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Manchester City have ‘high aspirations’ for Brazilian signing Gabriel Jesus.

The striker will not feature in Sunday’s clash with Everton despite being at the club for around two weeks.

The Blues hierarchy are in no rush to fast-track the 19-year-old straight into action, so much so that his registration remains incomplete and the club are yet to officially unveil him.

But City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak has described him an ‘incredible talent’, admitting the Blues were tracking him for a year before beating rivals - including Manchester United - to land the player from Brazilian club Palmeiras for £27million.

Jesus has established himself as Brazil’s No.9 having only made his first-team debut for Palmeiras 22 months ago.

City sealed the deal in August but he remained with Palmeiras until mid-December. He has since been settling into life in Manchester with his family and enjoying life in the city.

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Though many fans have asked why he has not already been made available to manager Pep Guardiola, Al Mubarak has preached patience, despite admitting: “He’s an incredible talent.”

He told The National : “We have a lot of aspirations for him, but we have to be patient. He’s 19 and there’s still time to adjust.

“When we first started looking at him about a year ago, he was unknown. He wasn’t a global name by any means.

“We were successful in acquiring Gabriel in the summer. Even then he was still relatively unknown.

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“He’s 19, he’s very young, Brazilian, going to Europe and the Premier League and we’re very conscious that we need to take care of him all the time and not put too much pressure on him.”

If Guardiola has been desperate to draft him into his Premier League attack, he hasn’t shown it, recently stating: “He was three weeks-one month off on holidays but he played two friendly games. He rested, he needed that.

“We are delighted he is here and what we are looking for is for him to settle as soon as possible, to try to help him to be happy here and to have a good connection with his team-mates.

“Try to help him to be happy here. To have a good connection with his team-mates. The process to understand and play in the league needs time.

“Hopefully he can do what he is with the national team of Brazil, his old club, playing in front and help us to score the goals which is his big value.”