Now, the club paid over £3 million for the player and are not too chuffed by his injuries and attitude problems. However, if they want any kind of compensation, they can't come out and say "Agustin is a big moaning cry baby with a huge ego and massive personality problems." No, they have to be a little more tactful and show that they really wanted the player to do well.
So, two days after Delgado's walk out, chairman Rupert Lowe said: "Delgado has gone back to Ecuador to recuperate and it is unlikely he will play again this season."
This rates right up there with the club's calm comments when Delgado went AWOL at the start of the season, while they were really spitting blood.
There's no doubt that the club want him to be successful. Manager Gordon Strachan wouldn't mind having an international striker at his disposal either. Delgado's childish and unprofessional approach means that this simply isn't going to happen.
Delgado has said that all he wants to do is get fit and play well. It would seem that while he's getting fit, his head is being filled with nonsense by his relatives and his FA. His biggest, and perhaps only, problem would seem that he's easily led. Delgado is hardly some star player. That's what he came over to try and prove. All he's proven, regardless of intentions, is that he's one big waste of time. That's what he'll be remembered as, not just by us but by any other club looking at the situation in Europe.
On the plus side, Saints will hopefully have some kind of compensation due to them for Delgado's actions. Perhaps some Ecuadorian club will come in for him. Delgado is still a Saints player so he can't play elsewhere.
With a bit of luck, we've also stopped paying his wages. I'd be gutted if he gets to swan off back home every time he feels miffed on full pay, instead of being in training every day working to get fit.
The whole thing relfects badly on Rupert Lowe. Our chairman has hardly put a foot wrong since his reverse takeover of the club. But it would seems he got dazzled by big pound signs and jumped into the transfer without fully thinking it through.
I'd be more than happy if we could offload Delgado quietly, get some compensation and move on.