Man of the moment Bruno Guimaraes has been told he can achieve all his football dreams at St James' Park - and does not have any escape clauses in his contract that would allow Real Madrid to get their long-term target.
United chiefs are protected from losing their prize asset after his sparkling display had the world's football media talking about Bruno this weekend. OK, it was merely a solid win over Brentford and we are only nine games in.
But the word around the European football circuit is that elite clubs are now rueing the fact they did not snare Bruno from Lyon last January when he suddenly became available. United's rapid movement in the window - spearheaded by head of recruitment Steve Nickson and his South American connections - saw Newcastle essentially jump the queue and catch Juventus, Real Madrid and Paris St-Germain napping.
