A former Manchester City star has revealed he decided to leave the Citizens after manager Pep Guardiola made him cry.
Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus spent four-and-a-half seasons with the Manchester outfit, where he won four Premier League titles and scored 95 goals in 236 appearances.
However, the Selecao star has revealed Guardiola's decision to start Oleksandr Zinchenko over him as a striker against Paris Saint-Germain was the turning point for him.
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"There was a Champions League game, PSG, at home, in which he put [Oleksandr] Zinchenko as a false 9. Crazy thing," Jesus said on the Denilson Show podcast.
"The day before, he didn't even use [Zinchenko] in training, he had put me in as a striker. ... Zinchenko even joked with me: 'that day I felt bad for you.'
"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 [Zinchenko] on, and he didn't put me on. He put a left-back there. I went crazy."
"I didn't warm up. I felt bad. Five minutes after [Kylian] Mbappe scored the goal for 1-0, [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."
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