Fabian Delph - Signed for Manchester City

[martyn ellis]

It's not Delph. It's not the club. It's not even greed. It's the pathetic state our game is in, which allows the richest to stockpile players, whether homegrown or not, whilst the rest struggle to avoid relegation with their threadbare squads, having sold all their stars to the selfsame clubs. It's a sickener - and I just renewed too.

[Tom_Mc9?]

That's quite doom and gloom.

[Tom_Mc9?]

It's not Delph. It's not the club. It's not even greed. It's the pathetic state our game is in, which allows the richest to stockpile players, whether homegrown or not, whilst the rest struggle to avoid relegation with their threadbare squads, having sold all their stars to the selfsame clubs. It's a sickener - and I just renewed too.

I wouldn't worry: we're going to buy some fucking ace players.

[Tucson Villain]

Hope he is taking the drum with him.

[Jimbo]

What happened to all the "exciting times ahead" from all the villa alums?

It's going to be exciting watching us try to stay up with no players.

[Jon Crofts]

I've had enough of this shit.  Football is fucking ruined.

[UK Redsox]

And, just to prove their idiocy, this is what they've just tweeted all of three minutes ago.

I shit you not.

[UK Redsox]

I've had enough of this shit.  Football is fucking ruined.

[eamonn]

I'm pretty sure he'll give a ''leaving'' statement to us lot. Be interesting to see what he says. He's quite a straight-talking guy in interviews and seems to eschew the typical footballer media-trained brain-dead drivel they always come out with.

So come on Fab, for the last time, lets hear your Yorkshire honesty.

[dave.woodhall]

I'm pretty sure he'll give a ''leaving'' statement to us lot. Be interesting to see what he says. He's quite a straight-talking guy in interviews and seems to eschew the typical footballer media-trained brain-dead drivel they always come out with.

So come on Fab, for the last time, lets hear your Yorkshire honesty.

I'm pretty sure he'll give a ''leaving'' statement to us lot. Be interesting to see what he says. He's quite a straight-talking guy in interviews and seems to eschew the typical footballer media-trained brain-dead drivel they always come out with.

So come on Fab, for the last time, lets hear your Yorkshire honesty.

You lying, whippet-racing, coal in the bath wanker.

[OCD]

I'm pretty sure he'll give a ''leaving'' statement to us lot. Be interesting to see what he says. He's quite a straight-talking guy in interviews and seems to eschew the typical footballer media-trained brain-dead drivel they always come out with.

So come on Fab, for the last time, lets hear your Yorkshire honesty.

Something along the lines of 'Man City was too good an opportunity to turn down' I expect.

[Toronto Villa]

Truth is for this shit not to keep happening to us we need to get higher in the football food chain. We are taking Gueye, Man City are taking Delph. Until such time the club sorts itself out we can expect more of this and even if it does the likelihood is we will still lose our best players. We just have a slightly higher chance of hanging on to them. It's always been this way. We've just fallen further down the food chain over the years.

[Chris_Jephcott]

I'm seriously annoyed by this - not because he's going but because of his talk about how he loves the club so much.

It's a sad fact now that every club apart from the top 5-6 are now effectively feeders - we unearth the talent, mature it up and then they come on and buy to bolster their own squads. I think it's a really sad fact but this behaviour isn't going to stop in football.

It'll be the same story every couple of years - we unearth the next big talent, they play well, they get sold and we make a profit.

If we want to compete, the best thing that we can do is to keep on going and then cash in to make the money and then spend it on rebuilding. It's something I feel that Southampton have done particularly well at, and I also feel that if this is going to be the story of football nowadays then it's something we sadly must conform to.

If we do sell Benteke and Delph, that'll be over £40 million to spend on rebuilding. 4 £10 million rated players maybe? That would probably help sooth the pain a bit.

But above all else, we are Aston Villa. No club is bigger than 1 man. And whereas his loss will be felt and the anger comes from the way he spoke about the club, we will recover. We will get new players. And we will be a stronger squad.

And on a final note. Delph's a disco-****** for those words he said about us back in January.

[phantom limb]

When you lose your best players you're supposed to get shitloads of money for them, and then buy someone else who later becomes really good and you then sell for shitloads of money and so on. We've been crap at doing that by and large.

[Malandro]

I'm not good enough for Aston Villa would be a half decent opener