{"id":732778,"date":"2026-08-09T19:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732778\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T19:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:56:17","slug":"bruno-guimaraes-midfielder-can-help-arsenal-reach-next-level-says-mikel-arteta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732778\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Guimaraes: Midfielder can help Arsenal reach next level, says Mikel Arteta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manager Mikel Arteta said the signing of Bruno Guimaraes will “ignite something different” in Arsenal<\/a> and hinted that the Gunners are not done with their summer transfer activity. <\/p>\n

Guimaraes’ arrival for \u00a375m from Newcastle United<\/a> was officially announced on Saturday and the 28-year-old midfielder was introduced to the fans inside Emirates Stadium before Sunday’s match against Borussia Dortmund. <\/p>\n

Guimaraes was not included in the matchday squad for the 3-2 loss to Dortmund<\/a> but is likely to be involved in the game against Como on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Arteta was quick to explain why he was so keen to bring the Brazilian to north London.<\/p>\n

“I think he describes himself as a warrior,” he said. “I think he’s a warrior with a tremendous quality as well and intuition and leadership and charisma that is going to help us, that is going to really ignite something different in the team.<\/p>\n

“I’m delighted to have him. We see very clearly – especially the energy that he brought immediately to the training ground – the hunger, the desire to come here and create a big history at the club. That’s the ambition that we need. <\/p>\n

“We want to go to the next level and are very, very much convinced that we’re going to need players with such a personality, desire and character to push everybody inside the organisation to go even higher.”<\/p>\n

The signing of Guimaraes means Arteta now has plenty of choice in midfield with Declan Rice, Martin Odegaard, Martin Zubimendi, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Ethan Nwaneri, Eberechi Eze and Mikel Merino all options in the middle of the pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manager Mikel Arteta said the signing of Bruno Guimaraes will “ignite something different” in Arsenal and hinted that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-732778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}