**Chelsea have agreed to sell striker Liam Delap to Nottingham Forest for a fee in the region of £50m – a club-record signing for Forest.**
The 23-year-old is expected to undergo a medical and sign a contract at the City Ground this week.
The sale comes a year after Chelsea signed Delap from Ipswich Town for £30m, having beaten competition from Manchester United and Everton for his signature.Chelsea made him available for transfer this summer after he scored just one Premier League goal in a season disrupted by shoulder and hamstring injuries.
The club have signed two strikers already this summer, Emmanuel Emegha from Strasbourg and Danny Welbeck from Brighton, as they have looked to strengthen their attacking options following Delap’s difficult debut campaign.
Delap came through Derby County’s youth system before joining Manchester City in 2019. He won the FA Youth Cup with City in 2019-20 and scored 24 goals in 20 Premier League 2 matches the following season as City won the title.
He scored on his senior City debut in a League Cup win over Bournemouth in September 2020, and made his Premier League debut three days later.
Injuries limited his first-team opportunities at City, and between 2022 and 2024 he had loan spells in the Championship with Stoke, Preston North End and Hull City.
City sold Delap to Ipswich for £20m in the summer of 2024. He scored 12 goals in 37 Premier League games for the newly promoted side before his move to Chelsea a year later.
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