Fabian Delph hailed for committing to Aston Villa amid Man City rumours [Best Tweets]

Tim Sherwood appears to have secured another key victory in this summer’s transfer window.

Captain Fabian Delph has confirmed he will stay at the club, despite rumours linking the England midfielder with Manchester City.

With Delph front and centre in their kit releases last week, it would certainly be a big turn-around if Manchester City were to even get close to the former Leeds man.

Delph has been hailed on social media, particularly on Twitter where the Aston Villa midfielder has been trending.

In today’s money-dominated global game this is a rare blow for Manchester City in the transfer market and comes at a time when Aston Villa also needed a boost.

If Sherwood can keep hold of Ron Vlaar (recently linked with Southampton on a free) and Christian Benteke (the perennial Liverpool target) Aston Villa could be in decent shape going into the new campaign.

Some of the pictures and memes below sum up the online love for Delph now…

Despite being strongly linked with Man City, Fabian Delph has said he's staying with Aston Villa. #AVFC pic.twitter.com/F3UoqGRhmH — Paddy Power (@paddypower) July 11, 2015

Live scenes at Villa Park as Fabian Delph rejects a move to Manchester City pic.twitter.com/2RXghiE0jA — JH (@Dassed) July 11, 2015

#ThatAwkwardMoment When you can't even attract Fabian Delph to your club. pic.twitter.com/16xV0xIIQH — Football Jokes (@LaughingFooty) July 11, 2015

Fabian Delph dodged a bullet really. Smart lad. — Temil0luwa (@Temphiz) July 11, 2015

Fabian Delph had a word wiv Scott Sinclair & Micah Richards. He made the right decision 2 stay imo, wud have jus made up the homegrown quota — Supreme Jide (@itsmejaykay) July 11, 2015

Fabian Delph has a message for Aston Villa fans…https://t.co/T7EyF5Sj9P — Uber Football Facts (@UberFootbalI) July 11, 2015

Fabian Delph is going to be furious when he visits the #AVFC website. — Chris Nee (@ChrisNeeFC) July 11, 2015

Fabian Delph: Aston Villa won 29.6% of their PL matches this season with Delph starting compared to 18.2% without him #avfc — WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) July 11, 2015

He would of been out of his DELPH — Anthony Mahoney (@AnthonyMahoney3) July 11, 2015

The best U-turn since Stevie G? Better than that, Delph's just bettered Cruyff! #utv pic.twitter.com/YyC9H2nRtY — Jonny Gould (@jonnygould) July 11, 2015