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Never seen a problem with the Ba and Ben Arfa partnership, they're both class players and will make it work. The issue is more if the rest of the team is capable of playing to their strengths, and also maybe if that style of football will get us many more points than the more direct one.

Shola should never be sold, I'm waiting for his testimonial.

Before the injury, I'd say Guthrie's passing and range of passing was almost on par with Cabaye. Have to agree, but I would say that that's not exactly normal for wor Danny.

We need a gif of the Bruce Forsyth pose for the first.

Sign another one like Mike and we're laughing TBH.

West Ham fans don't seem to want him to go, so that's a good sign. £4m isn't expensive if he's young and has potential to improve, but I doubt we'll want to pay much more.

I hope you're right. Pardew would go up massively in my estimation if that's true. Despite the result yesterday I still feel this lad has a big part to play for us this season. I think this must be the case, genuinely can't believe that Pardew doesn't realise how good Ben Arfa is. Fair play against Man Utd, he had a clear plan that worked, but in general HBA must play a massive part in the team when Ba is away.

Can't see the crowd going for it en masse, but it's a good effort!

Aye, I think the Norwich game was a freebie as our weaknesses were obvious, easy to exploit and not easy to fix at all.

Need to think of a Ba replacement, someone who isn't in all my mates' teams as well. With Suarez banned, I'm thinking of gambling on Carroll finally scoring.

Reminding me why he was recently preferred to Taylor by almost everyone. Not that Taylor hasn't played brilliantly like, but Willo is such a no-nonsense player.

Aye, they outclassed the Man Utd midfield totally, which TBF is pretty average even on paper.

Unexpected clean sheet for Wor Tim, and an expected goal for Wor Demba.

Good game today. Didn't make any obvious mistakes I can remember, and gave their defence a torrid time in the air.

Our team is actually more suited to good football, which is why the long ball shit of recent games has been confusing. We mixed it up well tonight though, no problem with that. And also, you never know how much of the previous long ball football was tactical or down to the players running out of ideas, especially with a weakened back four.

Looks really good, with regular football he could go very far.

I think the signing of players with positive attitudes and good character is one of the most important changes in our recent history.

Ideal is bar -> over the line -> roof of the net bulge IMO.

He's adaptable to it for sure, think he can play the target man as well. He realised that Man Utd were pushing the midfield up tonight and dropped into the space brilliantly.

To think, you could buy infinite Demba Bas for the price of an Andy Carroll.

Can only assume Argentina have the T1000 and Superman as their two CBs. Class act tonight yet again, if he signs a new deal I'll count it as winning a trophy.

Mignolet is actually good.

Anderson looks gutted to be on the bench, Ben Arfa is nonchalent as ever.

Wish he would stop fucking up and giving the ball away so much, but generally very good tonight.