{"id":749589,"date":"2026-08-25T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749589\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:28:10","slug":"liam-delap-nottingham-forest-agree-50m-deal-for-chelsea-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749589\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Delap: Nottingham Forest agree \u00a350m deal for Chelsea striker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nottingham Forest<\/a> have agreed a club-record fee worth around \u00a350m to sign Chelsea<\/a> striker Liam Delap.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old is expected to undergo a medical and sign a long-term contract at the City Ground this week.<\/p>\n

Delap’s move comes a year after he joined Chelsea<\/a> from Ipswich Town<\/a> for \u00a330m amid competition from Manchester United<\/a> and Everton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, Chelsea<\/a> made him available for sale this summer after he scored just one Premier League goal in a previous campaign disrupted by shoulder and hamstring injuries.<\/p>\n

Forest have already signed defender Ousmane Diomande from Sporting for \u00a334m, alongside free agents, Austrian midfielder Xaver Schlager and goalkeeper Steve Benda.<\/p>\n

They sold England midfielder Elliot Anderson to Manchester City<\/a> for a club-record \u00a3116m and striker Taiwo Awoniyi to Coventry City<\/a> for \u00a39m.<\/p>\n

Delap’s arrival would provide competition for strikers Chris Wood and Igor Jesus, who failed to find the target in Forest’s 1-0 defeat by Leeds<\/a> in their home Premier League opener on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a> have also signed two strikers this summer in Emmanuel Emegha from Strasbourg and Danny Welbeck from Brighton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Delap came up through Derby County’s youth system before joining Manchester City<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n

After helping City win the FA Youth Cup in the 2019-20 campaign, he scored 24 goals in 20 Premier League 2 matches in 2020-21 as they won the title.<\/p>\n

In September 2020 the striker scored on his senior City debut in a 2-1 League Cup win against Bournemouth<\/a>, and three days later made his Premier League debut in a 5-2 defeat by Leicester.<\/p>\n

Injuries played a part in limiting further first-team opportunities, and between 2022 and 2024 Delap spent time on loan in the Championship with Stoke, Preston North End and Hull City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2024 he was sold for \u00a320m by City to Ipswich and scored 12 goals in 37 Premier League games for the newly promoted side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest have agreed a club-record fee worth around \u00a350m to sign Chelsea striker Liam Delap. The 23-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-749589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}