{"id":109429,"date":"2025-08-31T08:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109429\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T08:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:09:23","slug":"liam-delap-called-one-of-the-best-signings-of-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109429\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Delap called &#8220;one of the best signings of the summer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are taking on Fulham on TNT Sport in the early kick off today, and the broadcaster sent Joe Cole to the Blues\u2019 dressing room before kick off to look at some of the names <a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2025\/08\/estevao-second-premier-league-start\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ready to start the game.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cole hails \u201cNeymar vibes\u201d of Estevao<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2330\" height=\"1599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Getty-Images-6.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-139107 has-webp\" alt=\"Estevao Willian in action for Chelsea against West Ham.\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:2330\/1599;max-width:2048px\"\/>Estevao Willian in action for Chelsea against West Ham. (Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>He was immediately drawn to Estevao Willian, and had some high praise for him:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gives me Neymar vibes \u2013 that type of energy. Brilliant, brilliant footballer. When you come to watch football you want to watch players who excite you, and he will excite these Chelsea fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Estevao has a phenomenal amount of hype around him, partly because he\u2019s so highly rated in general, and partly because it\u2019s been such a long wait for him to make his debut after signing.<\/p>\n<p>You can see Cole speaking about the Blues\u2019 new star in the clip embedded here:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe could be one of the best signings this season\u201d \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>Joe Cole is backing Est\u00eav\u00e3o, Liam Delap &amp; Joao Pedro to shine this year \u2728<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KennyAllstar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@KennyAllstar<\/a> | \ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tntsports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@tntsports<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/discoveryplusUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@discoveryplusUK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wDH0YaFxCG\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wDH0YaFxCG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/footballontnt\/status\/1961735780616863919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Delap could be signing of the season adds former Blues winger<\/p>\n<p>Cole also wanted to <a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2025\/06\/chelsea-fans-liam-delap-fast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">talk a little about Liam Delap<\/a>. Delap hasn\u2019t come with the same expectation as Estevao, but that may work to his advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he could be one of the best signings of this season. I love this kid. I love his aggression. He\u2019s winning everything \u2013 if he\u2019s playing you at anything, he\u2019s trying to win. He\u2019s hustle and bustle. I can see defenders who are playing against him shaking their heads because he\u2019s giving them no space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think by the end of this season people will look back at that signing for \u00a330m and say \u2018yeah, that was top\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delap and Estevao are both getting a lot of chances early in the season thanks to Cole Palmer\u2019s absence, and they will hope to take advantage of it.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea are taking on Fulham on TNT Sport in the early kick off today, and the broadcaster sent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-109429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}