‘AMAZING’: DAVID GINOLA WOWED BY 25-YEAR-OLD AS NEWCASTLE SECURE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

David Ginola has spoken highly about Bruno Guimaraes after Newcastle United booked their Champions League ticket for next season.

Eddie Howe’s side recorded a point at home to relegation-threatened Leicester City on Monday night, which all but confirmed their top-four finish.

Newcastle legend Ginola thinks Bruno Guimaraes has been at the heart of that and he is the one who is ‘at the start of all the different moves’.

Whilst Newcastle’s aim was to get back into the Champions League and try to end their long-awaited trophy drought, for the long-run under their new Saudi-led ownership.

Not many predicted a return to Europe’s elite competition to come in Howe’s first full season in charge.

A big reason behind all of that has been the club’s transfer business, with Ginola lauding a player that arrived when they were in the middle of a relegation battle.

“He has been an amazing player,” said Ginola. “He is at the start of all the different moves.

“I think he has the vision, the pace, he can keep the ball and hold the ball when the team is struggling. That’s the most important thing.”

BRUNO GUIMARAES IS A CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PLAYER
If anyone in the Newcastle squad already had the skill set to play against the best of the best, then it’s their box-to-box creator in the middle of the park – although, Michael Owen was keen to put Nick Pope in his Team of the Season.

A powerful figure in midfield, Guimaraes has the quality to pick up the ball in difficult places and play those passes that defenders hate.

The Brazil international brings Newcastle’s forward line alive, which is something because when the likes of Alexander Isak, Callum Wilson and Miguel Almiron start to cook, then it sparks danger for the opposition.