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Incoming Newcastle United head coach Matthias Jaissle is expected to sit down with Bruno Guimarães at the club's training camp next week, indicating the Magpies still hold some hope of convincing him to abandon his push for a move to Arsenal.
The Gunners are understood to have seen two bids for Guimarães turned down already, yet remain willing to go as high as $107.5 million (£80 million) after opening with a lowball offer. This week, Arsenal have been characterized as "increasingly confident" a deal will be struck, with the player's eagerness to swap northeast England for the capital being an open secret.
For the time being, however, he remains on Newcastle's books. According to the Chronicle, Newcastle's local paper, Guimarães did not join the rest of the squad on their trip to a training camp in Spain. The players, now without outgoing manager Eddie Howe, departed by plane on Friday.
The unsettled club skipper is instead expected to arrive on Sunday. Newcastle granted Guimarães some scheduling flexibility following the World Cup, and it appears he intends to make use of a few additional days off.
Given the choice of flying with his teammates on Friday — which would have required him to first return to England from a South American vacation — or traveling directly from South America to Spain two days later, Guimarães predictably chose the latter.
Once he arrives in Spain, the Chronicle report notes he will have a conversation with Jaissle.
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The German tactician is the man selected to succeed Howe at St James' Park. Howe officially departed on Friday, following reports of his imminent resignation earlier in the week, describing his tenure as Newcastle manager as the "privilege of my lifetime." He stated he poured his "life, heart and soul into the club" over five years and now plans to step away from management entirely.
Guimarães was a close ally of Howe and, in a farewell post on Instagram, referred to his former boss as the "king of this club" and credited him for "making me a better player."
According to Sky Sports, Newcastle will pay $12.8 million (£9.5 million) in compensation to secure Jaissle. That fee will release him from his contract with Saudi Pro League side Al Ahli, with whom he claimed back-to-back AFC Champions League Elite titles in 2024–25 and 2025–26.
Persuading Guimarães to remain at the club represents a monumental opening challenge for Jaissle, who is anticipated to be officially appointed on Saturday ahead of his meeting with the Brazilian midfielder on Monday.
Should Jaissle fail — and he may well be attempting to close the stable door long after the horse has bolted, even if Guimarães is handling the situation far more gracefully than Alexander Isak ever did last summer — a transfer to Arsenal will almost certainly become unavoidable.