"How Pep Guardiola forced me leave Man City" - Gabriel Jesus

Arsenal star Gabriel Jesus has revealed what made him leave Manchester City last year. 

The 25-year-old revealed that he left City after Pep Guardiola dropped him on the bench for Oleksandr Zinchenko, a defender who played as "false 9"

Gabriel Jesus joins Arsenal for the 2022/23 season after spending six seasons with Manchester City. 

During last season's Premier League championship chase, the striker faced off against his previous squad.

The Brazilian said that there was a turning moment during his tenure under Guardiola when he contemplated quitting Etihad Stadium during an appearance for the Denilson Show podcast.

Gabriel Jesus who joined Arsenal for 45m pounds said that Guardiola bench him in their Champions League match against PSG. 

The Brazilian said that the manager started a Zinchenko who didn't train in the attack against PSG 

"There was a Champions League game, PSG, at home in which he [Guardiola] put Zinchenko as a false 9. Crazy thing. The day before, he didn't even use him in training, he had put me in as a striker. Zinchenko even joked with me: 'That day I felt bad or you'.

Jesus revealed that he felt so bad that he didn't eat but went straight into his room to cry and placed a car to his mother, telling her that he wants to leave City. 

Jesus added, "Two hours before the game, there's a team talk, the team eats, rests for 30 minutes and goes to the game... 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 [Zinchenko] on. He put a left-back there. I went crazy," he explained.

"I didn't warm up. I felt bad. Five minutes after Mbappe scored the goal for 1-0, he 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.

He went on to add: "There was a lot of that with him [Guardiola], and it's not easy. But one [player] evolves. It's really hard. That's when I decided, I didn't want to stay anymore. And I decided to leave."