Summer Transfer Window 2019

[roydo]

He’ll want first team football every week or he would carry on sitting on the bench at City. My guess is he’ll go back to Villa.

I thought he left them under a very very large cloud. Or was that someone else? Told the club he would be signing/staying, then bolted at the first sight of the City offer?

 

[COYBL25]

Delph could surprise us. Versatile player and good squad player for sure.

We already have Schneiderlin to fulfil the over paid waster squad player role.

 

[Toast]

I thought he left them under a very very large cloud. Or was that someone else? Told the club he would be signing/staying, then bolted at the first sight of the City offer?

I was thinking this too.
Was deffo something about his move that caused bad feeling.

 

[COYBL25]

I thought he left them under a very very large cloud. Or was that someone else? Told the club he would be signing/staying, then bolted at the first sight of the City offer?

You`re spot on.

He even went on record with their local paper as saying he wasn`t going anywhere and then City came in !

 

[The_La]

I was thinking this too.
Was deffo something about his move that caused bad feeling.

You snake! Angry Aston Villa fans fire parting shot at Fabian Delph as

Supporters pin banner to stadium gates after captain makes dramatic u-turn to exit club

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Bungle]

I thought he left them under a very very large cloud. Or was that someone else? Told the club he would be signing/staying, then bolted at the first sight of the City offer?

I was thinking this too.
Was deffo something about his move that caused bad feeling.

Yep not a popular figure by the sounds of it

Fabian Delph joins Manchester City after double U-turn in a week

Fabian Delph has performed a surprising second U-turn in a week by joining Manchester City from Aston Villa in an £8m deal

www.theguardian.com

 

[buededw1]

Yep not a popular figure by the sounds of it

Fabian Delph joins Manchester City after double U-turn in a week

Fabian Delph has performed a surprising second U-turn in a week by joining Manchester City from Aston Villa in an £8m deal

www.theguardian.com

I dont blame him ... Villa or City.... Villa at the time had the most awkward owner as well.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I think it does matter that he gets us, on the flipside I don't think it matters which manager brought him here. I don't know if you're a match goer or not but I genuinely think match goers would appreciate Coleman as a captain more. You don't see him sprinting 70 yards to back his mates up on the tele. I am not opposed to change but I don't think it is needed for changes sake.

To me the captain isn't made to appease the fans it is made to set forward who you want the leader of the club to be. For me that means obviously the person should be a leader in the squad but also should be someone who is playing at the standard we want. That leaves Digne and Keane since Seamus is probably not going to be an automatic starter much longer and even if he is doesn't hit the level of someone like Digne.

Now if Seamus is the clear leader of the team and no one steps up to that level it will have to be him. But I still don't think who the supporters see as their representative should matter at all.

 

[buededw1]

See Maxi --> WHam is off!

Doesn't surprise me, just laughing at the West Ham fan in the office about there phantom bids

 

[sharkey1001]

Or a "Phil Neville" type.

my spine just shuddered there! What an absolute parasite he was!

 

[mkrudden]

So who’s place is he taking in our team out of interest?
Also the 17/18 season city and an injury crisis at left back, so I would imagine most of them games he played were at left back. And they had won the league so easy that year, that he probably got a few token starts at the end of season

Also this season mendy was out injured again. And city had a few injuries in midfield this season. He played 11 games in the league last season. I’m not sure how many he started.

He’s played 57 games in 4 years for a team who play 60 games a season. That’s nothing special and take away the injury crisis at left back, that probably leaves 37. Count league cup games, early rounds of the FA cup, dead rubbers in Europe. And he’s not starting many important games.

If city have a fully fit squad, he wouldn’t even make the bench.

Gana, Gomes and Sig aren't going to play every single game.

And the drop after them to Schneiderlin and Davies is so significant we are a completely different, inferior team when the 3 above are rested / injured.

Delph for £10-15m is a no brainer. To me, anyway.

 

[coollino]

A good word for tomorrow.

 

[BrendanGOT]

He's on £90k a week at City, he would have to take a £50k a week drop in wages for it to make sense for us, can't see him taking that much of a hit.

50k basic and bonus based incentive style contract could work well for us.

 

[BrendanGOT]

We already have Schneiderlin to fulfil the over paid waster squad player role.

lol true but going by what he's said previously he wants to leave

 

[Arteta10]

my spine just shuddered there! What an absolute parasite he was!

He makes me cringe. Made up the women got knocked out the world cup imagine Phil Neville being a world cup winner