Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has said Gabriel Jesus might still play this season.

The Brazilian striker has been out of action, since he broke a metatarsal in his right foot against Bournemouth on February 13.

Jesus has undergone an operation and Guardiola has now given an update on his recovery.

“The crutches are gone,” he told a news conference on Friday.

“He has started to walk, and hopefully he can come back to the pitches and start to run.

“Hopefully he can help us in the last games of the season and come back for us in the preseason.”

City travel to Arsenal this weekend and a win could see them establish a 10-point gap between them and the Gunners, heaping even more pressure on Arsener Wenger.

But Guardiola has praised Wenger and said he believes he can turn the club around, adding: “When he goes back to winning, the fans will be happy again I promise you — 100 percent.

“The Premier League is not easy to win, but I’m pretty sure the fans respect a lot what Arsene Wenger has done and is doing.

“People should understand how difficult football is today — all the teams are more prepared.

“When the bosses decide, or Arsene decides, to stay and keep going, he believes it is the best solution and the best for Arsenal.

“I’m not here to judge what they have to do and what is going to happen. The players judge what they see every day in the training sessions.

“Some of them are happy, some of them are unhappy, especially the players who don’t play. But for the fans it depends on results, not something else.”