Delap loses shirt number
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Chelsea striker Liam Delap has lost the number nine shirt at the club and is one of several players now training separately to the main squad.
A number of players who could move before the transfer window closes on 1 September - including fellow forward Nicolas Jackson and winger Mykhailo Mudryk - are in a second training group at Cobham.
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But club sources insist it is nothing like the "bomb squad" approach taken last season when several players were frozen out.
Chelsea are seeking £50 million for Delap and trying to reduce the size of their squad before the end of the summer transfer window, with 40 senior players on their books.
Englishman Delap joined the club in a £30m move from Ipswich Town last summer but only scored one Premier League goal in 28 Premier League appearances, 16 of which were as a substitute.
He was awarded the number nine shirt, but that has now gone to fellow forward Joao Pedro.