Fabian Delph - Signed for Manchester City

[old man villa fan]

this on Twitter earlier. Was taken today at Wetherby Food Festival near Leeds. 


@Jbuckers: Met #delph today, quizzed him on the citteh move and he said it was never on the cards and he loves the villa #avfc http://t.co/MJqX4iUral

Deja vu?  I thought I saw that same photo on Twitter the week before preseason training started when the Delph story really started to break in the media.

[exigo]

Stolen from Villatalk, which was taken from twitter. But its too good to not share.

Equally, it's too good not to add the finishing touch to.

[old man villa fan]

Apparently Rodney Marsh said he changed his mind after clearly being told that he would not make any starts and if selected will be on the bench but he said he would love to hear it from Delph as to why he changed his mind? Make what you like of that!

Rodney Marsh = thick ex footballer pundit.  Why would Man City pay £8m for a player they will not play.  Might as well put a kid on the bench and save £8m.

Might have been more plausible if he said that he would only be a squad player, have to fight very hard to get in the team and therefore game time might be limited but that does not sound so 'sensational'.

[Chipsticks]

We kept Ben-tek-e, and didn't lose Jaaack, Delph went to City - and then he came back!

[old man villa fan]

Whilst we fully expect Talksport and Sky to constantly lie , make stuff up and get things wrong, I expect better from the BBC.
For them to run with a main headline of it being a done deal is disgraceful.

Considering their reporting of anything political, why should their football reporting be any different.

[old man villa fan]

I think football has moved on for journalists as well. With the likes of Sky Sports News going 24/7 and the online output I bet the pressure to keep ahead of the story is huge.  Also they can't just chuck £500 at a player to get an inside exclusive about another player like they could've 20 years ago.

I reckon their genuine sources have decreased while the pressure and media cycle has increased. 

Hence they put 2 and 2 together to make 5 a lot. They just guess, they have to.

Totally agree.

[JUAN PABLO]

City Watch @City_Watch
Delph called off his move "after a sleepless night reading angry reactions from fans of the Midlands club" according to the Mirror.
10:05 PM - 11 Jul 2015

At least the Mirror named their source, a Mr A Source. Clever bloke, him, knows loads about loads.

So Delphi does come on here 😜

[walsall villain]

Citeh fans' take on the Delph story:

This has been nothing more than a step in a process where we interviewed a player to assess general suitability and cost benefit. The player (Delph for those guessing) listened to the likes of Andy Gray bleating his nonsense about Milner only getting half a dozen games last season, whereas he must have started 30+ (some CL) and played in 40+ overall, and took advice from our old mate Micah, who wasn't good enough to get a game with us but who steadfastly refused to transfer because nobody else would pay him half of what we were overpaying him.
The player was nervous, was he good enough to earn a place in our 1st 11? He wasn't sure and he didn't have the courage or ambition to make the move without our guaranteeing him game-time, but we were never going to do that because it's the manager's selection and, in any case, we wouldn't want to employ a player who didn't have the courage and self confidence to want to earn his shirt.
Not a problem to the player, as he can stay at the little club where he's a big fish in a small puddle, and we can breath a big sigh of relief because we found him out as the bottle merchant he was before we entered into contract . . phew . . nice one. Now move on.

Haha, what a cockend.

Stay at the little club eh! Short memories some folk. The City fans I have chatted to in the past have seemed decent, this one sounds like a right prat.

[pauliewalnuts]

Stolen from Villatalk, which was taken from twitter. But its too good to not share.

Equally, it's too good not to add the finishing touch to.

Ha ha ace.

[walsall villain]

Westwood reckons they new he wasn't leaving....
http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/9910647/westwood-we-knew-delph-wasnt-leaving?

[old man villa fan]

Westwood reckons they new he wasn't leaving....
http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/9910647/westwood-we-knew-delph-wasnt-leaving?

Give it a couple of hours and The Mirror will be headlining with 'Villa in cover up story to hide the fact that Delph was signing for Man City'

[Percy McCarthy]

You don't say:

Westwood said on Sky Sports that the players were in contact with him and knew he was staying.

[richard moore]

Citeh fans' take on the Delph story:

This has been nothing more than a step in a process where we interviewed a player to assess general suitability and cost benefit. The player (Delph for those guessing) listened to the likes of Andy Gray bleating his nonsense about Milner only getting half a dozen games last season, whereas he must have started 30+ (some CL) and played in 40+ overall, and took advice from our old mate Micah, who wasn't good enough to get a game with us but who steadfastly refused to transfer because nobody else would pay him half of what we were overpaying him.
The player was nervous, was he good enough to earn a place in our 1st 11? He wasn't sure and he didn't have the courage or ambition to make the move without our guaranteeing him game-time, but we were never going to do that because it's the manager's selection and, in any case, we wouldn't want to employ a player who didn't have the courage and self confidence to want to earn his shirt.
Not a problem to the player, as he can stay at the little club where he's a big fish in a small puddle, and we can breath a big sigh of relief because we found him out as the bottle merchant he was before we entered into contract . . phew . . nice one. Now move on.

I predict he's a Citeh fan from about 2011 onwards.

Spot on Paul. No proper Man City fan I know - and I know a few - would say that about Villa. They know exactly how much of a joke club they used to be - at one time they were more of a joke than Newcastle have ever been - and how little it can take to go back there. Toure, Aguerro et al's feet wouldn't touch the ground to get out of there if the money dried up, and even with it they can't really attract the top talent. All served up in the most soulless ground in the Premier League which makes the Emirates look like a Clash concert

[walsall villain]

You don't say:

Westwood said on Sky Sports that the players were in contact with him and knew he was staying.

Bugger, I am regurgitating stuff that's already out there. A career with a newspaper beckons.

[Duncan Shaw]

Do you think it was a ruse by Fab to get us buy Gueye?