David Seaman names the two players at Arsenal who really fell out under Arsene Wenger

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Arsenal under Arsene Wenger are one of the best teams in English football history.

Indeed, Arsene Wenger led Arsenal to three league titles, an unbeaten season, numerous domestic cups and a Champions League final during his time at Arsenal.

However, it wasn’t all plain sailing for Wenger at Arsenal.

Indeed, managing a team full of talented players comes with its challenges, and not every changing room is going to be harmonious.

Tony Adams once intimidated Freddie Ljungberg before a north London derby, while in more modern times, Ben White and Oleksandr Zinchenko had a spat at one point.

Speaking on the Seaman Says Podcast, David Seaman has been discussing some of the dynamics at Arsenal, and he says that there were two players under Wenger who really didn’t like one another.

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Jens Lehmann didn’t like Manuel Almunia

Seaman spoke about Jens Lehmann’s relationship with Manuel Almunia.

While David Raya and Aaron Ramsdale got on at Arsenal, Lehmann and Almunia really didn’t as they apparently wouldn’t even speak to each other at Arsenal.

“I remember, I think it was Jens Lehmann and Manuel Almunia. They didn’t like each other, they didn’t speak. They wouldn’t warm each other up in the warm ups so the coach had to go and warm up with them,” Seaman said.

What Lehmann and Almunia said about each other

Seaman says that Lehmann and Almunia didn’t get on, and it would appear as though there was some significant bad blood here.

Indeed, in an interview with The Guardian in 2008, Almunia claimed that Lehmann hates him.

I like to treat everyone with respect and I see everyone as equals. I treat people the way I would like to be treated myself. To have someone here who hates me is just amazing. I know he hates me,” Almunia said.

“Every morning I wake up, I know it is going to be the same. I’ve had to put up with it every day since he was out of the team and even before then. I wake up and I know what it is going to be like. But I don’t care about him any more. He can say what he likes. I come into training and I work with Lukasz Fabianski and Vito Mannone. They are better goalkeepers than him anyway.”

Lehmann seemingly had issues with Almunia behind-the scenes, but, in public, Lehmann was always very civil, responding to Almunia’s comments later in that season, via The Guardian.

“I do not hate anybody in the world,” said Lehmann. “I saw Almunia’s comments and they made me laugh more than anything else. I was just disappointed that I could not have prevented the defeat at Manchester United.”

There have been some infamous in-house feuds at Arsenal such as Mikel Arteta and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s falling out a few years ago, but Almunia and Lehmann seemingly had a very difficult relationship during their time in north London.