Benarbia’s Backheel
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I didn’t say I think he would, I said that if the club (management) think he’s good enough then he will, just like Foden did, if he’s not as good as Foden ( like Doyle clearly isn’t) then he wontIt'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.
Not sure why you’ve got your knickers in such a twist, all I said was that Kane would be a good signing and that a youngster could learn from him. Not that far out of the realms of possibility really is it.
Send me a PM if you have something to get off your chest, you clearly have.