{"id":21144,"date":"2026-07-25T01:44:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=21144"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:44:52","slug":"chelsea-stance-on-signing-bruno-guimaraes-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=21144","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea stance on signing Bruno Guimaraes revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewsArticle\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<h6>News<span> \u00bb <\/span>Premier League news<span> \u00bb <\/span>Arsenal news<\/h6>\n<p class=\"articletimestamp\">July 24, 2026 19:46 GMT (UK), by <!-- Author Start -->Sri Aswin<!-- Author End -->\n<\/p>\n<h6>View Arsenal summer 2026 transfer targets<\/h6>\n<div style=\"float:right\">\n<figure>\n<p class=\"article_image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyefootball.com\/imghold\/largestBruno_Guimaraes_new.jpeg\" title=\"Bruno Guimaraes news\" alt=\"Bruno Guimaraes news\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p><figcaption><em itemprop=\"articleSection\">Guimaraes poised to join Arsenal<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:18px; width:450px;\">\n<div style=\"display:inline; border:0px; padding-left:2px; padding-top:3px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyefootball.com\/images\/football_transfer_centre.png\" title=\"Football Transfer Centre\" alt=\"Football Transfer Centre\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size:16px\">\n<strong>Chelsea are not trying to sign Arsenal target and Newcastle United midfielder <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Bruno Guimaraes<\/span><\/span>  this summer, according to <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Alex Crook<\/span><\/span>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><!-- responsive_ad --><\/p>\n<p>The Blues recently hijacked the Gunners&#8217; pursuit of Aston Villa winger <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Morgan Rogers<\/span><\/span>. The Englishman was touted to join Arsenal, but Chelsea beat them to his signature by paying a club-record\u00a0\u00a3117m.<\/p>\n<p>There have been claims that Chelsea could look to sign Guimaraes too, but Crook reports that the Blues are not planning to do anything like that.<\/p>\n<p>There is an expectation among top Premier League clubs that the Brazilian will end up at Arsenal, having already agreed on personal terms.<\/p>\n<p>Guimaraes has already informed the Magpies that he wishes to join the Gunners and he is prepared to give up on loyalty bonuses as well.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are prepared to spend\u00a0\u00a370m on the 28-year-old, but the Tyneside outfit are eyeing between\u00a0\u00a380-85m for the former Lyon man.<\/p>\n<p>Guimaraes handing in a transfer request would mean giving up on bonuses, and this could speed up his move to Arsenal in the near future.<br \/><!-- Article End --><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!-- newadv --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\nvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)(0);\nif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\njs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\njs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\nfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News \u00bb Premier League news \u00bb Arsenal news July 24, 2026 19:46 GMT (UK), by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}