Fabian Delph - Signed for Manchester City

[Steve67]

Man City will soon see that Delph won't cut it at that level. He isn't hugely creative, a good goalscorer, a great tackler etc. Was the best of what is a pretty poor bunch of midfielders at Villa. I would have liked him to stay and be our energy alongside Gueye but not to be. Fuck him.

[Villa in Denmark]

Legion's video.
1. Spot on.
2. Delivery is as funny as fuck.
3. A Geordie in the media who's likeable!

[ciggiesnbeer]

NSFW

LMFAO

I loved the Micha Richards bit.

[LeeB]

Fuck the weasel shitbag and that, but I think he's a bloody good player and he'll succeed up there.

[Ron Manager]

Im more concerned for Mrs Delph. If she doesn't give birth soon Man City will have transferred him to Liverpool in exchange for Benteke.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

All is not lost; with a careful hand, a Sharpie and some Tippex, one can alter a Villa Shirt with DELPH on the back to read DOLPHIN, RELPH or for those trendy pop pickers amongst us, ADELE.
HTH

[Malandro]

Not sure why I watched it,but just looked at the video of Delph in the club shop with Mike Summerbee.

What a smug old carp Summerbee is. Probably wishful thinking but Delph's body language doesn't look good, he looks very uncomfortable. Snake fuck.

[MoetVillan]

Good luck about teaching your kids about loyalty and honesty Delph.

[Risso]

Fuck the weasel shitbag and that, but I think he's a bloody good player and he'll succeed up there.

I honestly don't Lee. He isn't particularly good at one area of the game. I think if he plays regularly, Man City won't be finishing top 4.

[dave shelley]

Not sure why I watched it,but just looked at the video of Delph in the club shop with Mike Summerbee.

What a smug old carp Summerbee is. Probably wishful thinking but Delph's body language doesn't look good, he looks very uncomfortable. Snake fuck.

I've been thinking something similar since he deserted.  He hasn't looked as happy as I imagine he should.  It's as if; despite all that's gone on, he knows he will end up a splinter cushion, albeit a rich one.  Time will tell.

[brian green]

Pedantic post alert.
Strangely chaotic negotiations are an intellectual hot topic currently.   Delph's negotiations with his past and present employers have certainly been chaotic.   The broadsheets have been running pieces by economists and political pundits with the headline is "Yanis Varoufakis mad?".   Varoufakis was the finance minister of the Greek government, since removed, who wanted a new deal from the rest of Europe over Greek debt.
Where the Delph business comes into this is because Varoufakis is an acknowledged authority in the world of negotiating strategies known as "games".  In these negotiation "games" there are "inside" solutions and "outside" solutions.  Using the Delph negotiations as an example an "outside" solution is when nothing is agreed. Delph does not sign a Villa contract and he walks.   Nothing changes. An "inside" solution is one where Delph signs and terms are agreed.   A compromise is reached.
The metaphor which is used to describe a negotiating "game" is one of two cars driving towards each other at speed on a collision course.   If neither car swerves they crash and everybody dies.  However, if one of the drivers can convince the other driver that he is mad/stupid enough to kill himself, the other car swerves.  If the driver of the one car waves the steering wheel of his car out of the drivers window demonstrating that he has no control, the other car swerves.   But it was only a dummy steering wheel.   Makes no odds they won.
In Varoufakis"s case he tried to convince the EU that Greece would see the whole European edifice come tumbling down rather than pay Greek debts and the EU cave in. (Hence the implication was waving the steering wheel out of the car window by pretending to be mad).   The EU stood firm, called his bluff and Varoufakis was down the road.
In Delph's case his steering wheel out of the window was to create a situation where everybody (me included) thought he could not possibly go back on the statements he had made, but yes he could, he did, and he won.   I do not think Villa were his agents' target, it was Man City.   They got a hugely more profitable and probably all sorts of appearance guarantees out of Manchester City by game playing.
That is my lay appreciation of negotiation game playing.   The financial pages of The Times and the FT explain it more professionally and clearly.

[Percy McCarthy]

Not sure why I watched it,but just looked at the video of Delph in the club shop with Mike Summerbee.

What a smug old carp Summerbee is. Probably wishful thinking but Delph's body language doesn't look good, he looks very uncomfortable. Snake fuck.

I've been thinking something similar since he deserted.  He hasn't looked as happy as I imagine he should.  It's as if; despite all that's gone on, he knows he will end up a splinter cushion, albeit a rich one.  Time will tell.

He's ashamed of himself.

[Ron Manager]

Not sure why I watched it,but just looked at the video of Delph in the club shop with Mike Summerbee.

What a smug old carp Summerbee is. Probably wishful thinking but Delph's body language doesn't look good, he looks very uncomfortable. Snake fuck.

I've been thinking something similar since he deserted.  He hasn't looked as happy as I imagine he should.  It's as if; despite all that's gone on, he knows he will end up a splinter cushion, albeit a rich one.  Time will tell.

He's ashamed of himself.

You can see he thinks he has done the right thing and the wrong thing combined. He might regret the former.
Doesn't like this bad publicity in any way but he should have given this move more thought. He is now seen as a pariah by supporters of most clubs . Before ,it was that Delph bloke who plays for the Villa he's not bad you know.

Well he is bad!!

[dave shelley]

Correct Percy.  I could have saved myself typing time.

[Steve R]

That guy on the video also touches on another interesting point, the composition of the ManCity squad. Is this really a group of players who will dig in and get results come the business end of the season?

I wouldn't want my future dependent upon the personal qualities of the likes of Toure, Nasri and Sterling. Best of luck Pellegrini.