Former Manchester City striker Gabriel Jesus has admitted he was reduced to tears from a decision made by manager Pep Guardiola during his time at the Etihad Stadium.

“There was a game in which he (Pep Guardiola) put Zinchenko on as a false-nine,” Jesus told Denilson Show. “Champions League, PSG, at home. Crazy thing. The day before, he didn’t even put him (Oleksandr Zinchenko) there in training, he put me in as a striker. Then the other day, two hours before the game… Zinchenko even joked, ‘That day, I felt bad for you’.

“Two hours before the game, there’s a lecture (team-talk), the team eats, rests for 30 minutes and goes to the game. He (Pep Guardiola) gave the team… I didn’t even eat. I went straight to a room, crying. I called my mother to talk, ‘I want to leave’. I’m going home, because he put him on and didn’t put me on. I just had to play. He put a left-back there. I went crazy.”

Jesus continued: “The game turned (into half-time at) 0-0. Within five minutes (of the second-half), Mbappé scored, 1-0. He (Pep Guardiola) called me.

“I gave an assist and scored, we turned it to 2-1. In the other game, I thought I was going to play. I didn’t play. There was a lot of that with him, and it’s not easy. But the guy (the player) evolves. It is really hard.

“That’s where I decided, I already had it that I didn’t want to stay (at Manchester City) anymore. And I decided to leave.”