Gaurdiola Made Me Cry – Gabriel Jesus Explains Why He Left Man City2 min read

Before joining Arsenal last summer, the Brazil international worked under Guardiola at the Etihad Stadium for five years playing as a key striker while winning a number of trophies.

Following his move to the Gunners, Jesus made 17 goal contributions in the Premier League despite suffering injuries along the line marking a successful debut season under Mikel Arteta.

However, his latest revelation means he did not leave Manchester City on a good note but had to flee for freedom.

According to him, it all began when Guardiola left him out of the starting eleven in a crucial Champions League match.

“There was a Champions League game, PSG, at home, in which he put [Oleksandr] Zinchenko as a false 9. Crazy thing,” Jesus said. “The day before, he didn’t even use him [Zinchenko] in training, he had put me in as a striker… Zinchenko even joked with me: ‘That day I felt bad for you,” he said on the Denilson show” podcast

“Two hours before the game, there’s a team talk, the team eats, rests for 30 minutes, and goes to the game. He told us the team… I didn’t even eat. I went straight to the room, crying, I called my mother to talk: ‘I want to leave.’ I’m going home, because he put him [Zinchenko] on, and he didn’t put me on. He put a left-back there. I went crazy.”

In the second half, Jesus came on to replace Zinchenko and set up the equaliser before scoring a late goal to give City a 2-1 victory.

“I didn’t warm up,” Jesus added. “I felt bad. Five minutes after [Kylian] Mbappe scored the goal for 1-0, he [Guardiola] called me. I gave an assist and scored; we turned it around 2-1. In the next [Champions League] game [a 2-1 win at RB Leipzig], I thought I was going to play, and I didn’t play.

“There was a lot of that with him [Guardiola], and it’s not easy. But one [player] evolves. It is really hard. That’s when I decided, I didn’t want to stay anymore. And I decided to leave.”

Meanwhile, both Jesus and Zinchenko are active Arsenal players and are expected to play more together in London.