Well well well…AC Milan. What a draw. I’m a little bit lost for words from the excitement! It’s a tricky tie, no doubt, but we will have chance. A big chance actually, we have a fairly decent record against Italian teams over the last few years; we lost to Milan in 1995 but we were a completely different side then, obviously. I said before the draw that I really want to go to the away leg of whoever we get in the knockout stages. Plane ticket prices are going up and up as I type so I better get on with this blog. Here’s the rest of the draw:

Lucky fucking Chelsea…These games aren’t for another two months so we’ll look forward to those in the new year.

In the news we’ve got Patrick Vieira saying that this team is better than the one he was a part of. Here’s what he said:

“Arsene has done some great things and the players are responding to him at the moment. When I left, Fabregas had the chance to be selected. And he has since blossomed. Titi has left and Adebayor has never scored so many goals. Van Persie also feels he is like a leader now. In my time, we had a great team. We played well and were physically strong. But this current team plays better football than in our day. Whether that means they are going to win something is another story. But whatever happens, Arsenal are one of the two or three teams in Europe who play the best football.”

Cheers Paddy. He’s right, a lot has changed since his departure but we’ve changed and youngsters have been given their chance and it’s paid off. We could’ve drawn Inter in the Champions league but Vieira’s side drew Liverpool and I bet Patrick cant wait for that.

Carlos Vela says he cant wait to come play at Arsenal. We bought him a few years ago but wasn’t eligible to work in England so has been on loan but next season we’ll finally have him in our squad. He’s currently on loan with Osasuna and he’s doing really well in La Liga. I saw some highlights from when he played Real Madrid and he looked very skilful and dangerous. He’s a striker naturally but he played a lot of that game out on the left wing and I suspect that what Wenger might do with him.

Another one of our players on loan, Johann Djourou will return to Arsenal next month. We’ll be very short for centre backs next month with the African Nations cup so he was always going to come back or Arsene would have to bring some one else in, he may still get the chequebook out but getting Johann back is good for us. Senderos has been a bit shaky so he’ll be looking to make his way to the first team.

I’ll have a preview of the Tottenham game up tonight. Talk to ya later.