Fabian Delph - Signed for Manchester City

[Risso]

He will not feature in 30 of Man City's games next season.
I know fcuk all but I promise he will play nothing like that number of games.

I'm almost certain he will. When you consider how many CL games they play, how much further they get in both domestic cups than us and the obvious league games, I'd say he will. He's a lot better than Fernando/Fernandinho/whatever his/their names are.

He really isn't.  He was the second best player in an awful team, but he's nowhere near good enough for the level they're at. 

[Tom_Mc9?]

Navas, Silva, Fernando, Yaya, Fernandinho, Nasri..

I reckon he'll hardly feature. Those are some world class options. 

He's better than the ones in bold and Nasri doesn't play in his position. I think he'll play a few. I guess we'll see in the upcoming months.

[Nelly]

I'm disappointed at the club more than anything. Why allow ourselves to look so incompetent. We're always at the mercy of players and never seem to have the capacity of thought to at least try and spins things to make the club look less silly. Why stick him on all the advertising, FFS. Just brainless.

[Jon Crofts]

May all his children have small penises.  Even the girls.

[Herman]

I can't muster much animosity towards him. He's doing what every other Villa player would do given the chance to move to any top six club. The only reason that it doesn't often happen is that they are largely a band of cloggers and hoofers who wouldn't interest any decent team.
Villa have been an utter shambles for years both on and off the pitch, but for most of the times that I can remember, we've pretty much always been a selling club. The idiots currently running the club have led to it being more so over the last few seasons than at any time in recent history but this situation is nothing new.
Regarding his professing to love the club, I doubt very much that Delph came up with the idea of the speech when he signed the contract. That was likely to be an idea from the club desperate for a bit of decent PR and trying to inject some positivity into the rotting corpse that we have become. Perhaps the positivity injection was intended to avoid being relegated (and perhaps it worked) 
The team have been repeatedly stinking out the league season after season. Who in their right mind would prefer to stay for another relegation struggle with no indication of anything improving, rather than go to a club where they will win trophies. Delph may well be a relatively peripheral figure compared to his role at Villa but IMHO, those predicting a downward spiral in his career will be sadly disappointed. Rather than spend the season scuffling around with the dross at the bottom of the table, he will be in a team guaranteed to be in the top two or three and playing with some of the best players in Europe.
It may work out for him and it may not, but he'll have a far better season or two there than at Villa and, if it doesn't work out for him and he moves on, he'll still end up at a far better team than Villa.
I don't blame him one iota.   

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Modern jornalists, eh? What a wind up.

[cdbearsfan]

On Twitter Scot Sinclair is trending as well as Delph as the common consencus  is this is a similar move with a similar outcome...

Gareth Barry would be a better comparison. He'll be involved in the majority of their games barring injury or a massive loss of form.

Navas, Silva, Fernando, Yaya, Fernandinho, Nasri..

I reckon he'll hardly feature. Those are some world class options.

Of those only Fernadinho plays in the same position, and he won't play ever week.

Toure is finished.

[villadelph]

On Twitter Scot Sinclair is trending as well as Delph as the common consencus  is this is a similar move with a similar outcome...

Gareth Barry would be a better comparison. He'll be involved in the majority of their games barring injury or a massive loss of form.

Navas, Silva, Fernando, Yaya, Fernandinho, Nasri..

I reckon he'll hardly feature. Those are some world class options.

Of those only Fernadinho plays in the same position, and he won't play ever week.

Toure is finished.

Some of you are forgetting how worthless Delph is on the scoresheet, and that's all that matters to City. 8 goals from 100 games, that won't get you first team football there.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Not a top four player imo.His yellows add reds will also hinder them.Stupid move by City, and Delph will lose his England berth within 8 months.

[cdbearsfan]

He said how loyal he was because somebody shoved a microphone in his face and he had to say something.

It was a pre-planned and pre-recorded video, not a spur of the moment interview.

What would you have liked him to say? The club plan an interview with him, he's hardly going to say "thanks for the pay rise. Book me a taxi for July".

And maybe he meant it at the time but has changed his mind since? That does happen. Maybe the Cup Final knocked the last bit of hope out of him and he resigned himself to the fact that he'll never win anything here. I couldn't blame him if so, as I've felt much the same since May.

It seems the mob have already found him guilty though so I'll ask, again, if he's such a terrible person, with no genuine affection for Aston Villa, why didn't he just leave on a free?

[cdbearsfan]

On Twitter Scot Sinclair is trending as well as Delph as the common consencus  is this is a similar move with a similar outcome...

Gareth Barry would be a better comparison. He'll be involved in the majority of their games barring injury or a massive loss of form.

Navas, Silva, Fernando, Yaya, Fernandinho, Nasri..

I reckon he'll hardly feature. Those are some world class options.

Of those only Fernadinho plays in the same position, and he won't play ever week.

Toure is finished.

Some of you are forgetting how worthless Delph is on the scoresheet, and that's all that matters to City. 8 goals from 100 games, that won't get you first team football there.

Gareth Barry 6 goals in 132 Man City games.

Virtually undroppable for his first few seasons there.

[Ads]

You can't defend the weasel words. He's a lying ****** that took us for mugs.

[cdbearsfan]

You can't defend the weasel words. He's a lying c*** that took us for mugs.

If he's a ******, why didn't he leave for free?

People do change their minds.

Is everyone that ever got divorced a lying ******?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

You can't defend the weasel words. He's a lying c*** that took us for mugs.

Ads, we've no idea if the story is true. I have a stange feeling he'll come out this afternoon any deny the rumours.

Stay calm fella.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Sinclair & Rodwell, 2 players they virtually ruined,  plenty of others, players who don't play but don't leave because they are on too much and other clubs can't afford the wages. Wankers fuck modern football