Newcastle and Lyon have reached an agreement over the signing of the Brazil international Bruno Guimarães. The fee for the defensive midfielder will be €40m (£33.3m) plus €8m (£6.7m) in bonuses.
Guimarães will take a medical when he returns to Brazil from Ecuador, where he is with his national team for Thursday’s World Cup qualifier. Other clubs, including Arsenal and Juventus, had hoped to buy Guimarães at the end of the season but Newcastle have got in ahead of them. The player joined Lyon in January 2020 from the Brazilian club Athletico Paranaense.
