{"id":90677,"date":"2025-05-10T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90677\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T18:13:10","slug":"liam-delap-says-player-leeds-united-sold-is-so-good-hes-rubbing-shoulders-with-cole-palmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90677\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Delap says\u00a0player Leeds United sold is \u2018so good\u2019, he\u2019s rubbing shoulders with Cole Palmer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeds United have produced plenty of the talent littered throughout the Premier League and the EFL over the last few decades.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fabian Delph and Aaron Lennon were consistent Premier League players for a number of years, while James Milner<\/a> is one of the greatest Leeds United academy<\/a> products of recent times, even as a Championship<\/a> side.<\/p>\n

Kalvin Phillips and Lewis Cook are also playing\u00a0top flight\u00a0football, but Leeds<\/a> have other academy graduates that they will hope can make the grade at Premier League<\/a> level to save the club plenty of cash in the long-term as well.<\/p>\n

Harry Gray<\/a> is the latest in the Gray dynasty to collect first-team experience and for fans to get excited about, just one year after Archie Gray<\/a> broke through. The Spurs utility man also has an incredibly bright future and is looking to follow in the footsteps of Milner and co.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Archie Gray compared to Jude Bellingham and Cole Palmer by Ipswich Town\u2019s Liam Delap<\/p>\n

Leeds sold Archie Gray last summer for \u00a340 million<\/a> to Tottenham Hotspur, with Ange Postecoglou utilising the 19-year-old in a number of different roles this term. He has been deployed at both right and left-back, as well as in central midfield and at centre-back.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s perhaps played more minutes than most expected, given a Spurs injury crisis in defensive areas earlier this season. Gray was also almost an ever-present under Daniel Farke<\/a>, operating as either a central midfield player or a right-back last term.<\/p>\n

Now, further praise has emerged regarding his talent level and his potential ceiling. Ipswich Town\u2019s Liam Delap has been a revelation as one of the brightest young centre-forwards in English football this term.<\/p>\n

He has spoken to Sky Sports about some of the most naturally gifted teammates he has had so far, having been asked: \u201cWe want you to pick out the most talented player you\u2019ve played with?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Delap responded: \u201cMorgan Rogers, Archie Gray, Jude Bellingham, and Cole Palmer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe, obviously, always spoke about what we wanted to do. I think we all wanted to play in the Prem.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve probably had the debate a million times before with Morgan. He\u2019s probably one of the most argumentative guys I\u2019ve ever met.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all knew everyone had so much quality, it was just about going and showing that. I think everyone\u2019s shown that now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Archie recently, just played with him a few times with England \u2014 he\u2019s still so young. There\u2019s so much potential and I\u2019ve played against him a few times this season. He\u2019s so good.<\/p>\n

\u201cMorgan \u2014 my best mate \u2014 he\u2019ll probably kill me for not picking him! But it\u2019s between Jude and Cole, I think.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played with Jude when I was growing up at England \u2014 and what he\u2019s doing now is incredible. I can\u2019t really not choose him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Robbie Jay Barratt \u2013 AMA\/Getty ImagesLeeds must not let Harry Gray join Spurs with Archie Gray<\/p>\n

Earlier in the summer of 2024,\u00a0Farke<\/a>\u00a0took\u00a0six youngsters with the Leeds squad to Germany<\/a>\u00a0for a pre-season training camp alongside the senior squad. One of those six was a then 15-year-old wonderkid\u00a0Harry Gray<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Farke has had to speak to Harry Gray<\/a> regarding keeping his feet on the ground recently, with so much excitement regarding his future. Aaron Lennon believes Harry Gray has the potential<\/a>\u00a0to be something really special.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but Archie and Harry could reunite at Tottenham<\/a>,\u00a0such has been the interest from the Premier League giants. However, Leeds should be fighting tooth and nail to retain him in the short and the long-term.<\/p>\n

Now that they are a Premier League outfit again, they stand a much greater chance of keeping hold of their brightest stars.\u00a0That\u2019s despite the potential of Leeds needing some PSR sales this summer<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United have produced plenty of the talent littered throughout the Premier League and the EFL over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[19055,1172,94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-90677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-archie-gray","9":"tag-cole-palmer","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114484897687033264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}