How do Ipswich replace Delap?
How do Ipswich move on from Liam Delap?
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With Liam Delap departing for Chelsea in a £30m deal, Ipswich Town will be embarking on their return to the Championship without their top scorer.
Blue Monday podcast's Craig Finbow has been speaking with BBC Radio Suffolk about how the Tractor Boys will be looking to fill the void left by the striker in the summer transfer window.
"It could well be two strikers that they look to get in and that will be the intriguing part," Finbow said.
"What do we do, do we potentially go abroad, do we go down the lower leagues? We've done that before with varying levels of success.
"I'd be quite excited to go abroad and find a striker from there."
Ipswich signed Delap for £15m with potential add-ons worth £5m last season.
Despite former club Manchester City also benefiting financially from Delap's move to Stamford Bridge, Ipswich are set to make a profit which Finbow said will go straight back into the squad - though this has not always been the case.
"What we do know is that it will be reinvested, that hasn't happened in the past," he added.
"It doesn't take a very long memory to know that when we sold Daryl Murphy to Newcastle, we got some money and that was then pocketed and disappeared into the ether."
