{"id":870298,"date":"2026-08-27T13:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870298\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:38:26","slug":"i-cant-wait-liam-delap-seals-45m-nottingham-forest-move-from-chelsea-nottingham-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870298\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can\u2019t wait\u2019: Liam Delap seals \u00a345m Nottingham Forest move from Chelsea | Nottingham Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Nottingham Forest have completed the signing of the Chelsea striker Liam Delap in a club-record \u00a345m deal. The 23-year-old has a five-year contract at Forest, his third club in three seasons after he was told he was not part of Xabi Alonso\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Forest\u2019s new manager, Oliver Glasner, made him a priority during the transfer window and Delap said: \u201cI really can\u2019t wait to get started. This is a massive club with a big history. I spoke to the manager and I like his way, I think he can be the one to really help me develop and make that next step and hopefully I can bring goals here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The former England youth international had been made to train separately at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/chelsea\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> and had the No 9 shirt reassigned to Jo\u00e3o Pedro. Chelsea have made a profit on a player they signed for \u00a330m from Ipswich a year ago, despite Delap scoring two goals in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Quick GuidePlay our football trivia game, On the ballShow<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2025\/sep\/29\/upgrade-your-downtime-with-guardian-puzzles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">daily football game<\/a>, On the ball, is now live in the app for both iOS and Android.\u00a0Can you identify the Premier League star from the clues?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your feedback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He has been signed in time to make his debut against Liverpool on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest have completed the signing of the Chelsea striker Liam Delap in a club-record \u00a345m deal. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-870298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}