"When I first joined the first-team squad the banter was brilliant but the English boys have gone," he says. "The cliques aren't rumours, it's a fact. The French boys sit together, the Germans and Freddie Ljungberg eat together. It used to be a sell-out on the English table but no-one wants a ticket. There are spare seats everywhere."

I'm not sure what the last sentence means, except that there aren't many English players at the club. If that's a problem for Stack then we'll be well rid of him. If he's good enough and has the right attitude then he could make it at Arsenal. He's always looked to have great potential as a goalkeeper, so this outburst suggests that it's the attitude that he's lacking.

It's a tough task he's taken on, undermining the Arsenal dressing room. If there's one thing that epitomised our success in the Wenger era it's teamwork and togetherness.

Arsene Wenger has responded angrily, making it clear than while Stack may still be officially on our books, Le Boss no longer sees him as an Arsenal player.

"I think it's a very unfair and unjustified comment by someone who hasn't been part of the first team squad at Arsenal for 24 months. He's not one of my players, he's left the club. I don't give any credit to these comments. I don't know what people understand by cliques, but if cliques are people who sit together at the same table then we have had cliques at Arsenal for nine years."

"You would find that at every other club as well. You would find it at Chelsea. But I think the spirit in this squad is as strong, if not stronger, as it's been than in any other season."

"I feel you can come from different countries and share the same values, but come from the same country and not share the same values. At Arsenal, we all share the same values."

Basically, it seems like Stack was a peripheral figure at Arsenal and didn't like it. No Arsenal fans should lose any sleep over any sour grapes he sends back our way as a result. I am curious though, as to who the "Germans" (plural) are. And, before Lehmann arrived, did Freddie sit on his own?