{"id":1414,"date":"2026-06-04T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:46:07","slug":"liam-delap-wants-at-least-another-season-at-chelsea-to-prove-worth-to-xabi-alonso-despite-bleak-easier-to-move-on-transfer-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1414","title":{"rendered":"Liam Delap wants &#8216;at least another season&#8217; at Chelsea to prove worth to Xabi Alonso despite bleak &#8216;easier to move on&#8217; transfer status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"B\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>The numbers from Delap&#8217;s first year at Chelsea make for grim reading relative to his \u00a330 million transfer fee. He managed just one Premier League goal last season and two in 41 appearances across all competitions, finishing the campaign without scoring in his final 26 matches. His struggles were compounded by a\u00a0dislocated shoulder in a match against Bournemouth, which severely limited his physical impact on the pitch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Those close to the player acknowledge that expectations have not been met so far, though they also point to a challenging adaptation period. Competition for places has intensified following the arrival of Joao Pedro, who has quickly established himself as one of Chelsea&#8217;s key attacking players after his \u00a355m move from Brighton. Pedro\u2019s form has pushed Delap further down the pecking order, leaving his role in the squad uncertain.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers from Delap&#8217;s first year at Chelsea make for grim reading relative to his \u00a330 million transfer fee. He&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}