Bored and gutted: Liam Delap’s Dad speaks out on Chelsea striker’s long-term injury | OneFootball

The father of Liam Delap, Rory, has spoken out on his son’s long-term injury lay off after getting injured on transfer deadline weekend.

Everyone around Chelsea will clearly be absolutely gutted at Delap getting injured. It caused a last minute panic from Chelsea to try and either sign in a new striker, recall one they already own, or stop Nicolas Jackson’s move to Bayern Munich.

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In the end of course, they decided to recall Marc Guiu from his loan move to Sunderland but oddly enough, Guiu was not even included in Chelsea’s squad to face Brentford at the weekend.

Delap will be a big miss for Chelsea because he is the only ‘proper 9’ that they have in the squad, as per Enzo Maresca himself who was speaking about that yesterday.

Maresca has even admitted that he started Joao Pedro against Brentford on Saturday even after the striker had told him that he was not feeling fully fit before the game. Maresca must have believed that he had little choice but to start him.

So Chelsea now lack strikers, and Delap is out for the long-term, believed to be around 10-12 weeks.

Rory speaks out

Estevao Willian and Liam Delap celebrate. (Photo by Richard Pelham/Getty Images) generic

Speaking to talkSPORT’s Shebahn Aherne on Weekend Breakfast, Liam’s father and Premier League cult hero Rory Delap lifted the lid on how the Chelsea forward has filled his time.

“I think he’s gutted obviously with the injury, especially at the start of his career there,” Delap said.

“But it’s part and parcel of the game. He’s got a strong head on him and he’s focused on the recovery now.

“The toughest thing for us is trying to keep him amused because he gets bored very easily.

“He’s learning magic tricks and doing maths things I can’t get my head around.

“Just trying to keep his day full once he’s not at the club and finished his rehab.”