His impressive scoring record at Highfield Road – seventy goals in 138 games – meant Jones attracted interest from various clubs and Coventry managed to resist a £7,000 offer from Tottenham Hotspur but couldn't resist an even higher offer from Arsenal in 1937, with Bobby Davidson going the other way.
[2] Jones made his Arsenal debut against Grimsby Town on 6 November 1937, scoring in a 2–1 defeat, and he helped the club to a league title in the 1937–38 season;[3] Jones played as a withdrawn inside forward for Arsenal and consequently scored fewer goals – just three in 31 appearances that season.
He won a Charity Shield medal the following season but his career at Arsenal was limited due to the outbreak of World War II.
By the time the war ended, he was 35 and his final game for Arsenal was against West Ham United in the FA Cup on 9 January 1946.
His stay at the Vetch Field was short and he left to take over as player-manager at non-league side Barry Town before returning to the Football League with his final club, Brighton & Hove Albion, before retiring.