ended his four-year spell<\/a> with the Gunners in September and has since made it clear he felt disappointed with the way his exit was handled.<\/p>\nRecommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n
The Brazilian striker said in an interview this week that \u201cout of nowhere they put me to train apart from the group,\u201d adding that \u201cnobody told me nothing\u201d before he signed for Barcelona.<\/p>\n
Responding to Jesus\u2019s criticism, Arteta insisted he had spoken to the former Manchester City star about the transfer and had parted on good terms.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery surprised, to be fair. Especially because with Gabi (Jesus) I had an individual talk in the dressing room,\u201d he told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what words were said; it\u2019s fine. The words that we used were all about gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arteta also came under fire from former Arsenal striker Ian Wright, who recently said he was \u201cuncomfortable\u201d with what he perceived to be a lack of dialogue between the club and Gabriel Martinelli, who moved to Saudi Pro League side Al Hilal on September 3.<\/p>\n
But Arteta used the presence of Leandro Trossard, who was sold to Besiktas in July, to watch Arsenal\u2019s victory over Chelsea last weekend as an example of the club\u2019s bond with their former players.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know, it\u2019s OK. Sometimes I understand that when you have to deliver bad news, or news that people don\u2019t expect, somebody has to be the bad cop. If I have to be, I have to be and I understand,\u201d he said, before the Premier League champions\u2019 trip to Sunderland on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is important is normally what happens three months or six months later. When Trossard comes, he\u2019s in the dressing room with all of us, the atmosphere and the relationship you have.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank God so far that with all the players that left, at some point the relationship has been really good. I hope this is the same case.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriel Jesus claims he was forced to train alone before Barcelona move, but Arsenal \u2018surprised\u2019 by criticism. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,2057,596,2020,588,85,1055,6075],"class_list":["post-888196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}