With the European winter transfer window closed, a Brazilian is in the top 3 of negotiations in the five biggest European leagues.
Bruno Guimarães was second only to forwards Dusan Vlahovic (Serbian, from Fiorentina to Juventus, for €75 million) and Ferrán Torres (Spanish, from Manchester City to Barcelona, for €55.5 million), according to the newspaper The Guardian.
To take the former Athletico-PR player from French Lyon, Newcastle paid approximately € 40 million (R$ 238 million).
It’s not common for someone to pay such a figure for a steering wheel, and that’s exactly why the 24-year-old carioca player will be in the spotlight in the coming months.
It will be a challenging period until May/June for Bruno Guimarães. His new team occupies the 18th and antepenultimate position in the English Premier League.
With 15 points from 21 games, they are in the relegation zone, ahead only of Watford (14 points from 20 games) and Burnley (12 points from 18 games).
Newcastle recently changed hands, and the new owner, Saudi Arabia’s trillionaire Public Investment Fund, has decided to go to the market to save the club from relegation.
In addition to Bruno Guimarães, he has signed the big, burly New Zealand striker Chris Wood (€30m), who was at Burnley, defender Dean Burn (€15m), who was at Brighton, and right-back KIeran Trippier (€15m). 14.4 million), from Atletico Madrid and the England national team.
Tripper is good, hits the ball well, likes (and knows) to support. Wood is average, bothers by physical strength, but his ability is very limited. Burn is weak, has a tough waist, there are hundreds far better than him.
Thus, the biggest hit of the super-rich Newcastle, in theory, is Bruno Guimarães, and the expectations around him are very high.
This is an excellent steering wheel. Good height (1.82 m), good distribution of plays, good vision of the game, good marking power, good in aerial balls. Holder of Brazil Olympic champion at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Will it be enough to hit a midfield that sweats a lot, but whose inspiration comes down to sporadic flashes of bald Jonjo Shelvey?
In the current Newscastle, for the team to function and evolve, the Brazilian will have to find a way to play even better.
You will need to keep your usual hits (in passes, in short dribbles, in anticipations, in containing rivals), have the breath to go on the attack and come back throughout the game (and in every game). In addition, scoring goals (there were few in his career) and providing assists.
In short, Bruno Guimarães is expected to be the leader of Newcastle in their recovery. Immediately effective in the richest championship in Europe. No less than that
If he succeeds, his image as a player will grow tremendously, and his chance to play in Qatar, at this year’s World Cup, in the midfield of the Brazilian team could become real.
He is currently a reserve in Tite’s team. The starting midfielders are Casemiro (untouchable, and rightly so), from Real Madrid, and Fred, from Manchester United.
If he fails to get Newcastle to gear up, Bruno Guimarães runs the risk of not even being a reserve in the selection – he has competition, among others, from Fabinho (Liverpool), Douglas Luiz (Aston Villa) and Gerson (Olympique de Marseille).
And, in case of relegation of the club, the bitterness of the dispute of the second division in 2022/23, something unimaginable while it was in Lyon, one of the main forces of French football.
This Tuesday (1st), Bruno Guimarães entered the second half of Brazil 4 x 0 Paraguay, for the World Cup Qualifiers, in place of Philippe Coutinho, and had a good performance, appearing in the area to assist Rodrygo’s goal.
His debut for Newcastle should take place on Tuesday (8), against Everton, or on Sunday (13), against Aston Villa.
Source: Folha
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