Morning all.

Mathieu Debuchy will be out for at least three months after undergoing surgery on his injured ankle. Dreadful news for Arsenal, dreadful news for the player.

He has had surgery and will be out for three months. A reasonable delay is three months.

It all went well, but it can be a week or two earlier or a week or two later, but it will be around three months.

It is a blow of course, how big it will be we will only know afterwards because it will be down to how well we replace him. We bought Calum Chambers for that.

Funny that, I thought Calum Chambers was signed to replace Thomas Vermaelen! Silly me, no-one was signed to replace our captain!!

Gutted for Debuchy though, he’s slotted in so well and wham, injured! We really don’t get much luck do we……

Still, now we will have two new signings around Christmas time, him and Olivier Giroud!

Some good news though re Theo Walcott and Serge Gnabry:

Theo is doing very well, and Gnabry is doing very well too. They should be available after the international break for full training.

Southampton in the Capital Cup tonight and we can expect a few changes tonight if the squad details given out by Arsene Wenger are true.

Hector Bellerin, Francis Coquelin, Isaac Hayden, Chuba Akpom and Semi Ajayi are all included, as is David Ospina.

Arsene Wenger has been talking about Akpom:

I’m happy that he has developed as a goalscorer, because when he was a younger kid, his problem was finishing. That has gone now. He’s a very good finisher and he has now to learn the tactical side of his game. Then he will be ready, because he is a huge talent.

And about Isaac Hayden:

He’s a ball winner, he’s a good central defender and a good central midfielder. Technically he was working on his game a bit, but now he is ready for that level.

We all saw Hector Bellerin make his Champions League debut and he far from let himself down and he was certainly nowhere near being any worse than most of our players that night. I think he’ll start.

We could finally get to see Joel Campbell too and to be honest, him playing has been long overdue and at least we’ll see him getting back to help out our right back!

Nacho Monreal and Yaya Sanogo remain injured so won’t feature. Sanogo injured, now there’s a shock!

But a bigger shock is Abou Diaby, he’s set to make his 2014/15 season debut tonight after playing a couple of matches for the under 21’s and have being a substitute at the weekend.

40 injuries Diaby has suffered during the eight years he’s been with us and now at 28 years old, Wenger hopes his future is a good one:

He’s a giant mentally. To do what he has done, with the severe injuries he had, he comes back every time, is dedicated and he deserves a lot of respect.

I’m a huge believer in his quality and I’m sad as well that he couldn’t show it more. If there is some justice, the future will be much better for him.

I hope the future will be much better for him too, I really do as to have suffered the way he has is rotten. How he’s still with us though I’ll never know but that’s a different issue. I hope for our sake and his, he stays fit and can offer the team something different in midfield.

At least he brings a little more height into the team as will Isaac Hayden..

Southampton manager Ronald Koeman has promised the 5000 travelling fans that he will field his strongest squad tonight:

Okay, it’s a difficult match, it’s the League Cup. But what I said before, in the League Cup against Millwall, we like to win everything.

If a player’s in good shape, he’s able to play. We don’t take risks, but normally we like to play our strongest squad for Tuesday.

I think it’s going to be a tough match if too many changes are made by Arsene Wenger but in this competition, that’s what he likes to do..

Fingers crossed whoever gets the nod, has a bit of fire and passion in their bellies…

COYRRG’s – let’s get through to the next round…..

Have a great day all……