My issue with this ‘make do with what we have’ is that the bar has been raised in recent seasons, a couple of defeats in that period and we may not be catching Liverpool! Drop a number of points behind and then every game becomes a must win game, providing Liverpool keep up their annoying habit of winning games.
I love seeing an academy player get chance on merit but not being thrown in before he’s ready. Look how long it took Foden to truly break in, as much I hope Delap will be the same, should he be picked as the main up front for a month to six weeks minimum, before Sergio or Jesus are back fully firing?
I appreciate there is more than one way to ideally develop a potential first-teamer but with Delap being so inexperienced wouldn’t it be best we give him the Carabao games and use him from the bench in games against lesser teams or in certain games? Why rush him just because we’re forced down this road through injury?
The more I think about it, the more we either go with Sterling playing the false 9 (providing it is literally a month) or we need a top striker in to cover this potentially important period. Easier said than done I appreciate.