Fabian Delph - Signed for Manchester 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.

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

It happens.

[clash city rocker]

So now we are a small puddle..!! That made me chuckle. I am proud to be one of the small puddles...at least we have some soul left. The big puddles can't seem to get their heads round the fact that money can't buy everything. It can buy you lots of plastic wankers but it can't buy you soul. I look forward to the new season with the rest of the small puddles at the historic  Villa Park.

[Damo70]

The City fans didn't want him anyway and don't care that he hasn't gone there. And they are proving this by bitterly banging on about how little they care. Their total disbelief is managing to make their friends across the city look modest in comparison.

[nordenvillain]

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

Sorry, I can't agree with you about Man City fans. I have worked in Manchester for over 40 years and remember the way United fans conveniently forgot everything that happened in the Football League after 1967 until they won the Premier League. Now most City fans I know have airbrushed the time when they were crap and a laughing stock and have memories going back less then 10 years. I've said before and I'll say it again, their situation is like a kid being told by their parent or guardian that there was a sweet shop across the corridor that was permanently unlocked and take whatever you want whenever you want. They have no members of their 1st team squad that came through their academy system, although they now have an enviable academy set up but will take years to produce anything approaching a conveyor belt for their 1st team. They are a plastic club now with a majority of supporters who think the solution to winning the PL is to go out and buy evermore players that cost astronomical amounts. At least United have an academy system that consistently produces players both for their 1st team and other team's 1st team squads.

[Toronto Villa]

Their bitterness and delusion wasn't helped by Man U landing Schweinsteiger on the same day. They won't get Pogba and like they tend to do overpay for the player a step or two below. There was a Man City fan on the Talksport show last night at that was a brilliant example of what some of them have become. I don't think for a second he represented what used to be the majority but is a number that is falling steadily. They have a growin sense of entitlement which is a far cry from who they used to be.

[exigo]

Top trending topic on twitter now is '£45 million for Sterling', which just goes to show the premium paid for English players. Maybe Delph needs a release clause every bit as big as Benteke's.

[OCD]

There's the older generation of City supporters who were there during the rough times and a newer generation who have a spoiled sense of entitlement.

[kippaxvilla2]

I don't have a problem with Citeh.  They were getting decent crowds in the third division a few years ago.  They are a traditional club unlike fcukin Chavski.  All clubs have their delusional idiots.  Just hope we can compete at that level one days.

[old man villa fan]

I don't have a problem with Citeh.  They were getting decent crowds in the third division a few years ago.  They are a traditional club unlike fcukin Chavski.  All clubs have their delusional idiots.  Just hope we can compete at that level one days.

How many of those fans were still watching with 2m to go in the play-off final and losing 2-0 to Gillingham.

[Tony Erdington]

I don't have a problem with Citeh.  They were getting decent crowds in the third division a few years ago.  They are a traditional club unlike fcukin Chavski.  All clubs have their delusional idiots.  Just hope we can compete at that level one days.

agree

[ciggiesnbeer]

No issue with man City fans either. Mostly the least repellent of the monied clubs. It is also telling there has not been a single peep out of Man City itself confirming their interest.

One thing that just seems like complete bollocks (like all of the story) is this alleged buy out clause.

So we are asked to believe an England international midfielder is available for 8 million quid and yet only the richest club in the league could be bothered to chance their arm and activate it to talk with him?
 Really?

I mean, that makes no bloody sense at all. Every club in the league can afford that price and the majority of clubs could use a player like Delph in one way or another.

[Rigadon]

Great news he's staying. I don't really care why / the circumstances. 

[UK Redsox]

So now we are a small puddle..!! That made me chuckle. I am proud to be one of the small puddles...at least we have some soul left. The big puddles can't seem to get their heads round the fact that money can't buy everything. It can buy you lots of plastic wankers but it can't buy you soul. I look forward to the new season with the rest of the small puddles at the historic  Villa Park.

Soul Puddle Martyrs

[clash city rocker]

Redsox. ..you have to be a fuckin martyr to follow the villa..!

[Ron Manager]

I don't have a problem with Citeh.  They were getting decent crowds in the third division a few years ago.  They are a traditional club unlike fcukin Chavski.  All clubs have their delusional idiots.  Just hope we can compete at that level one days.

Manchester City have never been relegated to the Third Division. and certainly not a few years ago.