Gabriel Jesus is loving life in the Premier League right now.
Our Brazilian forward scooped up the December Player of the Month award after netting five times in seven games in all competitions.
Eight years ago, in January 2017, he moved to England for the first time to join Manchester City at the age of 19.
“It has been a long time since I came to the Premier League,” he said on Friday. “I came here, not as a kid, but very young. Now I’m 27, a father, a husband, so everything changed.
“I think I’ve grown a lot as a man, and then as a professional, as a player, so I’m very happy to join this country, apart from the cold weather sometimes!”
But he’s always hungry for even more here at Arsenal.
“You can see the motivation because the feeling to win a trophy like the Premier League, everyone knows how tough it is,” he said.
“When you’ve already won it, you just think I want it again, again and again.
“Arsenal did amazing in the past and we want to come back, so we as players, we want to go there and pay back what they have done and to fight for the fans as well.”
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Asked about his role in our team, Gabby said he’s happy to play anywhere across the frontline and has the skillset required to slot in wherever Mikel Arteta puts him.
“I want to be on the pitch,” he said. “Sometimes I I start I’m playing more as a nine and understand that is my position in the middle, down the middle, but I understand as well, I can drop in the right, in the left, drop central and be in the box. So my focus now is be in the box.
“But I also can go wider or drop even more.
“I think the wingers we have love to move as well, so that helps me a lot and helps them a lot that I want to as well.”