DEPARTING goalkeeper Jens Lehmann fired a parting shot at manager Arsene Wenger, criticising the Frenchman's policy on rearing youngsters.

Lehmann, 38, is expected to leave the Emirates this summer after being frustrated by the lack of first-team opportunities this season, and he has hit out at Wenger's persistence with young players.

He told the Daily Star: "Something is wrong. The way we tried to do it with just young players playing beautiful football didn't work."

Lehmann also accused the club's hierarchy of affording Wenger too much lee-way.

He said: "It's not a club to say 'you are a great manager here, you can do anything you want and everything will be OK'."