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They've been trying to get him on loan since the summer.

Oh my love, you get more beautiful with every passing year

He did play that well and even better for the last three months of last season under Rafa. Obviously, he couldn't take that form into this season, but that has nothing to do with Silva.

Probably some guy who has a high rating on FIFA or FM

His birthday is the same day as the club's? Nice. Happy 40th birthday, Samuel!

They out-played us at the bridge just a few months ago and probably deserved to win if it weren't for the HUGE help we got from the ref. Forget history, we've struggle a lot this season when we've let teams dominate us physically in midfield and VIlla are probably the team that does that best in the league after Stoke. I honestly worry more about this game than Arsenal at home.

Rest players for Gala? I'm sorry, I don't get that at all. The league is the priority and by some distance and history as well as tactical analysis suggest that this will be a very tough game. Of course I want us to qualify in the CL, but in the league, we have 9 cup finals remaining.

Iva can't pass with his right foot, I don't even want to imagine him passing with his left...

The psychological blow from going out of the cup when they were the favorites and against a championship team will hit them much harder than one extra match.

Quadruple...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :LOL:

Josh McEachran's having a party...

I'd never want him there, anyway

Not sure if Asamoah or Roanldinho...

Didn't they make a 40m bid for him in the last day of the summer window but we rejected? They just didn't come back for him in Jan after the tough 3 months he had.

In terms of movement off the ball he is the best among our AMs. For me, that, along with his incredible work-rate and defensive abilities, more than makes up for his technical limitations on the ball.

I think he played a very important role tactically in Carlo's double winning season, and for that I'll always admire him and be grateful for him.

I think MVG can be a good rotating option with Ramires if he doesn't need too much time to return to his pre-injury level. Thankfully, our main objective is the league. I think Jose knew that when he opted for Nemanja and not someone else who isn't cup-tied.

Well take brace. He always causes trouble off the bench when we are leading. Excellent option to bring on when leading because he occupies two or three defenders by himself. But it's unfortunate that no matter how well he does in those sub appearances, it's unlikely that he's start the next match because he just doesn't have the dynamism that Jose wants from the striker role.

Tbf, he still supports Barca too, but I just think it says a lot about him that he still keeps an eye on Chelsea and supports us even though he's in Brasil now and not really involved in European football. He must have really enjoyed his time here.

I think it's 6 from 7, but not entirely sure.

He was my second choice, but the way Matic ran everything in midfield and set the tempo was just brilliant.

Now this is a match I'm scared of. I think we're much more likely to drop points to this lot than to Arsenal, imho.

I hope they will, but hence why it is their's to lose because we have to hope for them to drop more points than us. I completely agree that points in the bag is so much better than games in hand and that puts the pressure on City. But how does that make it our title to lose? We have no control over City's matches results. They can easily win all of their postponed matches and be back top, or they can drop points and we'd stay top. Therefore, it's theirs to lose, or at the very least, they have the advantage, not us.

How is the title ours? If both we and City win all of the remaining games, the title goes to Manchester. Mathematically, it's City's to lose.

I love that Belliti always supports us: https://twitter.com/julianobelletti/status/442384309954293760