BleedClaretAndBlue Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 (edited) Lambert on contract:Lambert admits securing the future of Delph, who was a £6m signing from Leeds in 2009, is high on his list of priorities. "As soon as you are getting picked for England things escalate, so we will have to sit and see what he thinks himself," he said "This has been thrown at him. England will be first and foremost on his mind. "The way Fabian is his contract won't enter his head at the moment, he's playing well." Edited August 29, 2014 by BleedClaretAndBlue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincenzo Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Just what he deserves considering his consistent form. He should have been selected ages ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Lambert on contract: Lambert admits securing the future of Delph, who was a £6m signing from Leeds in 2009, is high on his list of priorities. "As soon as you are getting picked for England things escalate, so we will have to sit and see what he thinks himself," he said "This has been thrown at him. England will be first and foremost on his mind. "The way Fabian is his contract won't enter his head at the moment, he's playing well." I hope that we do manage to commit him to a new deal. My fear right now is that we have had a bid for Delph and Lambert is lining up Cleverly as a possible replacement, which I really do not want to happen. By the way, congrats to Fab on his England call-up. Should have happened at some point during last season with the form he showed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 (edited) Lambert on contract: Lambert admits securing the future of Delph, who was a £6m signing from Leeds in 2009, is high on his list of priorities. "As soon as you are getting picked for England things escalate, so we will have to sit and see what he thinks himself," he said "This has been thrown at him. England will be first and foremost on his mind. "The way Fabian is his contract won't enter his head at the moment, he's playing well." I hope that we do manage to commit him to a new deal. My fear right now is that we have had a bid for Delph and Lambert is lining up Cleverly as a possible replacement, which I really do not want to happen. By the way, congrats to Fab on his England call-up. Should have happened at some point during last season with the form he showed! Should have tied him down to a new deal last year. Edited August 29, 2014 by rodders0223 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam2003 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Saying "we should have tied him down" or " the board should be working on this" is nonsense. We have no idea what conversations are going on - whatever is said in public by Delph, Lambert or anyone else. I don't know how the bloke who sits across from me in work is getting on in his payrise discussion so to think we know anything about contract negotiations is naive at best. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Saying "we should have tied him down" or " the board should be working on this" is nonsense. We have no idea what conversations are going on - whatever is said in public by Delph, Lambert or anyone else. I don't know how the bloke who sits across from me in work is getting on in his payrise discussion so to think we know anything about contract negotiations is naive at best. We knew that grealish had not had anyone speak to him and those quotes from Lambert don't make it sound like we've done much about it. Also the way this clubs been run for the last few years leads me to doubt we're doing the right things well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam2003 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I won't labour the point as people will have their own views, but Grealish not getting an offer doesn't me a. people aren't talking to Delph. Not that I'm saying they are. I am sure you are right, but people moaning it hasn't happened with no idea of the conversations going on is silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 But Adam, Lambert's only just said "we will have to sit and see what he thinks", so that either means we haven't spoken to him about a contract, or we've said something like "Here's what we want to offer, we'll leave it with you and talk to you another time" (which seems a bit unprofessional). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nik986 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Give him a new 4 year deal, whatever it takes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 He'll sign. He's already said he wants to spend his whole career here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 He'll sign. He's already said he wants to spend his whole career here. That was before he got an international call up though I can already hear the tapping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfcwills10 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 He'll sign. He's already said he wants to spend his whole career here. Downing said he still wanted to stay even if we got relegated..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 But Adam, Lambert's only just said "we will have to sit and see what he thinks", so that either means we haven't spoken to him about a contract, or we've said something like "Here's what we want to offer, we'll leave it with you and talk to you another time" (which seems a bit unprofessional). Why is that unprofessional? We've not had a CEO for over a month, with all the ownership shit going on too, Lambert has been flying the flag alone. Is no wonder this stuff hadn't been sorted yet. Give Fox a little time, he doesn't start until Tuesday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 It's unprofessional because we should have started contract talks before we sacked our CEO and had Lambert doing everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam2003 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Rob, my only point is that what Paul Lambert tells us RE contractual negotiations might not be entirely true. Again, I'm not saying what he has said isn't 100% accurate, but he might be well into conversations with Delph's people but not want that to be public for whatever reason. Anyway - this is all irrelevant. I think most of us hope he signs a new deal now we have a new CEO in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Superb closing down this first half, very impressive. Whether or not we'd play this midfield against other teams I don't know, but a trio of Westwood sitting deep, Delph more box-to-box and Richardson making runs behind the Hull defence is working very well. So much more dynamic and fluid than we've been previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Very good today against Hull, hope he at least get's a chance against Norway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Did brilliantly hassling the Hull players but continues to make the wrong choice going forward. Should've played in Grealish when we were 3-on-2 with 10 mins or so to go; instead hit a very tame effort. For how to do it, see Westwood's pass through to Bent. If he improves this, though, he'll be some player. His energy levels and quick feet are fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swerbs Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Him and Westwood compliment each other very well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Did brilliantly hassling the Hull players but continues to make the wrong choice going forward. Should've played in Grealish when we were 3-on-2 with 10 mins or so to go; instead hit a very tame effort. For how to do it, see Westwood's pass through to Bent. If he improves this, though, he'll be some player. His energy levels and quick feet are fantastic. Yet in the Grealish thread people are complaining that in almost the exact same position Grealish should have shot rather than passed it to Delph. Harry Hindsight strikes again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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