Let's face it, if we signed him after some 'sexy' signings, nobody would have an issue.
As said, exactly the same reaction to Gareth Barry and Idrissa Gueye. That position of the pitch isn't necessarily glamorous but we need depth. Delph is an excellent 'water carrier' - a consistent player who makes teams tick.
Tom Davies hasn't developed to be the player he threatened to be and James McCarthy is somehow still at the club - he's a first team option replacement for those two and without a doubt a massive step up on them in quality.
Spot on. People are wetting the bed because we haven’t shipped out any CM dross YET or that we haven’t made any big signings other than Gomes YET.
If this deal is easier to do than any of those - and there is every suggestion this is quite a straightforward deal to do - then it’ll be done first and we’ll deal with the other stuff later.
As ten million people seem to have said already, we can only judge the effectiveness of our business in this window once it’s shut.