Gabriel Jesus' future at Arsenal is in doubt as the club continue to evolve their attacking options under Mikel Arteta.
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Jesus has played an important role since joining from Manchester City, but competition for places and injuries have reduced the Brazilian's role.
The signing of Viktor Gyokeres has pushed Jesus out of his preferred central striker role, and while the 28 year-old has recently returned to fitness to make his 100th appearance fo the club, Arsenal may see value in selling him at the right time, while Jesus will not want to play a minor role in a World Cup year.
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"He's very fit. We've been gradually increasing his minutes," Mikel Arteta said after the Gunners' Carabao Cup penalty-shootout triumph over Crystal Palace on Tuesday night.
"But [against Palace] as long as he was OK, everybody was happy to let him go on. When we get into fatigue mode, we took him off, but we're very happy."
Arsenal are expected to dip into the transfer market to strengthen their options in January, and a new forward signing could come at the cost of their current number nine.
Arsenal could sell Jesus to sign Semenyo
That is according to ex-Everton, Aston Villa, and Aberdeen chief executive Keith Wyness, who told Football Insider Antoine Semenyo could ditch his proposed move to Manchester City if Arsenal clear a role for him.
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"There was a rumour which was interesting about Semenyo coming to Arsenal almost as a blocking transfer to stop anybody else trying to strengthen. That would be interesting.
"And if they got rid of Jesus, then possibly that’s something that could happen. However, something we’ve talked about before is the good work that Arsenal have done in getting the other contracts with the players signed early, and getting them tied down to get stability.
"And I think that’s one of the key things that Arteta has been preaching about is stability in the squad. However, if there’s a chance to add quality in January, then they may well do it. It would all depend on the deal.
“I don’t know how many deals are actually live for him. I mean he’s saying he’s apparently turned down Spurs. We’ll just have to wait and see where he ends up. But Arsenal’s not quite out of the question there from all I’m hearing.”
Jesus is one of Arsenal's highest earners on £265,000-a-week, and while reports suggest Semenyo has already turned down a large contract off from Tottenham, the Bournemouth star would likely command lower wages than Arsenal's current number nine.
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With a release clause of £65m which will become active in January, Semenyo, who Pep Guardiola has called "extraordinary" and "unbelievable", is set to be the most in demand player of the winter transfer window.