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Arsenal have set their price for a major squad player to be sold this summer.
The Gunners spent a club-record amount in a transfer window in 2025, bringing eight new faces to the club, with the likes of Martin Zubimendi, Eberechi Eze and Viktor Gyokeres playing key roles in leading the club into a title race and the Champions League semi-finals.
There is an acceptance, however, that Arsenal will have to sell this summer to balance the books – and it appears as if one leader within the squad has been earmarked for an exit.
Arsenal green-light exit for star… who doesn't want to leave
While Arsenal are six points clear in the title race and have reached successive appearances in the final four in Europe's premier competition for the first time in their history, a squad that looked to have plenty of depth at the start of the campaign is beginning to creak under the pressure of what will be a minimum of a 62-game season.
Key stars Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard and Riccardo Calafiori all missed out in last night's fixture against Sporting, while Noni Madueke went off injured: and while injuries have dogged their ability to score goals, there have also been questions over the quality of the frontline, raised again on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football this week by pundit Jamie Carragher, in the wake of Arsenal's weekend defeat to Bournemouth.
Now, a report from Brazilian outlet A Critica claims that Arsenal have slapped a €30 million price tag on Gabriel Jesus' head – though according to ESPN Brazil journalist, Bruno Andrade, last month, the forward has made his priority to renew his contract in N5.
Jesus had an immediate impact upon moving to the Emirates Stadium in 2022, leading the line for manager Mikel Arteta in the club's first title challenge since 2015/16 and even being named as a vice-captain at the club, due to his experience of winning titles at Manchester City.
After an injury while on World Cup duty that winter, however, the Brazilian has struggled to recapture his early form in red-and-white, suffering a succession of further blows before an anterior cruciate ligament injury in January of 2025 ruled him out for almost a whole year.
FourFourTwo understands that there was a chance that Jesus could have left in the winter, with his former club, Palmeiras, interested in bringing him back to his homeland – but with both Arteta and Jesus himself opting against a move, the 29-year-old has remained on the fringes of the first team and has been used sparingly as an impact player, as he steps up an ambitious attempt to force himself into Carlo Ancelotti's Brazil squad this summer to play at his third World Cup.
Next January marks a decade since Jesus first arrived in English football, and the forward is said to favour staying in the Premier League even if his employers don't want him, while Arsenal are said to be open to the possibility of letting their no.9 leave on loan with an obligation to buy, with clubs in Italy said to be interested.
FourFourTwo understands that as much as Gunners sporting director Andrea Berta would like to receive a fee for Jesus, ahead of the final year of the contract he signed in 2022, part of the allure of selling him is to get his wages off the books, with the star still among the very highest earners at the club – as Capology estimate that he earns around a base salary of £265,000 a week.
Sport Witness have relayed the news of Arsenal's asking price, noting that, “Until now, most of the discussion had been based on intention rather than concrete terms,” with the figure of €30m, giving “real shape” to the probability of the move.
Jesus is worth €20m, according to Transfermarkt. Arsenal are back in action against Manchester City this weekend when Premier League action returns.
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