Apparently Jesus was on £90k a week at Manchester City. So if Arsenal are going to pay him £280k per week, that’s more than three times the salary he was on there? £190k (£280k - £90k) a week is nearly £10m (£9.88m) a year more than he was on City, the Premier League’s big spenders in recent years. Like you I can’t see him turning that down, if your figures are correct.

Harry Kane is on £200k a week, so we’ll be paying Gabriel Jesus £80k a week more than Tottenham pay Kane. That’s nearly £4.2m (£4.16m) a year more than Kane gets, who is arguably the best centre forward in the world.

If he isn’t a rip roaring success, Jesus will be another player we’ll struggle to get rid of. Let’s hope he is or Arteta and Edu will surely have questions to answer.

Can anyone explain the rationale behind making this bid for Raphina so public?. We've obviously fed the info to our resident mouthpiece David Ornstein but how does making the info public help us?

Ornstein has reported an official bid has been made by Arsenal for Raphinha. It is expected to be rejected as its well below Leeds’ valuation

Hi Bernard,

That's crazy money for a player who still doesn't really know his best position. Is he a wide forward or is he a no.9, history suggests more of a wide forward.

I get the bit where it enables us to have a fluid attack, a la City, with the front three all interchangeable but it seems far too much for a player with a lot still to prove.

I think the reason the club does this is to literally make the player and his agents aware the club have made a formal offer. If the player is pushing his club for a move it adds more pressure to the situation if he’s aware the clubs interest is very public . If you have an unwilling negotiator it kind of adds more pressure.

I can’t see that one happening personally. Tielemans similar, can you see Leicester selling us their best midfielder for just 25 million I can’t, you have an arrogant manager and an owner that doesn’t sell cheaply.

Also the report says his salary goes up by another million per annum if we qualify for the champions league. That’s huge money. I think it makes him the second or third highest paid Arsenal player of all time behind Özil and Aubameyang.

No wonder the player is so keen on the move. Him and his agent probably can’t believe it. The club can be certain of his arrival offering that type of contract. I doubt he would have got offered more than 2 thirds of that elsewhere. Saka needs to have a word about his salary now.

Can't they just call or text the agent and let him now we've bid?

I can't see it happening, either, I think at his age he will be wanting CL football and rightly so, it's a short career.

It must be bullshite because ther rest of the players will be well pissed off with that kind of salary. Different if you are signing a genuine worldclass talent who will win you trophies.

Id be surprised if it’s not true honestly. Football is ridiculous with money and those types of transfers seem driven by who offers the most skrilla

Saw a report that the offer was for £50m. Wonder what the hell Leeds’ valuation is if that falls ‘well below’ according to Ornstein?

We paid £50m for Ben White last year, an uncapped centre back. Raphinha has played and scored in some of Brazil's world cup qualifiers in the past 12 months. He's also a flashy player which inevitably increases the fee.

Maybe. Bernard made a good point, it could be another Özil situation if it doesn't work out and we are left with a player on so much money we can't shift him.

£50m might seem a good price but a massive salary kind of negates that a bit.

Hi dec,

Only one year left on his deal though.

I suggest you not ask a question about a name like Jesus. Because there is a history of that story not going well.

...Football is ridiculous with money and those types of transfers seem driven by who offers the most skrilla

He could be the man for a waterlogged pitch?

I don't blame any player getting as much as he can.

? Bit like Steve Williams , sodden drenched downcast waterlogged leading us off after a 1-0 loss v York City in God Knows when 83 ? Having said that I liked Steve Williams he was a top of the line midfielder in the Souness Ball Hibbit Mackay Gemmill mould ... talented provider and a bit of a hard arse . Par for the course I guess in those days when men were men These days the recipient copping a kick in the shin ; does five hundred forward rolls screaming and clutching his throat .

What sort of values have you got you Old Poofter ... Elvis Presley Johnny Cash Roy Orbison should desert Sam Phillips when some label offered $30 more a week. No wonder the world has gone to cack when you espouse such values ... we should applaud guys like Tony Adams Billy Bonds Matt Le Tisseur blokes who could have gone somewhere but stayed .

? Bit like Steve Williams , sodden drenched downcast waterlogged leading us off after a 1-0 loss v York City in God Knows when 83 ?

Can anyone explain the rationale behind making this bid for Raphina so public?. We've obviously fed the info to our resident mouthpiece David Ornstein but how does making the info public help us?

Errr....it was 1985 and the pitch was rock hard due to sub-zero weather conditions.

Steve Williams did play but he wasn't Captain. The score was indeed 1-0 to York.

2 out of 5 facts correct, so 40% right - not bad for you KP.

He could be the man for a waterlogged pitch?

I do agree about those players you mention - all genuine icons of the clubs they represented and true giants. Sometimes see Billy at Bluewater Shopping Centr, where he is always approached by Hammers fans for a chat, which he is happy to do. I would add Elliott Bradbrook and the Immortal Danny Harris to the list - both turned down Bernabeu to stay at Princes Park, the Home of Football.

Difference between now and then is that the whole of the top-level of the game is marinaded in money - everyone is on the gravy train, so I have to back the players getting their share.

Errr....it was 1985 and the pitch was rock hard due to sub-zero weather conditions.

Steve Williams did play but he wasn't Captain. The score was indeed 1-0 to York.

2 out of 5 facts correct, so 40% right - not bad for you KP.

We might be trying to get someone else and this is deflection to either drive the price down make people look away from the real target.

footballers and gravy train ... should a Lacazette or Özil be getting twenty times more a week wandering around producing f***ck all than the guy who repairs your ruptured water pipe not in my book . Danny Harris ? you mean Chopper ...

Have this to get on with ...... I never liked him , trying to sound like Eddie Cochrane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewev8c-zNl8

you looked it up you poser ...no way your memory recalled that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw3CemSTctA

Just read that Gabriel Jesus offer from us provides a wage per week of 280k quid ish. This makes him our best paid player by miles on more than Kane per week.

No way he isn’t turning up at Arsenal now. It makes other transfers unfeasible. If it’s right or wrong is another thing

? Bit like Steve Williams , sodden drenched downcast waterlogged leading us off after a 1-0 loss v York City in God Knows when 83 ? Having said that I liked Steve Williams he was a top of the line midfielder in the Souness Ball Hibbit Mackay Gemmill mould ... talented provider and a bit of a hard arse .
Par for the course I guess in those days when men were men These days the recipient copping a kick in the shin ; does five hundred forward rolls screaming and clutching his throat .

How much! Has the prospect of distorting the squad, and has shades of Özil and Aubameyang about it.

Three times as much as he got at Man City, and a mega transfer fee too. Not great optics.

They ain’t cheap strikers

He’s leaving a champions league title winning club to join us ! It had to be attractive

Btw I did something similar once and asked a new company to increase my salary by a third to join them. They obliged. Don’t ask don’t get is my motto !!!

Is he a striker though? Is it worth upsetting the balance of pay?

Btw I did something similar once and asked a new company to increase my salary by a third to join them. They obliged. Don’t ask don’t get is my motto !!!