^^ and for the same reasons praneet & pritam were hurt and upset with gautam! its goes both ways! even if we accept your view point gg was upset with pritam & puneet over them supporting upen in captaincy task! task happened on 30th oct, and in same episode gautam told in cameras that puneet did not fully support him, he didnt use his full strength when needed n so upen won task, whereas for puneet it was very easy for him to drag upen away from pole within few minutes! and same episode gg talked to puneet n expressed his unsatisfaction in both him n pritam not doing task properly!
then wkv happened on 1st nov, n salman raised issue of punz n pritam deliberately not using full strength, by telling gautam that he said that to cemeras! gg even answered him that its true they didn't use full strength!
so you see, gautam already knew all this before wkv, so he had plenty oppurtunity to resolve that issue ... waiting till wkv on 8/9th nov, to say he has no friends seemed more like he was holding onto that as grudge! n he even raised this friendship thing during hotel task this week on 11th nov epi! & it was this week itself that pritam & praneet said that gautam told salman he has no friends and they both said they were hurt & upset about that!
so jab gautam khud bol gaya he has no friends in wknd, then during task whats point of bringing up friendship n saying friends ne dhoka diya blah blah! jab kissi ko app friend mante hi nahi, then why keep talking about friendship!
salman also made it clear that gautam kyu bolta hai unhe koi support nahi karta, jab ki salman ne khudh shuru se dekha hai pritam & praneet unko support karte hue, n he told punz you also have been there from start!