Jose Mourinho criticized Manchester United defenders Chris Smalling and Luke Shaw a fortnight ago for refusing to play through the pain barrier at Swansea.
It subsequently emerged that Smalling was suffering from a broken toe that is likely to keep him out for a month.
But Mourinho, speaking at a press conference at United's Carrington training HQ on Friday ahead of Saturday's lunchtime clash with Arsenal , was angry at the way that story had emerged.
"Chris Smalling you cannot ask [about], because you have your sources, you trust your sources, you believe your sources tell you," said Mourinho.
"You did that for 15 days, so now you are not going to ask me to comment on your sources so on Chris Smalling I don't comment.
"You have your trustful relationship with your sources, you wrote, you spoke, you comment, you criticise, I don't say a word about Chris Smalling.
"You do the big headlines with your sources and now I'm not interested.
And on Luke Shaw, Mourinho said;
"Luke Shaw worked well in this period where we had a very small group but he worked really well, so he is ready to play. I don't have any problem with him.
''I don't say if he plays, but he is my player, a young player with potential.
"Like every young player he has things to learn, but he is a player of my confidence."
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