Desperate clubs try to hijack Villa’s Fabian Delph deal
Leeds United have confirmed that a fee has been agreed with Aston Villa for 19 year-old midfielder Fabian Delph.
The club took the unusual step of saying on the website that they wanted to record their “appreciation for the honourable manner in which Aston Villa have conducted their interest in the player”.
Leeds United then confirmed that they have turned down renewed bids from other Premiership clubs, desperate to hijack the deal, in the short space of time since they agreed the terms with Villa.
In a pointed remark, the official statement on the Leeds United website, continued, “Having given Villa our commitment to transfer the player (subject to medical), we had no intention of going back on that”.
That bears all the hallmarks of Ken Bates thumbing his nose at Manchester City and Everton who have been stalling over a price for Delph for weeks. Now Ken Bates is saying, “offer what you like, you can’t have him”, and no one enjoys making the most of having the upper hand more than Ken Bates!
I don’t see that Everton do anything underhanded.
This is a dig at Spuds and Citeh, imo.
Thanks to leeds for being a class act,Big english club that should be in the prem.
This is a sad day for spurs we could have maid this lad into a great player all aston villa will do is ruin him like aggy has turned crap under the librarian oneil young has also gone backwards .He will now be sold to spurs in a incredible deal of chimbonda and 5 million haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Spurs fans are idiots aren’t they? Good on Leeds for not being mucked about, Delph will be playing against you in a few years time when you’re back in the top flight where you belong.