Had a decent game against China yesterday, after coming off the bench at half time. Good movement, very lively, forced the keeper into making 2 saves, nice flick back across goal (like he did for Ivanovic goal against Villa) but the Spanish player - don't remember who - hit the bar. Wouldn't surprise me to see him start against Italy.
Not sure, saw on the Daily Fail (article from 2 seasons ago) he was on 60k a week. They might not be 100% accurate, but it should be somewhere around that.
I have no doubt in my mind we would have finished 4th if not for the fact we were still in the CL. If we had been knocked out earlier, then we would've focused more on the league, and wouldn't rest players against Arsenal, Newcastle and Liverpool - which resulted in us picking up just 1 point from those 3 games.