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Either way it would be disappointing if Pardew feels he cannot bench either, it's pretty clear that Marv will bring more to a game at the moment but as he isn't a big figure in the side he'll always be the one to make way.

Yeah Cisse is the player I would 'drop'. I would think of rotating a front 3 between Marv, Ba, Cisse & Ben Arfa with Ben Arfa being ever present and Ba altering between LW & ST depending on who and how we're playing. Cabaye just behind.

"Cool" If that wasn't a marketing disaster then there is something wrong with the 21st century.

That's what I thought Colo was on, I doubt Xisco will be on £50k a week though? I cannot see why we'd agree to that as he was nothing more than a promosing young striker when we signed him, Coloccini was rated as one of the best defenders in Spain.

He was young when we signed him and wasn't a first teamer at Depor so he'll not be on Colo's wages, the same as he wouldn't have been on Colo's wages when they were both at Deportivo. We were dafter with our money back then but not THAT daft. Probably about £15k (I just made that figure up).

I was sort of joking, like.

Sort of starting to wonder why we let Lovenkrands go now. Strange, strange feeling.

Even when injured you'll likely still be working (probably harder than the rest of the squad) on getting back to full fitness once it's possible. His basic wage will still be quite high I would imagine, which is fair enough.

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I don't think we were really, it's not our fault that Liverpool decided to give him a lacerative contract. We'd have offered to pay the wages that we though he was worth.

Fucking hell, Encarta was class.

What the...

Look North: "A 1-1 draw in a match that Newcastle dominated" errr...

I think people are being unfair on Villa like, not just here but on Facebook and such too, you'd think they were a fucking League 2 team or something the way people are going on. They were turgid last year and have started the season (results wise) pretty poorly, but it's a bit early to start labeling them as the Premiership's shittest team.

It may not, but this could have defenders even more shit scared in future games when they come up against him, it's hard enough trying to contain him when he's "so one footed".

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Ba who's been better than Cisse? That Ba?

Dinho LAD

Barton used to be really creative from set pieces tbf to him. (Nolan & Carroll too, obvs)

We may as well just play them short if they aren't within shooting distance/angle.

Ba OR Cisse up front next time please

Ben Arfa played for that corner

The kid is insanely good like

If he's going back to the bench when Tiote comes back then we may as well just keep him there.