Marcus Rashford - signed on loan (injured - out for season?)

[Steve67]

They'd have to let him go for that price, but if more than one club was interested they could still get more, right?

No, they offer the same and the player has a choice of who he goes to.   

[PaulWinch again]

Don’t Citeh have a buy back? Presumably they could exercise that and sell him for a fair chunk more.

[AV84]

They'd have to let him go for that price, but if more than one club was interested they could still get more, right?

No, they offer the same and the player has a choice of who he goes to.

In reply to the previous 2 posts too..... I assumed a bidding war, but Steve's post implies they'd all just offer Ipswich the same money and then make offers to the player, wages, bonuses etc. and he'd decide then which one he took. So I was mistaken.

[Mellin]

If that’s the case we should be all over that

Agreed. He's the one. Go get him.

[AV84]

If Delap is available for that you'd have to assume most of the teams that would be interested in Watkins would be looking at Delap first.

[Dick Edwards]

If Delap is available for that you'd have to assume most of the teams that would be interested in Watkins would be looking at Delap first.

Hopefully he’ll want to reacquaint with Morgan Rogers again. I assume they’ll have played in the same age group teams at Manchester City

[Percy McCarthy]

And Delap will move for substantially more than £30m

Bidding war on his £30m release clause?

[Dave]

If Delap is available for that you'd have to assume most of the teams that would be interested in Watkins would be looking at Delap first.

Hopefully he’ll want to reacquaint with Morgan Rogers again. I assume they’ll have played in the same age group teams at Manchester City

Wherever he goes he'd be silly to make it somewhere that he's not going to play every week.  So if we don't sell Watkins, he's be daft to come in and rotate with him, Malen and maybe Rashford. If we do finish sixth or seventh, it's pretty easy to see a scenario where we sell Watkins, don't buy Rashford and bring Delap in as a new first choice I reckon.

On the "why wouldn't they just buy Delap?" thing, I think if Watkins leaves then it's to someone bigger and richer than us to add attacking depth. So that's really Arsenal or that link the other day to Liverpool. Play forty matches as part of a squad rather than sixty as first choice. There's not much point Delap playing that role as this stage in his career.

[Dante Lavelli]

Man City allegedly have a buy back option at £20m.

There’s a glut of available strikers this season. Presumably Jonathan David will sign on the 1 June but Osimhen, Rashford, Delap, Hojland, even Watkins could be part of a massive merry go round that’ll run to the end of the window.

For planning purposes, it might be better to keep Watkins and make plans elsewhere.

[Dave]

Man City allegedly have a buy back option at £20m.

There’s a glut of available strikers this season. Presumably Jonathan David will sign on the 1 June but Osimhen, Rashford, Delap, Hojland, even Watkins could be part of a massive merry go round that’ll run to the end of the window.

Reckon you can add Mateta, Lookman, Vlahovic, Gyokeres and Nkunku to that list as well.

[ChicagoLion]

And Delap will move for substantially more than £30m

Bidding war on his £30m release clause?

[Toronto Villa]

And Delap will move for substantially more than £30m

Bidding war on his £30m release clause?

A historically classic H&V discussion.

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

Unless the deal stipulates at the end of the season it's buy or goodbye, Rashford might come on another season long loan. There is a chance if they win the europa, Amorin remains at ManUtd and no other clubs offer him what he wants. He might have made a few new mates here?
I'd definatly be tapping up Delap thought for 30m its a steal, we would probably double our money after one decent 15 goal haul season, which he is well capable of the ammount of chances we create.

[OCD]

They'd have to let him go for that price, but if more than one club was interested they could still get more, right?

Why would any club bid more than they had to? I'd imagine he's going to be a very rich lad.

Sort of stupid thing Chelsea would do.

[Percy McCarthy]

Finances permitting, I think I’d rather have Delap and Cunha than Rashford and Asensio.