ESPN Brasil have conducted a long interview with Manchester City star Gabriel Jesus.
The striker talked a lot about the ups and downs that the Premier League club are having the season, and the main things that he and the team must focus on to improve.
Now the best part of the chat was probably with Gabriel Jesus recalling some bits of his time at the club. One of them was about his move back in January 2017, when he claims that Fernandinho lied to convince him to make the transfer.
“First, let me talk about the first conversation I had with Fernandinho that was over the phone,” Gabriel Jesus told ESPN Brasil.
“When I was in that ‘will you come or not’, and he fooled me (laughs). He kind of tricked me. He said ‘bro, come on. it doesn’t rain here, it’s not as cold as they say. It’s top’.
“When I arrived, I said ‘Dinho, really, top club, top league, top city…’ Like, I come from São Paulo. São Paulo is very big, I’m from downtown São Paulo. Obviously it’s different, it’s not that big, I particularly like the city. So cold in January, when I saw it, so cold. I’d look at him every day and said: ‘Fernandinho, you said it wasn’t cold!”
“Jeez. There are some. I go from the first one in the Premier League. The first was actually against Tottenham here. But the first one that I started and that I scored the first goal was against West Ham in London.”
On his favourite goal, he was divided between two of them: “Well, I could say the one against Real because of the greatness that Real Madrid are. And playing against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu is always… it was the first time. And as a football lover I have always watched it and it’s very difficult. But I think I’m going to go for the one for the 100 points because it was a goal that I will never forget.”
On the most important advice from Pep Guardiola, Jesus said: “I think that as a matter of advice I think to take it easy. Everyone who knows me knows how happy I am, how I’m a boy who’s smiling all the time. And when things are not going well… I transmit a lot of happiness, joy in the environment. But when I’m not happy, I’m upset with me, I also transmit it. I think everyone understands and everyone comes to say ‘no, smile’. So I think this is advice”.
Then when asked about a defender who’s made his life like hell, Jesus asked if training sessions could be considered too, and picked a former teammate.
“Wow. There are so many. The guys all make me hell. I think I’m going to say Otamendi. Otamendi made it hell, hit me, but off the pitch, with me, he was always talking and playing with me. But on the pitch when it is Brazil and Argentina, we know how it is, always fighting, here in training always hitting. So I think I’ll go for him.”
And on his favourite title, he said: “All of them are important to me. But obviously the first Premier was remarkable for being the first. So I think the first one”.
