Jesus, 29, has just one year to run on his contract with the English champions and has emerged as an option for Bar\u00e7a following their failure to land Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bar\u00e7a are hopeful of finalising a deal worth in the region of \u20ac10 million ($11.5m \/ \u00a38m) for Jesus before the transfer window closes on Tuesday, with the source adding the player could even arrive in Spain to finalise the deal as soon as Monday.<\/p>\n The source adds the potential signing of Jesus will not necessarily end the Spanish champions’ long-term pursuit of Argentina<\/a> international \u00c1lvarez.<\/p>\n Bar\u00e7a made \u00c1lvarez their top target this summer following the departures of Robert Lewandowski<\/a> and Ferran Torres<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, Atl\u00e9tico have refused to negotiate a deal with Bar\u00e7a, accusing them of tapping up \u00c1lvarez, which has forced the club to explore other options to fill the No.9 role.<\/p>\n Raphinha<\/a> has played as the central striker in Bar\u00e7a’s first two games of the season, scoring three goals, but coach Hansi Flick would like to have the option of an actual No.9 in the squad as well.<\/p>\n – ‘Perfect’ signing Rodri makes Barcelona debut as newcomers shine<\/a> Jesus has fallen out of favour at Arsenal, with Kai Havertz<\/a> and Viktor Gy\u00f6keres<\/a> both preferred ahead of him as the team’s striker.<\/p>\n He was left out of the squad for the Community Shield victory over Manchester City<\/a> and their Premier League<\/a> opening day win against Coventry City<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 30, 2026, 09:04 AM ET Barcelona are in “very advanced” negotiations with Arsenal over a deal to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-77975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Gabriel Jesus is behind Kai Havertz and Viktor Gyokeres in the pecking order at Arsenal.\u00a0Alex Pantling\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
– Every time Messi scored 4 goals for Barcelona, Inter Miami, Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n