The fee for the 25-year-old is understood to be £45m and he moves to the Emirates after undergoing a medical and agreeing personal terms. Jesus will wear the No 9 shirt recently vacated by Alexandre Lacazette, who left for Lyon on a free transfer.

The Gunners put in nearly six months of work with Jesus’ representative Marcello Pettinati to ensure they were in pole position to recruit him from City this summer.

He becomes the north London club’s fourth signing of the summer following the additions of Fabio Vieira, Matt Turner and Marquinhos

Arsenal technical director Edu said, “We are delighted that we have secured the transfer of Gabriel. Everyone who knows football well, knows the qualities of Gabriel Jesus.

“Gabriel is a player who we have admired for a long time now. He is 25 years old and an established Brazil international who has consistently demonstrated that he is a player at a very high level. We look forward to seeing him join up with his new teammates ahead of the new season. We all welcome Gabriel to Arsenal.”

Mikel Arteta added, “I’m very excited. The club has done a tremendous job to recruit a player of this stature. I know Gabriel personally very well, and we all know him well from his time in the Premier League and being really successful here. “This is a position that’s been on our radar for a long time now and we have managed to get a player that we all wanted, so I’m really happy.”

FIFA rules state that players can be ruled out for any club games five days following the international break should the clubs refuse to release them for the matches.

The ruling made on Wednesday, September 8 by FIFA comes after the Brazilian FA pressured FIFA to invoke this rule on all Brazilian players playing in the Premier League as all the English clubs unanimously agreed not to send their players to a ‘red-list nation’ citing the risk of contracting Covid-19 plus the amount of time it’ll take for the players to quarantine upon arrival from International duty.

With this action, the Brazilian FA has risked the wrath of the English clubs by imposing a ‘five-day restriction’ on the players they called up for their World Cup qualifiers this week.

The news means Liverpool are set to be without Alisson, Fabinho and Roberto Firmino for their clash at Leeds on Sunday, while Raphinha will be missing for the home side.

Man City will be without Gabriel Jesus and goalkeeper Ederson while Manchester United will be without Fred. Interestingly, Everton is allowed to select Richarlison for their next game as the club has good relations with the Brazilian FA.

Gabriel Jesus provided the assist for the first goal as he set up Everton’s opener on 15 minutes. Peru came back into the game as Paolo Guerrero scored for Peru from the penalty spot.

Jesus then got on the score sheet minutes before after time to restore Brazil’s lead on the stroke of half-time.

It was substitute Richarlison’s late penalty that sealed a ninth Copa America title for Brazil and their first since 2007.