By Josh O’Brien Arsenal ace Gabriel Magalhaes has opened up on discussions with Mikel Arteta at the start of the season after being dropped. The Brazilian defender has been a mainstay at the heart of the Arsenal defence since joining from Lille in 2020. But plenty of eyebrows were raised when Gabriel was omitted from the starting line-up for the first three games of the current campaign. At the time, speculation suggested Gabriel’s had had been turned by interest from a big-money move to the Saudi Pro League outfits, while others claimed Arteta was merely trying something different with his ba…