Everton have been tipped to make a summer transfer raid for Chelsea striker Liam Delap<\/h2>\n
Everton are \u201cnailed on\u201d as the obvious transfer destination for Chelsea\u2019s Liam Delap this summer.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the verdict of Pat Nevin, who made the same move himself, swapping Stamford Bridge for Goodison Park in a \u00a3925,000 move and going on to make 150 appearances for the Blues between 1988-92, scoring 21 goals.<\/p>\n
Delap netted a dozen Premier League goals for Ipswich Town last season but after they went straight back down to the Championship, his \u00a330million relegation release clause enabled him to talk to interested parties.<\/p>\n
Everton were one of those chasing his signature at the time, hoping the prospect of being the leading star going into a new era at Hill Dickinson Stadium could add weight to their bid.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Seven players could play their final game for Everton at Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday<\/span><\/span>READ MORE: Everton manager David Moyes lands new job and will team up with former Liverpool star<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Blues boss David Moyes took what was an unusual step for him of publicly declaring his interest and following their talks he said: \u201cWe\u2019ve had a chance to speak to him, yes.<\/p>\n \u201cHe spoke to three or four clubs. He\u2019s given us our opportunity to pitch our case. We\u2019re probably a little bit behind the black ball but hopefully, you never know what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n Ultimately, Delap chose to go to Chelsea who could offer Champions League football while also providing him with the chance to play under Enzo Maresca, who had previously been his coach at Manchester City.<\/p>\n However, the Italian departed on New Year\u2019s Day and the west London club \u2013 who have subsequently hired and fired Liam Rosenior, dispensing of his services less than four months into a six-and-a-half-year contract \u2013 can no longer finish in the top five.<\/p>\n Chelsea go into their final game of the season at Sunderland in eighth spot, which would secure them a place in the Europa Conference League which they won last season but could climb to seventh and upgrade to the Europa League which was lifted by Aston Villa on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n Despite being part of the squad that lifted the FIFA Club World Cup in the USA last July \u2013 alongside Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall who moved to the Blues for \u00a325million the following month \u2013 Delap has netted just once in 27 Premier League matches this term and has struck twice in 40 games in all competitions.<\/p>\n Nevin told Grosvenor Casinos: \u201cI don\u2019t see him going back to Ipswich (who have come straight back up). Everton would be the obvious place, absolutely nailed on.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not saying it\u2019s a done deal, but I think Everton want him and I think it would be brilliant for everyone. And it\u2019s a safer bet for him.<\/p>\n \u201cLiam Delap is nailed on for Everton, there\u2019s technical reasons why. When people talk about the number of goals scored, it\u2019s actually not exactly about that for Everton.<\/p>\n \u201cYou need a certain type of player to hold up the ball, to run the channels, to stretch the game so that three quality players behind you and they have got brilliant players behind them, get a chance to shine.<\/p>\n \u201cDelap would be perfect. I don\u2019t know if they\u2019ll get him but Chelsea\u2019s not the right place for him.\u201d<\/p>\n FOLLOW OUR EVERTON FC FACEBOOK PAGE!<\/strong> Latest EFC news and analysis from via the Liverpool Echo\u2019s dedicated FB page<\/u><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everton have been tipped to make a summer transfer raid for Chelsea striker Liam Delap…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}