Arsène Wenger, the manager of the Arsenal is high in his determinations of making the team qualify in the Champions League. He is really serious and has great plans and aspirations from the third round of the game to be held on the Monday night. The manager, however, is proud at the performance of his club for making it 14 seasons in succession to the Champions League group phase. He even is of this opinion that out of the Champions League clubs, it is the Arsenal and the Chelsea who are the real players and even though not today, but once in the future people will realize how tough it is to win it.

Wenger, in addition to being very serious and worried about making it to the Champions League, have plans of tackling it as well. It is according to his plans only that chances are there of granting Thierry Henry to play for some time at some stage. For him winning this competition is above all and also above winning the FA Cup. For him the FA Cup is not the ultimate goal but winning it would be just a bonus for the club. He says that the seriousness required for winning the Champions League is not required here as the FA Cup is played just for enjoyment and the Champions League is more like a compulsory competition which needs to be qualified at any cost. There is always a difference between playing in these two competitions.