Well, this is a turn up for the books isn’t it?
Fabian Delph has come out with a totally unequivocal statement that says he’s staying. Here are the actual words that have come from the horse’s mouth, as reported on the OS;
“I’m aware there has been intense media speculation surrounding my future in the last 24 hours and I want to set the record straight.
“I’m not leaving. I’m staying at the football club and I can’t wait for the start of the season and captaining this great football club.”
This is fantastic news, in my opinion, as I’ve always liked the player and think he would be a major loss to the team.
That said though, it’s all quite embarrassing, as without re-reading my previous replies on here, I’m not 100% convinced about if I slated the man or not.
After all, all the papers were reporting things as though it was absolutely a done deal, with some suggesting that the only barrier to the player actually signing, was the medical.
And well, when so many papers get on the bandwagon, it’s difficult to argue and it’s easier to accept it as fact isn’t it?
In my defence, I did think the idea of Delph going to Man City was a bit preposterous, especially at the £8 or 10 million that was mentioned.
Ah, I remember what I previously said.
It was that Gueye was obviously a replacement for Delph. That’s obviously been proven incorrect and I’m happy to say that I was wrong. It was a criticism more aimed at the club than the player though and yet again AVFC haven’t come out in a good light in my opinion.
While behind the scenes, the club might have been laughing their proverbials off, knowing the story wasn’t true and with me understanding that they won’t resort to answering every little bit of rumour, I think they should have nipped this rumour in the bud much, much faster than they did.
I mean, it wasn’t as though we were talking about a player we didn’t rate, hence him being insignificant, was it?
This was the club captain, who had pledged his loyalty only a few months back.
Of course, the same bastard papers that started this rumour are now saying that it’s a U-turn on Delph’s part, which hints that the club have massively upped Delph’s wages.
I don’t believe this for one minute. I think the player had no intention of leaving and it was frankly pure lies by certain papers. Lies that even sucked other papers in, so strong was their case.
I totally welcome this statement and if the team does start to perform better and indeed move upward, I reckon Delph could well go down as a legend in years to come because he didn’t abandon a sinking ship. I’ve added a poll, to see if you agree or not. [polldaddy poll=8975170]
If Benteke goes I can see C Austin coming in I could be wrong.
I’ve thought the very same thing,but while this benteke saga drags on someone like the geordies might just snap him up.
Goog point Giddy, surely we should be trying to get Austin – Can see us selling Benteke without a replacement, it smells of financial tightness by Lerner as normal.
Your right saddened no way would Ebenezer sacrifice that sort of figure without the additional cash from benteke saying that GUEYE & this LB plus Austin he wouldn’t be out of pocket so far this window.
ebenezer lol
i honestly think that gueye was signed as a replacement for delph . unless benteke leaves we will only sign a few squad players. its still sell to buy. lerner got caught out by delph . why did it all go quiet about gueye then just when it was looking like delph was going to city villa announced the signing of gueye. delph threw a spanner in lerners plan lol. lerner does not want to spend unless benteke is sold and even then i dont think sherwood will get the full amount to spend on new players. ebenezer just about sums lerner up over the last few years.
If benteke goes we should get Ben Yedder and Charlie Austin. Can also pay for amavi and chery.
I think one will follow the other.
Stirling to man city
benteke to liverpool
austin to villa
why hasn’t anybody else signed austin already.
We should be going for Austin anyway Steve, for two reasons, the first being we could sell Benteke and be without a replacement, but on top of that, once Benteke has gone they will know we have cash and can up their asking price.
If Benteke is hell bent on leaving and Sherwood has accepted it then this is what I would try to do:
1. Bung him 1/2 mil to cancel the £32.5 mil release clause
2. Encourage a bidding war between interested parties. We all know how much the bin dippers have in the safe now. And if indeed Manure are interested, then there is NO way that they wont outbid their most bitter rivals!
Make it work in OUR favour!
Does anyone think this plan could work? If not, why not?
MATE the only way of doing that is offering him a new contract,no way could they start deleting clauses & bunging him cash to do that.one minute the clause Is there then the next minute gone clubs offering the buy out clause would have some serious questions for club & then report us for irregularities.
Benteke wants the club not to price him out the market hence this amount I gather pleases both parties but obviously not the fans.
Giddy.. I guess your right mate. Its just a thought as the buy out clause is too low IMO. I dont know if BP is interested in ‘that item’ but feel free to give him my email addy if he wants it. The other option is that you simply forward that link to him.
LOL ‘forward that link’??? That’s beyond my knowledge MATE I’ll just send the addy now that’s in my capabilities. 😀
Lol….ok mate. Did you read my comment about ‘the brewery’ on page 2 of this post? No offence mate 🙂
Yes MATE bang on 😀
If anything is real in the distorted world of football transfers then £32.5m for Benteke is a good deal and one, I suspect, Villa fans would accept if it wasn’t for the ridiculous sum being paid for Stirling but then it is Citeh after all. The other major concern is whether our illustrious owner will pocket most of the proceeds rather than reinvesting in the team – we will have to wait on that one.
However, what concerns me more is that this will be played out to the last day of the transfer window and we’ll have no time to get in a sensible replacement. Villa may well have to compromise in order to make their own moves
H60, the biggest distortion for me is this;
Pool offered Stirling £100k a week, which he apparently knocked back.
So then Citeh are rumoured to have offered him £200k.
Did they really need to offer to double his wages to get him to come in?
Probably not but I think it says more about Stirling than Citeh in this instance
Hmm, I think both are major indicators of what’s wrong with the game 🙁
“Aston Villa ‘favourites to sign 96 goals in 192 games striker in shock transfer ”
and who is this striker the metro is reporting we are going to sign .
have a guess ?
its the one and only .
Emmanuel Adebayor
the london media will not let this fecking made up bullshit story go will they lol
i actually got excited by this headline till i read the fecking story.
feck you metro !
Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if we got him,Sherwood would be nothing but praising the signing.
he is on £100k a week at spurs . the only way we will sign him is if spurs paid about half his wages and we all know Daniel Levy would never agree to that.
Domingo, that’s exactly what the rumour is.
Spurs pay a chunk of his wages.
They (the club and fans) quite simply want him gone.
really cant see levy agreeing to paying half his wages. everyone knows how tight levy is . they will want someone to take him off there hands lock stock and barrel and would Adebayor allow them to ship him off. he must be loving it £100k a week for doing feck all living down in london. he will sit out his contract then go and play in china or the middle east for another fat paycheck.. well that’s what im hoping 🙂
and now i just read spurs want £5m for him. i would rather have no-one than pay £5m for this lazy fecker. hopefully even if sherwood wants him tom fox will say NO !.
nearly 31 on £100k a week and spurs want £5m for him lol. feck me.
Fcku me I agree. They should pay us £5m to get shot of him ffs. I’d take him in a straight swap for vlaar that’s about it I’d rather have Giddy and Bill Pearson up front tbh!!
Claudio Ranieri…new Foxes manager. Its good to have ‘Mr Tinkerman’ back in the PL IMO
Not as good as having Bunn at VP!!! 🙂
Would have liked him for us much better than deadwood and Lamberk put together
You’re in dreamland. Ranieri’s good but not all that.
He got Cheksea to second probably get Leicester finishing higher than us
Have you still got the hots for him? 🙂
You have to admit he is a TASTY. 😉
Yes, like mine with jam and cream…I feel a wankfest oming on 🙂
Will he be an iced Bunn after you’ve finished? 🙂
No…..sperm gets thinner as you get older. Its more like egg white these days 🙂 and I’m not yoking!
And moving on…………..
I’m off for a beer….bye
Oh dear 🙂 that’s not Bunny lol
Not going to start criticising Villa’s spend just yet. Prepared to wait and see what happens as we’ve still got until August 31 before the transfer window slams shut and we’re only halfway through July.
Anyone moaning at this point has a very good chance of having egg on their faces when they start second guessing what’s going to happen. Wait and see and then moan if you want.
Personally,having looked in my crystal ball (the one that predicted we’d get to the cup final not the one that said we’d beat the Arse) I think we’re all in for a surprise or two!
UTV
Transfer window closes on September 1st at 6pm as the day before is a bank holiday Pat. 🙂
Point was that there’s still a hell of a along way to go.
Oh….Apologies….Would of hated to of seen you with egg on your face BEFORE the window had even shut. 🙂
I will be glad when the window closes. It’s such a distraction. I find myself scouring the web for transfer rumours several times a day. There’s still 7 weeks to go. I need to get a life!
LOL it does send you loopy after awhile. 😀
I’ve heard that Randy does the same! I can picture him counting his pennies/cents out of his horrible bosses piggy bank 🙂
Its the malt that sent you loopy lol 🙂
Langford did you get my email ?
Ahh you must of got my email BILL.
Sure did problem is did Langford? Sent 2 hours ago.
Deffo the correct addy he did s
ay he was off to the boozer MATE.
He did yes, I’m getting it down me now at home, I cannot get the ball and chain off the missus watching me, still end of the week I’m on the water free booze mate.☝
Seems Gueye’s getting a more free role, which probably means Delph’s not going to get forward as much, although with as much running as they both do, they could both get forward and get back in time. But Gueye’s better going forward, Delph’s better on the defensive side so could work well in a partnership.
Sherwood reckons they’ll be playing side by side, but I suspect they might alternate in going forward, with the aim being that the oppo don’t know who to watch.
That could be a good tactic.
Or, given that Gueye is basically supposed to be more defensive, with his attacking side only being a recent thing, I suspect that the idea is that we can attack the weaker teams and play deeper against the better sides, while allowing more width.
Which means Westwood is merely backup, imo.
But wtf do I know? 🙂
And Sanchez would be backup too.
But whatever, we do seem to have plenty of options in the middle.
Suspect you are right. Gives us options to go three in midfield and I suspect Sanchez to come on when we want to see out games. Then there’s Gardner who can a lot from Gueye’s more attacking side.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/raheem-sterling-backed-himself-shine-6059140
Andrew, to me Sterling is doing in life what he’s does in football, a selfish person, he never looks up to pass a ball always goes it alone, not taking it away that he can play, he can but always goes for glory. He’s defiantly sharp, quick, and that’s it, 49 mil? No, even Hodgson plays him at curtain times for England, he’s a 20 year old kid being led up the garden path, he’ll be a target for any defender in the coming season.will Benteke be Liverpool’s target? No..I don’t think so. I will watch his progress coming season.
Bill, Sterling represents everything that Is wrong with football and, sadly, with our ‘get rich quick and sod everyone else’ society. A bit of humility, respect and hard work are not bad qualities to have – unfortunately Sterling possesses none of them and yet the media get on the back of Jack Grealish telling us that footballers are role models – well tell me which one is the worst example?
That article made my stomach turn, and showed me what a load of class one, horse shite the Mirror Group (including the Bham Mail) spew out about the Villa…. They think Sterling is a hungry, go-getter with desire and Delph is a gutless coward ….. you just could not make it up !
have to say i felt exactly the same. instead of saying delph decided to stay and fight to improve villa and safeguard his england place they did try and make it sound like he was cowardly. that,s the papers for you . loyalty is becoming a dirty word according to them and that’s not just in football.
Hitch, I agree, I cannot for the love of the game understand why media hype selfish players like him, he will not let the ball go most times in a game, still let them get on with it. Giddy , Oohah’s wants us to play upfront for him, I’ve looked everywhere for my boots with ankle guards and steel toe caps, he thinks we would do better than that shite player at Spurs. Could be right,☝
Bill…was out on the pop last night. I have emailed you the link that you need.
Cheer’s mate got it.
Just read the Mirror article. Thye’re just stirring it and trying to be a bit different thats all. Stirling is a money grabber and Delph isn’t. They’d report black as white if it suited them.
Just hope that same journalist covers the story of Delph being one England’s heroes while Stirling doesn’t even get on the bench having had zero games with Citeh.
Stirling is only 20 so he has a lot of time to repent his decision.