Nottingham Forest have agreed a club-record charge value round £50m to signal Chelsea striker Liam Delap.
The 23-year-old is anticipated to bear a medical and signal a long-term contract on the Metropolis Floor this week.
Delap’s transfer comes a 12 months after he joined Chelsea from Ipswich City for £30m amid competitors from Manchester United and Everton.
Nevertheless, Chelsea made him accessible on the market this summer season after he scored only one Premier League purpose in a earlier marketing campaign disrupted by shoulder and hamstring accidents.
Forest have already signed defender Ousmane Diomande from Sporting for £34m, alongside free brokers, Austrian midfielder Xaver Schlager and goalkeeper Steve Benda.
They bought England midfielder Elliot Anderson to Manchester Metropolis for a club-record £116m and striker Taiwo Awoniyi to Coventry Metropolis for £9m.
Delap’s arrival would supply competitors for strikers Chris Wooden and Igor Jesus, who failed to seek out the goal in Forest’s 1-0 defeat by Leeds of their house Premier League opener on Saturday.
Chelsea have additionally signed two strikers this summer season in Emmanuel Emegha from Strasbourg and Danny Welbeck from Brighton.
Delap got here up via Derby County’s youth system earlier than becoming a member of Manchester Metropolis in 2019.
After serving to Metropolis win the FA Youth Cup within the 2019-20 marketing campaign, he scored 24 objectives in 20 Premier League 2 matches in 2020-21 as they received the title.
In September 2020 the striker scored on his senior Metropolis debut in a 2-1 League Cup win towards Bournemouth, and three days later made his Premier League debut in a 5-2 defeat by Leicester.
Accidents performed an element in limiting additional first-team alternatives, and between 2022 and 2024 Delap frolicked on mortgage within the Championship with Stoke, Preston North Finish and Hull Metropolis.
In the summertime of 2024 he was bought for £20m by Metropolis to Ipswich and scored 12 objectives in 37 Premier League video games for the newly promoted aspect.