Bruno Guimarães completes £75m Arsenal transfer: ‘I wanted a brand new problem’ | Arsenal

Bruno Guimarães says he “wanted a brand new problem in my life” after becoming a member of Arsenal from Newcastle for £75m and has focused successful trophies. Guimarães is known to have signed a four-year contract that comprises an extra one-year possibility after Newcastle reluctantly agreed to promote their captain.

The 28-year-old, who captained Newcastle to their first trophy since 1955 after they gained the Carabao Cup final 12 months, had made it clear that he needed to affix the Premier League champions after assembly the membership’s new supervisor, Matthias Jaissle, this week.

Arsenal have beforehand proven an curiosity in signing Guimarães on two events – in 2020 when he was taking part in for Athletico Paranaense in Brazil after which 18 months later when he was at Lyon and went on to maneuver to the north-east. However the Brazil midfielder stated he needed to affix Arsenal after his first assembly with Mikel Arerta and the sporting director, Andrea Berta.

“I used to be excited. I simply felt inside me that I want a brand new problem in my life and to be an Arsenal participant goes to be an thrilling problem in my life,” he informed Arsenal’s web site. “After taking part in two World Cups, I’m on the level of my life, I want a problem like this. I wish to win trophies, I wish to make historical past and I believe I’m in the precise place to do it.

“I’m so excited to start out. We’ve robust video games to play this season, so the squad goes to be very, essential and I’m hopeful we are able to obtain our goals.”

The arrival of Guimarães considerably boosts the midfield choices obtainable to Arteta, who now has a formidable squad that comprises Declan Rice, Martin Ødegaard, Martin Zubimendi, Mikel Merino and Myles Lewis-Skelly.

“We’re additional strengthening the center of our group,” stated Berta. “As we’ve all seen, Bruno can play as a defensive midfielder and as a box-to-box participant. He combines high quality with amount and has offered targets and assists for his group yearly. Bruno will permit Mikel to additional develop our taking part in type and also will enhance our inside competitiveness, which is crucial for sustaining the requirements required after we are aiming to win main trophies.”

Guimarães revealed he has already acquired a message from Rice welcoming him to Arsenal that stated “come right here and please no extra fights, now we’re mates”. “I used to be completely happy he messaged me, however the midfield we’ve right here, is without doubt one of the greatest in Europe,” stated Guimarães. “Everyone seems to be a tremendous participant. I’m so excited to start out chatting and play, and know the gamers very, very effectively,”

Guimarães additionally launched an announcement to Newcastle. He stated: “I fell in love with this place. I actually imply that. From my first day, the supporters, my teammates, Eddie [Howe] and the workers, and everybody linked with the membership made me and my household really feel at residence.

“This is without doubt one of the hardest selections of my life. Once I arrived, the membership was in a difficult place and I’m extremely happy with what we achieved collectively. I thank PIF, our chair, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, and Jamie Reuben for all the pieces they’ve carried out for me and for this soccer membership. I additionally wish to say thanks to David [Hopkinson, the Newcastle CEO] and Ross [Wilson, Newcastle’s sporting director] for the large respect to me all through this course of. They did all the pieces they may to maintain me at Newcastle, and I’m very grateful for our time collectively.”

On Friday, Wilson stated they’d no possibility however to permit Guimarães to go away. “What we needed to weigh up was, very respectfully from Bruno along with his behaviour in the direction of us, very emotionally as effectively, he successfully informed us he needed to go away,” he stated.

“That doesn’t imply he can go, however it actually performs an element in what our pondering is after we hit a sure vary of quantity. There’s no half in saying it was a part of our technique and was in our pondering this summer season – it wasn’t. However we’ve bought to be versatile and react to issues that occur.”