Arsenal star Gabriel Jesus dropped another subtle hint that he is closing in on a return by what he was wearing when spotted in the post-Bournemouth celebrations. The 25-year-old was captured on the touchline alongside Mohamed Elneny after the full time whistle receiving hugs from Mikel Arteta, Emile Smith Rowe and Reiss Nelson.
While Elneny was wearing normal clothes, Jesus was wearing a pre-match kit and that was because he took part in a post-match warm down alongside substitutes such as Kieran Tierney and Jakub Kiwior as noted by Goal.com's Arsenal's correspondent Charles Watts.
"He’s not far now," Arteta revealed ahead of the Bournemouth game when asked how Jesus is. "I don’t want to give a timeline, but he’s doing certain things with the team and certain things outside the team still.
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"He’s not very close, but he’s not very far. He’s feeling better every day and the doctors are feeling confident with how he’s evolving. We are in a good place with him, I think."
Arsenal and Arteta have been keen to not place a timeline on when Jesus will return but there are some estimations that he will return in early March and this would coincide with the return of European football for Arsenal. Having topped their Europa League group, Arsenal progressed straight through to the last 16, a round they have never been eliminated from in their past three visits in the modern iteration of the tournament.
After several training sessions at London Colney, his work after the game on Saturday shows he is closing in on a return and Jesus was joined by two important people in his life. The former Manchester City man took to Twitter to post some images of his wife and daughter, captioning the post "Best part of my day", *heart emoji*, *heart eyes emoji*, *hands together emoji*.
Jesus and Matt Turner were also pictured on the pitch playing football together using their children.
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