Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca was full of praise for Ipswich Town striker Liam Delap, hailing the Blues target as a "fantastic player". It emerged last month that Chelsea were among the suitors for 21-year-old Delap,

Chelsea are expected to be rather quiet with the number of incomings in the January transfer window but there is expected to be movement with players departing. A number of Enzo Maresca's squad are facing uncertain futures at Stamford Bridge for different reasons.

In his time in the City academy he crossed over with Enzo Maresca and some other players and staff members now working at Cobham. Maresca was asked about the striker in his preview of the Ipswich game on Monday night, and had only positive things to say about his former charge: