Paul Lambert insisted Fabian Delph is irreplaceable at Aston Villa after the England star penned a new deal.

The midfielder has signed a four-and-a-half year contract, which was announced just before Villa's 2-1 FA Cup win over Bournemouth on Sunday.

Delph, who missed the game with an Achilles injury, was due to be out of contract at the end of the season and had been linked with Liverpool.

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A breakthrough in talks was made earlier this month and Lambert admitted the 25-year-old would have been...

Aston Villa midfielder Fabian Delph has put pen to paper on a new four-and-half-year deal at Villa Park, the Midlands club announced before their FA Cup tie against Bournemouth on Sunday.

England international Delph had been linked with a move to Liverpool, who will lose Steven Gerrard to LA Galaxy at the end of the season.

But Villa boss Paul Lambert had said he had been confident that the 25-year-old, who joined from Leeds in 2009, would stay where he was.

And after signing his new contract, Delph...

Ciaran Clark has defended Aston Villa's disciplinary record and insisted he will always stick up for his teammates.

The centre-back became Villa's fifth player to be sent off this season after a scuffle at Leicester -- which saw the club fined and warned by the FA for the third time this term.

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They were hit with a 60,000 pound fine after tempers flared following Matty James' reckless tackle on Jores Okore late in the Foxes' 1-0 win this month, with Clark dismissed for grappling with James.

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