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Gabriel Jesus said he decided to leave Manchester City when head coach Pep Guardiola made him cry after leaving him out of the starting lineup in a Champions League game.<\/p>\n

The Brazil international worked under Guardiola for five years at the Etihad Stadium before joining Arsenal last summer, a move he said made him feel \u201cfree.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to the \u201cDenilson Show\u201d podcast, Jesus said the turning point in his City career came during their home game against Paris Saint-Germain in November 2021 where he was named on the bench.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere was a Champions League game, PSG, at home, in which he put [Oleksandr] Zinchenko as a false 9. Crazy thing,\u201d Jesus said. \u201cThe day before, he didn\u2019t even use him [Zinchenko] in training, he had put me in as a striker\u2026 Zinchenko even joked with me: \u2018That day I felt bad for you.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo hours before the game, there\u2019s a team talk, the team eats, rests for 30 minutes and goes to the game. He told us the team\u2026 I didn\u2019t even eat. I went straight to the room, crying, I called my mother to talk: \u2018I want to leave.\u2019 I\u2019m going home, because he put him [Zinchenko] on, and he didn\u2019t put me on. He put a left-back there. I went crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesus replaced Zinchenko in the second half of the game and set up the equaliser before scoring a late winner to give City a 2-1 win.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t warm up,\u201d Jesus added. \u201cI 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\u2019t play.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lot of that with him [Guardiola], and it\u2019s not easy. But one [player] evolves. It is really hard. That\u2019s when I decided, I didn\u2019t want to stay anymore. And I decided to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesus joined City in January 2017 from Palmeiras and won 11 titles with the Manchester club.<\/p>\n

During his debut campaign at Arsenal, he scored 11 goals and set up seven more in 26 league appearances as they finished runners-up to City in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

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