Ian Wright urges Man Utd to sign ‘hungry’ Chelsea transfer target

Ian Wright has urged Manchester United to marque a summertime swoop for Ipswich Town striker and Chelsea transportation people Liam Delap.

Delap has impressed successful his archetypal play successful the Premier League, scoring 9 goals successful 23 appearances since arriving astatine Portman Road from Manchester City successful the summer.

The 22-year-old’s exploits and carnal characteristics person led to involvement from respective apical clubs, with Chelsea said to beryllium 1 of the clubs monitoring the striker’s situation up of adjacent summer.

A instrumentality to City could besides beryllium connected the cards arsenic Pep Guardiola’s broadside are said to person inserted a buy-back clause successful the woody that saw Delap primitively determination to Ipswich.

United, meanwhile, inactive find themselves successful hopeless request of a reliable goalscorer, with Ruben Amorim adjacent resorting to deploying Kobbie Mainoo arsenic a mendacious 9 successful a disappointing 2-0 decision to Crystal Palace successful aboriginal February.

Both Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee person flattered to deceive since their respective moves to Old Trafford, with the brace registering conscionable 5 goals combined successful the league this season.

And having opted against signing different guardant successful January, Wright believes the nine should present spell each retired to effort and triumph the contention for Delap’s signature successful the summer.

‘Go and get Delap,’ the erstwhile Arsenal striker connected the astir caller occurrence of Wrighty’s House erstwhile addressing United’s striking woes.

‘The happening is he’s got that hunger and disrespect for everybody and it conscionable feels similar the benignant of subordinate they need.

‘They request a leader similar that and he’s a leader waiting to happen. He’s hungry.’

Wright, however, was keen to accent that United’s in-possession attack indispensable amended drastically earlier immoderate striker tin genuinely thrive successful Amorim’s set-up.

‘Obviously, Zirkzee came connected (against Leicester successful the FA Cup) and helium got 1 but I don’t deliberation they enactment the shot successful the container enough,’ Wright added.

‘I don’t deliberation there’s anyone successful the container for erstwhile the transverse comes in. I don’t deliberation they nexus the play oregon support the shot good capable successful the last 3rd to prolong unit connected a team.

‘They suffer the shot and past teams tin interruption connected them. There’s nary operation to whether they are going to effort to play done teams oregon astir them.

‘So the forwards don’t cognize what’s coming. They don’t get the benignant of work they beryllium on.

‘When’s the past clip you saw a Man United subordinate people a extremity wherever he’s got crossed a feline astatine a adjacent post? You don’t spot those goals from Man United.’

Speaking earlier successful the season, Delap said helium was paying nary attraction to speculation linking him with a determination distant from Ipswich.

‘I don’t truly look astatine things similar that. So, yes, I’m conscionable focused connected Ipswich,’ Delap told Suffolk News successful precocious December.

‘We are fortunate to beryllium playing successful the Premier League. I deliberation we’ve got a large accidental present astatine Ipswich and we’re conscionable trying to amusement our quality week in, week out, that’s a large positive for me.’

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