It now seems to be a pretty safe bet that the reason these 2 were given new contracts was because Mancini rates them, after all, the board wouldn't have allowed hughes to make the decisions as they knew he was going.
So, I'm hoping that we will see a lot more of these 2 now. Zabaleta is by far the best Right-Back at the club IMO and Weiss should be used more often as a back-up to SWP.