Harry Kane

20 appearances for a 19 year old hot prospect in a 60+ game season isn’t unrealistic. Foden got 38 appearances in 2019/20 when he was 19. Granted he was around the first team for much longer, hence thinking Delap can aim for 20 with starts in cup games etc.
Not really that laughable is it.

It's laughable that you've (presumably) followed this side for 5 seasons under Pep and you think Liam Delap is going to play 20 games - 1/3 of our games.

If he played 5 he'd be doing well. If he got near 10? Incredible. More than that? We've been fucked by an injury crisis like we've never seen before. Even before we spend £100m on a striker, I'm pretty confident that Torres, Jesus and multiple false 9s are all well ahead of him in the pecking order.

He's been promoted to the first team squad, that's great. Tommy Doyle got that same treatment in the press 2 years ago and has played 7 games in 2 years.

Foden was "in the first team squad" for 2 years before he played more than 10 in a season.

If Delap was about to play 20 games for us, he'd have been on the bench a lot. In reality, he didn't make the bench after the January covid crisis. He wasn't even on the bench for the 4th round of the FA Cup.

And that was an extended bench with 5 subs that won't be there next year.

Also he's 18, not 19, which you probably know also throws all your poor Foden comparisons out by a year.


Pep isn't giving a kid 20 games in his first season promoted to the first team. Sorry if that's news to you.
 

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