Hughes has spent £94m so far on what the manager has described as an "exceptional" summer but not everything has gone City's way. Leeds United revealed today that English football's biggest spenders had tried to sign Fabian Delph before Aston Villa had a £6m bid accepted on Monday.
City lodged an offer of the same amount on Saturday but, according to the Leeds chairman, Ken Bates, the club's English-based hierarchy then had to get ratification from their owners in Abu Dhabi and asked for the talks to be shelved for a week.
"We had accepted an offer from Manchester City on Saturday which they had to go back with to the owner in the Gulf," Bates said. "Then apparently they needed a week to think about it which surprised us, considering the size of the deal.
So let me get this straight, Manchester City can drop millions on a list of players, some good pickups, some questionable, but they need a week to get a relative pittance approved for a top prospect such as Fabian Delph? As a Villa fan I'm relieved, we will gladly take Delph. It's just a bit odd that they'd have to go through such a process to approve the Delph purchase.
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