Chris Dunlavy

LOAN MOVE: Liam Delap

Liam Delap’s name has bounced around football for years, just as everybody knew about Wayne Rooney several years before he announced himself with that goal against Arsenal. 
Certain teenagers – Michael Owen was another – are just so far ahead of their peers that greatness seems inevitable.
Delap’s own legend was founded on a record of 48 goals in 32 matches for Manchester City’s Under-23 team, and by the age of 17 he was on the shortlist of practically every Championship club in the country.
But a combination of Pep Guardiola’s traditional reticence t...