🚨🔵 BREAKING: Liam Delap to Chelsea, here we go! Agreement in place as £30m release clause will be triggered.
Manchester City will not use buy back clause and Delap has already accepted Chelsea project.
Long term deal, Maresca’s impact + UCL football key. Delap will join #CFC.
🚨🔵 Chelsea have booked medical for Liam Delap after agreement sealed on personal terms and £30m release clause activated.
Delap has also spoken to Enzo Maresca, a crucial factor to make the deal happen.
🚨🔵 Liam Delap completes first part of his medical at Chelsea and formal steps will follow early next week.
All set to get the deal official. Delap will play for Chelsea.
Grateful for the experience. Big love to everyone at Chelsea who made me feel at home — teammates, staff and the fans.
Wishing the club all the best moving forward. Truly grateful, Thank you Blues 💙🙏🏼
🚨🔵 Chelsea and AC Milan are not close on valuation for Mike Maignan.
AC Milan want around €30m; Chelsea won’t pay that as #CFC value Maignan at €10m being out of contract in 2026.
Chelsea won’t wait longer than Monday as they’re also happy with 4 goalkeepers in their squad.
🚨🔵 OFFICIAL: Liam Delap joins Chelsea on £30m deal from Ipswich Town.
Contract until June 2031 as Delap wanted and picked Chelsea over +6 proposals this summer.
💙🏆 Liam Delap: “I 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐬”.
“When I spoke to the club, everyone wanted to get back to the very top with desire to keep adding trophies, take the club back to where it belongs, that’s main objective”.
We are extremely grateful to Ange for his commitment and contribution during his two years at the Club.
Ange will always be remembered as only the third manager in our history to deliver a European trophy.
Thank you Ange 🤍