden pre-seasons at the same age. Just because he left on his own accord that doesn't mean it wasn't our fault for not giving him any opportunities. Brahim also wasn't given any serious game time and was obviously tempted by the biggest club in Spain telling him he'd be an immediate first teamer and a star there (which it turns out was a bunch of hot air).

When the players mentioned were in the academy they were just as good if not better than the current lot of youngsters, so what makes you think the current crop are any more likely to "turn out good enough" than those lads??

Also, those players haven't got close to their peaks ages yet, so I don't know how you could even claim that they didn't turn out good enough.
 
kun said:
No shit. One of the reasons Sancho left was because we didn't give him a pre-season with the first team when he was 17. We gave Brahim and Foden pre-seasons at the same age. Just because he left on his own accord that doesn't mean it wasn't our fault for not giving him any opportunities. Brahim also wasn't given any serious game time and was obviously tempted by the biggest club in Spain telling him he'd be an immediate first teamer and a star there (which it turns out was a bunch of hot air).

When the players mentioned were in the academy they were just as good if not better than the current lot of youngsters, so what makes you think the current crop are any more likely to "turn out good enough" than those lads??

Also, those players haven't got close to their peaks ages yet, so I don't know how you could even claim that they didn't turn out good enough.
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Well you started off with incorrect information, as I said try researching first. Did you miss Angelino coming back and then leaving again? So is Brahim good enough or not?

When did I mention 'the current crop'?
 
kun said:
No shit. One of the reasons Sancho left was because we didn't give him a pre-season with the first team when he was 17. We gave Brahim and Foden pre-seasons at the same age. Just because he left on his own accord that doesn't mean it wasn't our fault for not giving him any opportunities. Brahim also wasn't given any serious game time and was obviously tempted by the biggest club in Spain telling him he'd be an immediate first teamer and a star there (which it turns out was a bunch of hot air).

When the players mentioned were in the academy they were just as good if not better than the current lot of youngsters, so what makes you think the current crop are any more likely to "turn out good enough" than those lads??

Also, those players haven't got close to their peaks ages yet, so I don't know how you could even claim that they didn't turn out good enough.
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This.

The almost disregard that we showed the academy in the final weeks of the season would have, unfortunately, spoke volumes.

Final game of the season, at home and against bottom of the table Norwich and we still had the following players on the bench:

Subs: Stones, Gundogan, Zinchenko, Bernardo Silva, Mendy, Fernandinho, Mahrez, Otamendi, Carson

Literally no need for two senior left backs and two senior central midfielders on the bench. two of these spots could have been offered to the youth players, with the hope that we could maybe blood one of them when we are 3, 4 or 5 up.

Can anyone honestly blame our brightest prospects for wanting to go elsewhere when we can't even be arsed to offer them a place on the bench in the mother of all dead rubbers?!

It is little wonder that so many of our 'loan army' players end up at no mark (in the scheme of things) clubs in Scotland or in a European second tier division as they don't get barely any minutes between them to prove themselves to any extent. Viscous circle, meaning that even if they do well on loan they have only done it at a level maybe at Championship (at best) meaning that they are in reality no closer to a place at a top club than before.

Hopefully if the 5 subs rule stays they will state that 2 of these will have to be under 21 which would force our hand, but probably more chance of pigs flying unfortunately.
 
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