Bruno Guimarães completes £75m Arsenal move: ‘I needed a new challenge’

<ul><li><p>Player seals four-year deal after Newcastle’s reluctant sale</p></li><li><p>‘I want to win trophies and I’m in the right place to do it’</p></li></ul><p>Bruno Guimarães says he “needed a new challenge in my life” after joining Arsenal from Newcastle for £75m and has targeted trophies in north London.</p><p>Guimarães is understood to have signed a four-year contract at the Emirates that contains a further one-year option <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/aug/03/premier-league-transfer-newcastle-reject-first-bid-arsenal-bruno-guimaraes">after Newcastle reluctantly agreed to sell their captain</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/aug/08/arsenal-transfer-bruno-guimaraes-newcastle-football">Continue reading...</a>