Liam Delap

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

Liam Delap is a forward for Chelsea, age 23, £5.5m. The Premier ranks him 320th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#305, 22.8 points) with the consensus of 5 other boards (147.0). The industry still has him 158 spots ahead of the 2025/26 Sleeper count. The Premier pays that reputation something, not everything. Brand does not outrun a down year, and a down year does not erase a player Chelsea still builds around.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 12 starts and 1092 minutes, 1 goals and 2 assists, 5 tackles and 12 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 45 points (1.6 per match) with 1 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 22.8. Forwards get 9 a goal and 0 for a clean sheet, so this ranking is almost entirely the 1 finishes and 2 assists - not the defensive crumbs.

Underlying: 4.54 xG, 0.23 xA, 4.76 xGI. He finished -3.5 above expected goals and 1.8 above expected assists. Set pieces: penalty order #4 for Chelsea. Role at Chelsea is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 12 starts is a starter. Anything under 25 starts is a rotation warning we already priced. Minutes are the skill that survives a finishing regression. The friendliest board is FPL xGI at 105; the coldest is Sleeper BPL 2025 at 305.

Market: £5.5m, 6 boards on the file. Price is the FPL tax, not the rank. The Premier is who produced and who the boards still believe. FPL's own EP-next is 1.8. ICT 47.3.

Instruction: he is on the 400, which is already a statement, and he is not a star. Stash in Sleeper if the minutes are real. Do not let a Pitch screenshot make you start him over a Premier top-80. Nearby on The Premier: Leon Bailey, Trevoh Chalobah, Matt O'Riley. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #305), the hybrid moves him down to #320. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 23, which on this board is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age forwards get ranked on what they just did and whether Chelsea still gives them the ball. 1092 minutes says yes. The 2026/27 FPL price (£5.5m) is the app's guess at whether that continues. The Premier is the blend of that guess and the box score.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #305 there). The Premier is the 50/50 with every other board we track. Attack, Midfield, Defence, and Keepers re-rank the same Sleeper table by position. BK Value on this page follows The Premier when you are on the hybrid calculator and The Pitch when you are on the Sleeper calculator. Same curve either way - 12,000 at 1.01.