Confirmed Signing Fabian Delph

[DanB90]

Always handy to have a good utility player in the team.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

ANNOUNCE DELPH

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Delph coming in probably means Schneiderlin and McCarthy are off

If they're staying then we honestly don't need him as we've got plenty of senior midfielders on the books already

I must say, Delph is a pretty underwhelming signing, but I'll give him a chance

We could be looking at the first proper duffer of the Brands Era though. To be honest, we needed this, the "Brand Is God" crew needed a hard dose of reality

 

[ijjysmith]

I’m happy about it at all.

I find this move so EFFING weird that I missed the word ‘not’ out of this post.

 

[ijjysmith]

ANNOUNCE DELPH

Please don’t.

 

[LostLegend]

If the fee is as reported and he’s not on a crazy contract, then it’s a decent budget buy for extra squad depth (albeit a strange one)

If he’s a replacement for Gana, then it’s a no from me!

 

[DanEFC92]

It stinks of Steve Walsh.

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

Meh, hopefully he's another Barry. Everybody was shrugging their shoulders over that one as well but look what a great signing he was for a few years.

Maybe he's viewed as a replacement for Gueye?

For me the difference there is that Barry was a player I very much admired throughout his career. Although I did indeed have serious reservations when we signed him, he was able to prove me wrong. But he was starting from a higher base.
Delph by contrast is someone I’ve never thought of as anything but a decent player nothing particularly exceptional about him for me. I have never once during his career thought he would be a player I would like us to sign.
If , as some are suggesting , he is being signed as a replacement for Gana then I see that as a significant downgrade and it somewhat dents my optimism for the coming season.

 

[CRIMHEAD]

i don't want to imagine mate

john lennon can take his song back

Getting dominated by Watford and Leicester City in the middle of the pitch. A brotherhood of suck.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

It stinks of Steve Walsh.

Brands was rummaging through a drawer in the DoF office and found some old notes maybe?

 

[Paul E]

Depends how he`s used :

Regular starter > Underwhelming / can only mean Gana is off / ugh

Squad / back up > Good addition

Depends how he`s used :

Regular starter > Underwhelming / can only mean Gana is off / ugh

Squad / back up > Good addition

Just not sure at 90k a week and 30 years of age (in a few months) he represents value or an improvement.

 

[Kantareller]

A picture from the Not even arsed animals thread would fit here.

I'm OK with 8m, but I can only hope that this means the end of at least some excess midfielders we've got.

 

[Connor]

You'd think we'd have learned with Walcott.

I take this as a sign that we're either selling Gueye or hopefully we have found someone daft enough to take McCarthy or Schneiderlin off of us and he's coming in as cover.

I’m lost at this one J

 

[Azza]

I don't know how I feel about this.

 

[arminisgod]

£8m... defo at that price!