It was in the air in recent days despite OL’s denials and the bids kept going up. According to the Team, the “Guimaraes” file was closed this Friday morning. OL and Newcastle have definitively agreed on the transfer of Bruno Guimaraes to the Premier League club, currently 19th and penultimate in the Premier League. The amount of the operation should be around 50 M€, since the Magpies will pay 42.5 M€ immediately to OL, together with 8 M€ in bonuses which relate mainly to maintaining them in the Premier League.
This would make it the third biggest transfer in the history of the Lyon club. According to L’Équipe, a Newcastle representative arrives this Friday in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where Bruno Guimaraes landed last night with the Seleçao, who played Thursday night in Ecuador (1-1). The English leader will welcome the 24-year-old midfielder with his agents, and the medical visit will be held in the followingnoon. The information of the formalization of the transfer should then intervene in the evening, or Saturday at the latest.
Newcastle, hyperactive new rich on transfers
Newcastle, bought 333 million euros by a consortium including the Saudi investment fund PCP Capital Partners at the beginning of October and new rich of the football planet, now plays in the same court as Manchester City and PSG. Also the formation of the north of England undertakes to build a team to the extent of its new standing.
The Black and Whites have already poached from Atlético de Madrid Kieran Trippier, the English international right-back once morest 15 million euros in early January and hired Chris Wood, the New Zealand center forward from Burnley. They are in talks with Sevilla FC to secure the services of Diego Carlos, the Brazilian central defender and are also interested in Sven Botman, the Dutch central defender of Losc.
A sumptuous offer of €20m has also been made for Mitchel Bakker, little seen in Paris who sold him €7m to Leverkusen last summer and only regarding fifteen appearances with the German club during the first part of season. Contacts have been made with English international midfielders Dele Alli (Tottenham) and Jesse Lingard (Manchester United).
