Barcelona has activated the Gabriel Jesus route. The blaugrana club is negotiating with Arsenal for the immediate incorporation of the 29-year-old Brazilian forward, in a deal that would be around 10 million euros plus variables depending on matches played and titles. The proposed agreement would be for two seasons plus an optional one as reported by Mundo Deportivo and confirmed by La Vanguardia.
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Talks with Arsenal are advanced and Barça seeks to close a cost-contained deal in the coming hours to strengthen a position that had been uncertain throughout the summer. The Brazilian attacker, who arrived at Arsenal from Manchester City in 2022, is the last-minute solution for Hansi Flick’s forward line. Sources from the training ground explain that he is a piece that fits the coach: a pure number nine, a finisher to complete the squad as his scoring records show: he scored 95 goals in 236 matches at Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, where he played from 2016 to 2022, and 33 goals in 123 matches played at Arsenal.
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The arrival of Gabriel Jesus appears as an alternative, a market option to strengthen the attack front after Barça saw the option of Julián Álvarez definitively complicated. The Brazilian brings experience, mobility, and the ability to play as a center forward, but also to move to the sides. The operation is understood internally as a way to add goals after the departure of Lewandowski and Ferran Torres. Club sources explain that in no case does this signing come to replace Julián Álvarez. It is a move independent of the Argentine, whom they continue and will continue to wait for in future transfer windows.
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