Joelinton drops Guimaraes transfer hint as Newcastle continue pre-season preparations

Newcastle midfielder Joelinton says Bruno Guimaraes wants to enactment astatine nan nine amid reports linking him distant from Tyneside.

Premier League champions Manchester City are 1 nine said to beryllium willing successful nan Brazilian, who has 4 years near connected his contract.

Joelinton was not portion of Brazil’s Copa America squad this summertime but says he has spoken to his home and world team-mate.

He said: “I dream he stays. I cognize him, he loves nan nine arsenic well. He loves nan fans, he enjoys his life successful Newcastle United.

“He’s gladsome to beryllium location for his life arsenic good arsenic football. Newcastle and nan nine want him to beryllium happy and enactment for galore years.

“I deliberation he’s going to stay. He tells maine he’s going to travel backmost adjacent week and get fresh for nan season.”

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Joelinton precocious signed a caller statement pinch nan Magpies, locking him down astatine St. James’ Park until 2028, nan aforesaid twelvemonth Guimaraes’ statement expires.

But nan 27-year-old is not reasoning astir nan extremity of his travel pinch Newcastle and is only concerned astir achieving occurrence pinch Eddie Howe, who has been linked pinch nan England job.

He added: “We person awesome expectations. We person precocious expectations. We person large goals, we want to beryllium better. We want to compete pinch nan best. I want to beryllium backmost successful a last again.

“We want to beryllium a competitory team. That’s what you want, that’s what you activity for. We will hopefully person a bully season.

“If I do a bully occupation astatine Newcastle I person a chance to spell to nan nationalist team. So I effort to deliberation 1 time astatine a clip and effort to thief my squad earlier nan World Cup.

“Hopefully he [Howe] will enactment for galore years. He’s a awesome coach and I cognize he tin return america to nan adjacent level. Of people we want him to enactment present for arsenic agelong arsenic possible. We want to enactment pinch him.”