Liam Delap is talking about marriage trips. Not because he is getting married, but because he believes that he and Ipswich teammate Cieran Slicker have the “happiest household in the UK.”
'Do you know when couples are in their honeymoon? That's me and him every day. We are much healthier than people think, “Delap tells the YouTube channel of Ipswich Town.
Delap and Slicker, both 22, are products from the Academy of Manchester City, but are in Suffolk. During the day they fight relegation. At night they share a house where they play sticky wave, swallowing lush meals, and Delap protests while his roommate sets clips of his best goals for the umpteenth time.
They grew their own food and have decorated the place with items they had to buy after losing card games. “The dynamics is that I cook, it cleans,” says Slicker. Delap objects strong, but only to point out that it does not actually clean at all.
Life may not be that long. Delap is the top striker of Manchester United for the summer after he set 12 goals in his Breakout Premier League season. He is also on the Radar of Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, Newcastle and his former rulers in Manchester City.
Soon he will have to choose between his happy house and his career. Delap has a release clause of £ 40 million in his contract in the event that Ipswich is relegated. They will be, except a miracle.
Delap does not share too much of his life on social media. His Instagram is football, football, football. Goals, goals, goals. The longest caption he has written in the last six months is one word. 'Team.'
What is certain is that his profile will flower. He currently has 232,000 Instagram followers. More than your family put together, probably, but no united songs.
Rasmus Hojlund is already 2.5 m, Joshua Zirkzee 1.4 m, but they have only scored half of the Premier League goals that Delap has – combined this season. A move to Old Trafford, with Thomas Tuchel's England in his visor, and his personal celebrity starts to bloom. Status of the well -known name is possible.
In many ways this was a natural path for Delap. He is the son of former Stoke -midfielder Rory, who may remember because of his ability to throw a ball to Mars and back.
His younger brother, Finn, plays for League One -Outfit Burton Albion. His sister, Neve, is also a sharp athlete and netball player. Mom, Helen? A marathon runner who has completed the Three Peaks. Sport is in the blood of Delap.
He is all pace and power, a former sprinter and school rugby star released on unfortunate defenses. The tactic in rugby was almost alone: give it to Liam. Let him run.
It is also not a bad idea in football. Where Ipswich has sunk this season, he has shouted. Twelve goals are a very respectable appetite – not worldwide, let's not put unnecessary pressure on the boy – but it is certainly one of the promise, and it is the way he plays scouts at the top clubs that lick their lips.
Pep Guardiola saw it in 2022. “He is a murderer,” said Manchester City's boss after a match to Fulham.
Of course Manchester City did not walk out of his teenage striker like a gangster. He was talking about football. “A typical British striker, an incredible Finisher,” Guardiola added.
“He has a special quality. He is another type of striker. '
The existence of Erling Haaland Limited Delap up to only six performances for City, but what the words of the precise Guardiola now look like. He doesn't so much on the door of the elite, but he through his way.
Jack Gaughan from Mail Sport dived a deep dive into the life of Delap and heard from a man who enjoys a good gag. The striker once squeezed the car keys of a city kitman to take his mini -mailer for a whizz around the training ground.
One city kitman realized that when his Mini Cooper was raced around the training field, later discovered that Delap had cut the keys and had taken it for a quick twist.
Once, in year 8, he begged to come for a toilet break with his team. What happened in that short break must have been magical because he returned to score a hat trick in the last 10 minutes.
The potential was always there and soon he will get the chance to prove it in the largest phases of all. The fact that United Delap has made their top goal speaks volumes about how high they think of him.
The other names on that list are Victor Osimhen (who is already productive for seven seasons), Viktor Gyokeres (Europe's favorite wanted man), Hugo Ekitike and Benjamin Sesko (both very good).
In an interview with Mail Sport many moons ago, his father Rory revealed the burden of all the attention he himself received.
That was the fixation with his long throws (arising from his spear practice), wrote a PR specialist and asked if he would throw a Christmas pudding over a double-deck bus.
Delap can know the feeling soon.
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