Player Topic: Fabian Delph (2015/16)

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Leaving Aston Villa Football Club is the hardest decision I've ever had to make.

“I've had some amazing times and made some great friends during my time at the club and I'll always be thankful to them for giving me the opportunity to play in the Premier League.

“As has been widely reported I initially turned down the opportunity to join Manchester City. That decision was purely down to the love I have for Aston Villa and its great supporters.

“When I was made captain of Villa it was a huge honour for me and I took the responsibility incredibly seriously. I signed my new contract last season with the view of staying at the club for the duration of the deal and never with the intention to leave a year later.

“My decision to stay initially was purely based on the emotion and feelings that I hold for the club and the people there that I would be walking away from - rather than looking at the football opportunity that had been placed in front of me.”

“I've experienced some incredible low times in my career with injuries and at one point even questioned whether I would even return to Premiership level. Despite that, I've always been 100% committed to improving my game and developing as a player and a person.

“As a kid watching the game on TV and then as a young footballer you dream about testing yourself against the best in the world, to compete for major trophies and to play in the Champions League. I've proved that I can play at the very top level with England and believe I owe it to myself to take the challenge of playing for one of the biggest clubs in the world in Manchester City.

“I have been immensely proud to captain such a great club and want to thank everyone at Aston Villa - most importantly the fans - for the amazing support they have shown me during my time there.

“I am now excited for the future with Manchester City and helping the club to succeed in the coming season and beyond."
 
Not sure if this has been mentioned on this thread but surely the news that Liverpool have activated the Benteke selling clause, he must have thought what's the point of ME showing loyalty and Villa are letting Benteke go?
Fook em.
 
Delighted with this signing. From a purely footballing point of view, he's absolutely ideal for us. Huge improvement on our CM back up from last season.

Also from a PR point of view, having a talented player seemingly get cold feet about joining at the last minute wasn't ideal. The fact he's come back and said we're "one of the biggest clubs in the world and it was too good an opportunity to turn down" really is great news.

It's been a fantastic week for the club.
 
TRUE BLUE NO1 said:
Hi stony, SWP..... I'm guessing there is a side joke going on here but that's fine with me!;)
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Hi TrueBlue No1, no mate, not at all. Just trying to follow your friendly example!!!

Not often a thread unfolds like it did today! :-)

All about the De Bruyne and Pogba threads!!
 
Stephenhakin said:
Keep saying thanks but came from 9320agueroooooo
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You're a bona fide Bluemoon legend forever, mate. Thanks for posting, sincerely.

When that picture suddenly came in of him going for the medical. Man, it was good to be on here and see it 'live'. That's when we all knew for definite this was happening.

A pint for you if I ever see you!
 
This is when manuel needs to step up and protect and defend sterling and delph to the hilt publicly..to follow the enevitable which hunt.
 
Not sure if this has already been posted, but the article on Villa's official site relating to this transfer consists of the following two lines, and no more:

"Aston Villa can confirm that Fabian Delph has exercised the release clause in his contract and will join Manchester City.

We'd like to wish him success in his future career".

Erm, glowing, I'm sure!!!
 
Didsbury Dave said:
You're a bona fide Bluemoon legend forever, mate. Thanks for posting, sincerely.

When that picture suddenly came in of him going for the medical. Man, it was good to be on here and see it 'live'. That's when we all knew for definite this was happening.

A pint for you if I ever see you!
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Nah. But thanks. Like i say was my pal lee. Just messaged me totally out of the blue saying signing delph today think it was 10.39. Well before any press got hold of. He never had a bean on it and i only got some bottle at 8/11 haha
 
Crap signing, the fact that we have Fernando and Delph as two of our centre midfielders must have Barca, Bayern and Madrid shitting themselves.

Let's not kid ourselves, he's here because he fills a quota, no other top club would touch him.

Cue the "shit fan", "only been here 2 mins and written him off" comments.
 
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