Arsenal have completed a £45 million deal to sign Brazil international Gabriel Jesus from Manchester City.
The 25-year-old striker arrives at Emirates Stadium after a very fruitful four and a half year spell under Pep Guardiola.
Signed from Palmeiras for £27 million (plus add-ons) in January 2017, Jesus scored 95 goals and made 46 assists in 236 appearances for City. Along the way, he won four Premier League titles, three EFL Cups, an FA Cup and two Community Shields.
While he never quite lived up to his billing as Sergio Aguero’s heir, Jesus proved a reliable, hard-working and popular squad player at the Etihad.
Out of contract next year, he moves to Arsenal in the hope of getting more game time ahead of the World Cup, something that couldn’t be guaranteed at City after the Blues signed two new strikers in Erling Haaland and Julián Álvarez.
To date, Jesus has been capped 56 times by his country scoring 19 goals.
Jesus, who will wear the recently vacated number 9 shirt, is Arsenal’s fourth signing of the summer after the arrival of Marquinhos, Fabio Vieira and Matt Turner.
Welcome Jesus !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please save Arsenal.
Hope so, we don’t want to see Jesus fail and get crucified by the fans.
I’m excited. My bet is he won’t fail but will be crucified by some regardless.
Even if some fans crucify him, I’m confident he’ll rise again
it’s what he does….
Just watch out for those water bottles. Can’t have the team running around pissed.
This feels like a reddit thread <3
Welcome onboard! I am sure you will love it here! Good luck mate!
“Reliable, hard-working and popular.”
Andrew, stop, you’ll get me too excited! He sounds like the Brazilian Ben Mee.
Welcome Jesus! Finally the Gabriel tesseract is complete
Amen.
Meh.
Really? A meh? Some people can’t be satisfied.
In the words of the ex-leper in The Life of Brian, “That’s just what Jesus said, sir.”
A total meh. Not the player we need. Unless you love strikers that don’t score.
What’s the matter mate?
Been proved wrong yet again?
😂
How so gramps? We’ve signed a striker that can’t score. Exactly what we don’t need. Willian all over again. Just wait.
He must be really fuckin’ lucky then, ’cause he managed to get the ball in the back of the net 95 times for City. Pretty good for someone who can’t score.
300 starts more or less…goals/game ratio mean anything? 8 in 28 starts last year, 50% in one game…I could go on…
You could go on making up numbers? Please spare us and don’t. Says quite clearly in the article 236 appearances. So I guess we have different definitions of what “more or less 300” means, but that’s also appearances, not starts. He came off the bench in 85 of those 236.
no way where’s this come from?? outta nowhere
Can’t believe they managed to keep this one quiet!
Happy days! Now we need to focus on the midfield.
Gotta love an out of the blue signing!
Out of the blues
Exciting. There is potential for a lot of goals between him and Eddie. I do wonder if he is THE marquee signing for this window or if we are in for another big surprise.
Now I want us to draw Beitar Jerusalem in the Europa league.
Mohammed and Jesus together on their way to Jerusalem.
We should give snap up Victor Moses; already have Noa Lang on our radar
Simon Moses would be even better
top, top signing! Welcome, holy messiah!
He’s not the messiah he’s a very naughty boy
Oh dear, Spurs.
You and your ‘ECL Football to offer’ just weren’t good enough, were you?
Enjoy your second best crapness from your infinitely inferior Twitter loving Neanderthal.
Forever In Our Shadow. 😂
For a guy who says he’s sick to death of that lot, you talk about them a lot. Too much.
Well downvote me mate.
Go on. You know you want to.
🙄
In a year Kane and Son will both turn 30 and will be ready for the knackers yard, whilst pea brain Richarlison will be ready for the men in white coats.
Genuinely think this could be a monumental signing. Up the Arse, Jesus!
Haha 😂
So for next season we have Mohammed and we have Jesus!
What can go wrong?!
Announce Tammy Abraham!
Just as well that Victor Moses is over the hill
What do we want that Chelsea reject for?
To make a Biblical 11.
A greater than Abraham is here.
Jesus and Mohamed on the same team! Now it is time to start believing!!!
Yay. Transformative!
This seemed to have come from out of nowhere. Had not heard a whisper on this one.
Great stuff.
Finally Jesus will get the fanbase he deserves <3
In this day and age a great price to pay especially when you consider what we paid for Pepe!
He’ll be the main man so hopefully bang in the goals. Ship some out now and hoping we’ll bring in a couple more
Great signing, think he will be great for us. Just a a bit frustrated he won’t be available for games over Easter 😀
When Jesus puts down the phone, Eddie’ll start picking them up
Heard Eddie showed him around Colney and the Emirates. Gonna spend the night at the call desk with Jesus, to help him settle in.
LANS!
Could this be another Alexis Sanchez moment?
I certainly hope so.
Welcome to The Arsenal son!
FINALLY
Wow didn’t see this coming. Lol
I’m calling it now. First day hattrick. Celebration with Eddie for the final goal having a good old chin wag on the phone
Transfer of the window. Versatile player who can play a few positions but you know he’s gonna be our man up top next season. Eddie for cover, midfielder and lb and we are looking fucking solid.
What about right back? I know we literally have four options there now but two of them want to leave/aren’t wanted (even thought they’re good enough), one has just had a long term injury and the other is… well… Cedric. Or do you sea White shifted out there more for Saliba in the middle?
I don’t see RB as a priority area even if/when Bellerin leaves. A new signing would still play second fiddle to Tomi and as you mentioned, White and Saliba can play there if you really don’t want to play Cedric. Not to mention Brooke Norton-Cuffy will be getting some experience this year to give us strength in depth later on.
Honestly man for where we’re at as a team Cedric is okay for cover. We’re not on the levels of city where we can have a perfect 2nd 11. However Nuno is not adequate cover and definitely cost us some points.
Cedric is shit. End of.
Too many idiots out there who still think Cedric is adequate, in spite of the fact his errors in April and May played a major part in us blowing 4th place.
Is there a “no fly” clause in his contract?
I hear he was put off it after a nasty experience with a pilate.
Like father like son. God didn’t like flying either.
Wow. No one saw that coming! 😅
Nailed on starter
This signing is a testament to the hard work of the recruitment team. Although the announcement felt longer than waiting for the second coming.
Excited to see him here, I have a hunch he is going to be a revelation. Eating up chances like it’s his last supper and nailing crosses left right and centre.
What was the problem with waiting a bit? Remember, he also took three days to rise from the dead.
Would that be the New Testament??
Welcome on board the Arsenal, Gabriel.
Mohammed passes to Jesus and Jesus back to Mohammed….
Who would have thought?
Stuff of dreams
If we resigned our old Gabriel, we could have a four-part angelic choir
Great business there by City.
Buy for £27m+, sell for £45m; approx. £18m profit with only a year’s contract left.
Arteta and Edu have evidently learned a thing or two, considering their signings in the past 3 windows.
City seem to be having a good window selling wise, £14m for Romeo Lavia who played a grand total of about 1 FA Cup game, £12m for Bazunu after a year of League 1 football with an Ireland debut thrown in, can you imagine us getting anywhere near that amount for say Azeez or Hein? We can’t even get market value for Torreira!
Among the photos there’s this fisheye-lens shot of GJ next to the clock, arms spread like Christ the Redeemer over Rio.
Pretty cool but it honestly triggers my terror of heights. I hope Stuart MacFarlane doesn’t suffer from that. And that they’re all secretly wearing velcro boots or whatever. Yikes.