Arsenal are said to be internally worried that an interview with technical director Edu could have complicated their summer transfer plans.
The Brazilian recently spoke candidly about the Gunners' inability to offload fringe players, admitting that he thought it was an "investment" to pay off high-earning veterans at the club to leave, with the club cancelling the contracts of the likes of Mesut Ozil, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Shkodran Mustafi over the last couple of years.
"If you imagine, 'Oh, no problem: this season we’re going to expose the player a little bit more and then we sell them' - no, be realistic," he said last month. "You don’t want to sell the player. Try to avoid one more year with the problem inside, in the dressing room, expensive, not performing.
