The explosion of Gabriel Jesus at Arsenal and the passport that took him away from Real Madrid

• Premier This is the classification

Minute 4 of

this past Saturday.

(Sao Paulo, 1997), in the center of the field and with his back to the rival goal, punctures a ball that was falling from the sky with his right boot and accommodates it, in a single touch, to one side to turn around and face the area.

He runs past his marker with a diagonal to the left, turns to the right, dribbles past another defender and plants himself in front.

He can shoot, but gives in to his teammate

to leave him alone with the goalkeeper.

and goal.

It was the play of the day in the

.

The simplest explanation for why the Brazilian striker is the sensation at the start of the English championship.

Arsenal is the sole leader with three wins in three games and he has two goals and three assists.

Associative, dribbler and finisher, the signing of him by the team led by the Spanish Mikel Arteta has changed the face of the London team, which dreams of standing up to

at the top of the table.

It has not been an easy summer for Gabriel Jesus.

's arrival

at Manchester City opened wide the exit door for him from the

, where he had scored

.

At

, his talent asked for a team from the first European step.

At the same time, Madrid was searching the market to find a top-level attacker who could be complemented by

.

That is to say, that he could play as '9' or thrown to the band depending on the circumstances.

The looks, once

said "no" and the whites withdrew from the bid for Haaland, led to Jesus.

In Valdebebas the Brazilian liked him a lot, and he likes him, but his signing became impossible due to the eternal wait for

's passport .

The Madrid striker is one of the three Brazilians on the squad, along with

and

, and is the first who could obtain nationality for having spent four years in

.

Both Madrid and the footballer's environment have

but the country's bureaucracy, justified by the delays due to the pandemic, does not help him.

A signing of 52 million

With this situation, and despite the contacts with the representatives of Gabriel Jesus, he ended up signing for Arsenal, who took him for 52

euros at the beginning of July.

Two months later, Jesus shines with the 'Gunners' and Madrid is still waiting for Vinicius's passport, for which there is no longer so much concern as no non-EU player is interested.

Ancelotti's squad, yes, seems to continue to need a

, once the departure of

's lack of confidence

in

.

, who is also looking for a destination, could be placed as 'false 9' when the time comes, but an injury to the French captain would complicate the situation for the whites.

A problem that, if Vinicius had a Spanish passport, the arrival of Gabriel Jesus would have saved.

Meanwhile, in

they enjoy their new star.

Spearhead of a young team that has amazed in its first three weekends.

The 'gunner' board has spent more than

: 53 on Jesus, 35 on

, another former City player, and 35 on

, from Porto.

In addition, he has recovered on loan that his teams have done well, such as the French central defender

, 21, who was at Marseille.

The arrivals, together with the backbone that Arteta already had, leave an extremely young Premier League leader: midfielders

(23) and

(21), goalkeeper

, defenders

(24) or

(24)... And on point, Gabriel Jesus, wearing red... Although it could have been white.

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