Gabriel insists just Arsenal ‘coaching staff’ were involved in Auba bust-up

Arsenal defender Gabriel Magalhaes insists players weren’t involved in a rift between Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and the coaching staff.

Aubameyang left the Emirates Stadium last month after becoming the latest player to agree a contract termination with the club, allowing him to sign for Barcelona on a free transfer.

The 32-year-old had not played for Arsenal since December after he was dropped and stripped of the club captaincy by Mikel Arteta as a disciplinary measure after returning late from an agreed break.

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Asked at his unveiling as a Barcelona player what had happened in north London, Aubameyang replied: “I think it was a problem just with him (Arteta).

“I can’t really tell you much. He wasn’t happy and that was it. I can’t say anything else because that’s what happened. I wasn’t very happy and I’m better this way.”

Arteta, though, countered those claims as he addressed the media on the eve of Arsenal’s Premier League trip to Wolves earlier this month.

“You ask the question directly to me, so I respond. I am extremely grateful for what Auba has done at the club, for his contribution since I have been here and the way I see myself in that relationship is the solution, not the problem,” he said.

“What I am saying is that I’ve been this solution, 100 per cent, I can look in the eye of anybody.

“I do lot of things wrong, for sure. But the intention all the time is the best – and not for me, it is for the club and for the team.”

And now Arsenal centre-back Gabriel insists that every Gunners player wanted to keep Aubameyang at the club and that none of them were involved in his issues at the club.

“Aubameyang is in my heart, we all wanted him at