The big mercato soap opera of the week has just found its culmination. OL and Newcastle reached a definitive agreement this Friday morning for the transfer of Bruno Guimaraes. As indicated Thursday on the L’Équipe website, the amount of the operation should be around €50 million, since the Magpies will pay €42.5 million immediately to OL, together with €8 million in bonuses which relate mainly to the stay in the Premier League. This would make it the third biggest transfer in the history of the Lyon club.
As announced in our columns, a representative of Newcastle arrives this Friday in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where Bruno Guimaraes landed last night with the Seleçao, who played Thursday evening in Ecuador (1-1). This English leader will welcome the 24-year-old midfielder with his agents, and the medical visit will be held in the afternoon. The information of the formalization of the transfer should then intervene in the evening, or Saturday at the latest.