Arsenal are growing increasingly optimistic that they will get the deal to bring Gabriel Jesus over the line - and they are leaving his shirt number free.
Mikel Arteta made it abundantly clear to Gunners bosses that he would need to be backed in the transfer window, having agonisingly missed out on the top four last season. "Players that come here have to be able to take us to the next level,” he explained at the start of the window.
“We already have a level, and we want to see much better standards than we already have, and that is how we’re going to recruit. It's what we planned, but the market is difficult, it's complicated.”
