Our club statement from when he left said:
"Juventus have an obligation to make the transfer permanent this summer for an undisclosed fee".
https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/lloyd-kelly-joins-juventus
Is Delap a straight up striker or can he play across the front line? If he's just a striker I'd be surprised if he went anywhere to be a backup. Probably be a starter at Manure the way things are going there so can see why that would be more appealing to him.
This will never not be hilarious
Even more hilariously, this was a whole thread where they went through every English club they were linked to one by one - with even Palace making the list - with no mention at all of Sunderland