'We want to keep our Highbury strength because we know it is vital for us to be successful at the end of the season,' added the Arsenal manager.\n\n
Patrick Vieira, Ray Parlour, Lauren and Martin Keown are all unavailable to the manager for a game against Birmingham City.
Arsenal, as a club, have been charged with misconduct.
Middlesbrough are through to the League Cup final with a tense 2-1 victory in their semi-final, second leg match.
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According to BBC, the manager's future will be decided at season end 'This is 20 years of work here. He's been magnificent for the club. This is a massive low point for him. This brings forward the change that looks likely at the end of the season'
More clubs should follow the Ajax Amsterdam model of promoting former players to executive roles, according to the Dutch side's assistant manager Dennis Bergkamp.
'Every player needs that moment, that turning point ... to settle and hopefully now Arsenal can see what they paid for... 72 million pounds was seeming expensive until tonight'
Arsene Wenger said on Friday that he will definitely still be a manager next season, whether at Arsenal or 'somewhere else'.
Arsene Wenger often says he has no time to look back because he is so focused on the future but he spent a minute reminiscing on Friday on the 10th anniversary of the defeat to Manchester United that ended Arsenal's famous 49-match unbeaten run.
'You cannot sack all the players so sack the manager -- whether right or wrong'
Arsenal will have to produce the biggest second leg comeback in a Champions League knockout tie to avoid a seventh successive exit at the last 16 stage when they host Bayern Munich on Tuesday.