Bruno Guimaraes insists his dream is to win the Premier League with Newcastle United. The Brazilian's comments come one week after co-owner Amanda Staveley made the confident statement that the north east outfit would in fact be crowned English top flight champions one day, as well as winning the Champions League.
Guimaraes, who was presented with the North East FWA Player of the Year award for 2022 on Sunday evening, has had an incredible impact since arriving on Tyneside little over 12 months ago. The midfielder has consistently spoken of wanting to be a part of Newcastle's ascent to the top and reaffirmed that desire when speaking to award sponsors William Hill over the weekend.
“My dream while I’m at Newcastle, because I know what it would mean for the fans, is to win the Premier League title here,” Guimarães said at the FWA North East Awards.
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“That is my ambition with the club, plus to play in the Champions League. We need to dream big things because the club deserve it, the fans deserve a title. Fans are growing up having never seen Newcastle become champions and my goal while I’m here is to help the club win that title.”
Newcastle are trying to re-find their pre-World Cup form after suffering a rare blip of late. The Magpies have not won a league game since mid-January and have dropped to sixth in the Premier League table after Liverpool's hammering of Manchester United on Sunday.
Last month's Carabao Cup defeat still stings for Newcastle but Guimaraes wants his team-mates to channel that energy into putting things right by qualifying for the Champions League this season. He insists the entire squad is committed to finishing in the top-four come May.
“The League Cup final loss was of course very disappointing,” he added. “When you get to a final everybody wants to win, and when this doesn’t happen, sometimes you cannot hang your head down for too long, you need to treat the experience as an inspiration and look forwards.
“I think Newcastle need that adaption, we need to start getting in more finals regularly and to win one. But this defeat, we should use it to give us the energy to get into the Champions League. It’s my goal here to finish in the top four this season, and it’s the goal of the whole team.
“Newcastle not having any other involvement in cup competitions should help us in the league for the rest of the season, unlike some of our rivals. But everybody wants to be playing European football, and Newcastle need to be playing in it again next season. So of course our goal is to make sure we get Champions League football for next year.”
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