Sheva.

Mata, when he's at his best, he is no doubt our best player. Plus 10 goals and 15 assists in all competitions, could have had more goals too if he didn't love hitting the post so much

Happy birthday!

1-0 win at home against Blue Bulls Now have to play them away next.

He scores when he wants

You can be positive without making a thread about it

Malouda thread also.

Honestly didn't see Grant when i read that but anyway yeah Grant isn't so bad in the market.

Ba was good at West ham, so i don't see how signing him has anything to do with Pardew's eye for talent. Many other mid-table sides wanted him too.

Anyone that can plot such a thing against his own relative, should never be let out.

16 years is too small a punishment.

First Moyes, now Pardew? lol.

Not much wrong with the OP's post imo, he's just saying if Barca win we should not even try to beat Benfica But i do agree about not looking ahead and focusing on just benfica, let's hope the players aren't!

Blue.

Yep, it says 'you cannot reply to this topic' right at the top.

I really thought him going on loan to Swansea would be awesome, and he'd come back better and ready to challenge for a starting 11 spot. Boy was i wrong.

Being at home has nothing to do with it imo, we need to keep them from scoring, do that and we're in the semi's. Just play a normal cautious game, and we will inevitably find spaces when they come forward in search of a goal.

Well said Martin Samuel - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2123670/Martin-Samuel-If-Torres-scored-mattered.html

We have a 1 goal lead, we don't need to do any attacking Just try to contain them, and hit on the counter like communicate said, or through set pieces.

Mikel should definitely stay, couldn't care less whether the rest stay or leave tbh.

Totally agree with this. RDM says it every time "i try to talk to all my players, and give them confidence"

Mikel has been better since AVB left too

Hmm it hasn't affected loading for me.

Because we have no better option to him in the middle. He played very well though, ran the game till he came off

I agree, 45m is too much to turn down for any player! But i doubt they're willing to offer that much, probably just bs from the media.

In terms of overall play, he wasn't as good as he has been recently imo. But i'm not complaining, he got himself into good positions to score, scored a very good goal to seal the win, and also had a brilliant assist when Villa had all the momentum.