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We are in the final week of the transfer window, and Gabriel Jesus is still an Arsenal player. He is in the final year of his contract, and this is the last real opportunity Arsenal have to sell him for any relevant fee.
Napolii want to sign Jesus - In fact, the Italian side are even willing to pay the price to sign him. However, that door is closed by Jesus, who doesn't want to join Napoli.
It's easy to misconstrue this information. It's easy to look at Jesus' decision to stay at Arsenal as a positive message to the club he loves, but it's unfortunately not the case.
The painfully obvious reason Gabriel Jesus won't leave Arsenal
Gabriel Jesus wants to stay at Arsenal because he is the third-highest-paid player at the club. Let's be honest.
Player | Weekly fixed pay | Yearly fixed salary |
|---|---|---|
Bukayo Saka | £300,000 | £15,600,000 |
Kai Havertz | £280,000 | £14,560,000 |
Gabriel Jesus | £265,000 | £13,780,000 |
Via Capology.
He isn't expected to do much. The club and the fanbase expect him to be absent through injury most of the time anyway, but when he's fit, he's the fourth-choice striker who never plays.
If anybody else could get paid so much with minimal expectations, they would. And it's not necessarily a bad reflection of Jesus, either. He was given this contract by Arsenal, and he's owed the opportunity to see it out how he sees fit.
If he wants to spend another season on Arsenal's bench (if that), then he's entitled to do so. The key here, at least from a fan perspective, is that there is no misconstrued messaging if that's the decision.
Yes, it's frustrating. Two feelings can arise at the same time: fans can accept that Jesus is entitled to his own decision, while being frustrated by the decision he's made.
The best outcome is one that doesn't look like happening
The best-case scenario for fans is that he's sold in the final week of the transfer window. Arsenal don't need time to find a replacement because, with all due respect, a replacement is not necessary.
While there is still time for a Jesus suitor to be found before the window slams close next Tuesday, it's not looking overly promising.
He's already turned down a great European club that not many would turn down. He has set an almighty precadent and, to be frank, it would take a complete gamble for any club to match the salary he's on, seeing how unreliable his minutes are.
The perfect time to bow out is now. He helped Arsenal become the club they are today, and he's a Premier League champion with us.
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