The Athletic. Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast and Mark Chapman. Coming up, Simon Hughes,

will be with us to discuss the Merseyside Derby and the gulf between Liverpool and

Everton on and off the pitch. And despite winning a 10th title in a row at the weekend, Kit Holden

will tell us why it hasn't been a great season for Byron and why the future of star players like

Robert Lewandowski is uncertain. First up, though, Ars are exploring the possibility of signing Gabrielle Jesus

from Manchester City in the summer transfer window, as reported by the athletics, David

Ornstein.

We'll talk to Sam Lee, who covers City for the Athletic, shortly.

But David, first, with all the details.

How far have Arsenal got with this, David?

Well, the situation all revolves around Manchester City's pursuit of Erling Harlan

because the likelihood is there's going to be an opportunity for Gabriel Jesus to leave

this summer if City get Harland, which we expect them to do, or another striker if they don't,

then with Jesus coming towards the end of his contract, he's approaching his final 12 months,

he's had limited game time at City, of course. There haven't been any sort of suggestions that

he'll be signing a new deal. Then that gives the opportunity for clubs to

take him. Arsenal have been fans of him for a while. Mikhail Ateta knows him well from working

at City. Edu knows him well, who's Arsenal's technical director because he's also Brazilian,

of course. Edu is close to the representatives of Gabriel Jesus from the time that EDU spent working at

Corinthians and of course the Brazil national team. And I understand that they have been talking

for a number of months about this possibility to the extent that that part of negotiations

from what I hear is pretty much done and dusted. But there has been no

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