Arsenal sign Guimaraes from Newcastle in £75m deal
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- Arsenal signed Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle United for £75m on a four-year deal with a 12-month extension option
- Guimaraes, 28, left Newcastle's pre-season training camp in La Manga, Spain, this week after a breakthrough in talks to finalize his Emirates Stadium switch
- The Brazil midfielder captained Newcastle to their first major domestic trophy in seven decades, beating Liverpool in the 2025 EFL Cup final
- Guimaraes joined Newcastle in January 2022 with the club in relegation trouble and was central to their Champions League qualifications in 2023 and 2025
- Newcastle slipped to 12th in the Premier League last season, a sharp reversal from the cup-winning, European-qualifying campaign that preceded it
- Guimaraes said Newcastle 'means so much' to him but that he was 'ready for a new challenge' for himself and his family; Newcastle said they wished him well
Why it matters: Arsenal have landed a proven Premier League midfield engine and former Newcastle captain for £75m, but the fee underlines how far Newcastle have fallen in 12 months — from EFL Cup winners and Champions League qualifiers to a 12th-place finish that triggered their talismanic skipper's departure mid-pre-season.
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