Man City get FFP transfer blow after club admit academy signing is in balance

Manchester City have made a useful habit of selling homegrown players for millions of pounds and this summer could be no exception.

Among those players who could be sold for profit – which would register as pure profit on City's Financial Fair Play accounts – is striker Liam Delap, who has experienced a series of mixed loan moves in recent seasons.

Delap finally found his feet at Hull this season just gone, scoring eight times in the Championship either side of a frustrating injury setback around the turn of the New Year. He proved a popular signing at the KCOM Stadium, with the Tigers keen to keep him next season in some capacity.

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Hull vice-chairman Tan Kesler has confirmed that his side are in talks with City over keeping Delap next season. "The chairman wants him so badly," he told Hull Live.

"If we didn't have Financial Fair Play and EFL regulations he [Chairman Acun Ilicali] would have literally invested in him and tried to buy him. You know how he is, he's [Ilicali] very passionate for football, very passionate for improvement and we like him [Delap] so much.

"At the end of the day, he belongs to Man City and also he probably has his own agenda. We've been talking to his agent. I don't see why not, but it has to make [financial] sense. We have to be able to spend money but also generate money for him. A loan back to us could be an option if Man City doesn't sell him."

Delap has two years left on his City contract and would be worth a decent amount of money after his Hull loan if the Etihad club decided to sell – and he is