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Joseph McBride

Gabriel Jesus' training plea to Mikel Arteta as £45m Arsenal transfer all agreed

Arsenal are on the verge of signing Gabriel Jesus from Manchester City, after a £45million fee was agreed for the striker on Sunday.

The Brazilian is set to travel to London on Tuesday to complete his medical, before joining up with his new team-mates for Arsenal's pre-season that gets underway in July. It will be unfamiliar surroundings for Jesus, who has been in Manchester since 2017, but he will be reunited with Mikel Arteta.

Jesus has moved to join up with Arteta after the Spaniard formed a close relationship while he was Pep Guardiola 's assistant at City. And back then Jesus used to ask Arteta to stick around after training to help with his finishing.

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