Beto got 9/10 this season
Ndiaye got 10
This lad got 13 for a relegated side, I’ll take that for £30m thanks very much.
I honestly just come back to this. At that fee the conversation that he is England's future No 9 is irrelevant. Were talking a transfer comparable to what Nketiah went to Palace on, Patson Daka to Leicester, Danny Ings to Villa, Scamacca to West Ham.
Say he stagnates he will be flippable at almost the same price or at a marginal loss (Moise Kean anyone?). And of course there is the possibility he continues to develop and vastly outperform that initial investment.
If he is actually all that or not is pointless as the debate itself suggests he is. Globally we are in a lackluster era for strikers, clubs constantly talking themselves in or out of them based on perception more than the material output they produce week in week out. Usually that comes with a fervor that's reflected in the evaluation, but with Delap its not. The buzz is similar to Hojlund at Atalanta, the difference is 40 million.
Its why I like how aggressive we are being on it. I think he has real logic to consider us, I think he could end up very good maybe even great but more important to that is that I expect the market will think that for the next 3 years regardless of what he does. And considering the fee he will be got on, the risks is near nonexistent unless his wages are just absurd.
