In this winter's transfer window, the £320 billion super tycoon Newcastle spent nearly £100 million to reinforce - Trippier, Guimarães, Chris Wood, Dan Bourne, Taggart and other strong reinforcements in place. After the winter window, Newcastle remained unbeaten with 6 wins and 2 draws in the 8-round Premier League, scoring 20 points and climbing all the way up from the relegation zone.
In the last round, Newcastle scored 34 points after beating Wolves 1-0 at St James' Park, and relegation has no worries. When Newcastle changed hands, the Premier League teams boasted that they would never let their players go to Newcastle, and even threatened to beat Newcastle back to the Championship.
However, Newcastle's "banknote ability" was only slightly improved, and the Premier League teams could not be overwhelmed and lost. Newcastle has a lot of money, but it is not stupid, this winter window of reinforcements is aimed at relegation, and Trippier, Chris Wood, Dan -Shuan's contracts are all 2 and a half years, only spent 41 million pounds (35 million pounds + 6 million pounds float) from Ligue 1 giants Lyon to bring Brazilian midfielder Guimarães, Newcastle gave a 4 and a half year contract.
Guimarães is considered the most promising attacking midfielder in football today, and he is one of only two players in the top five leagues this season who can achieve 35+ chances, 35+ tackles and 35+ turnovers.
Obviously, Guimarães is Newcastle's first step towards superstarity.
After Guimarães joined, manager Eddie Howe did not immediately entrust him with heavy responsibilities, but let him slowly feel and adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League, until in the make-up match against Southampton, Guimarães started in the Premier League for the first time.
This belated start turned into a stunning conquest, and after Chris Wood equalized, the Brazilian midfielder used a scorpion swing in the second half to reverse the score for Newcastle, leaving the Saints fans at St. Mary's Stadium into an incredible silence, but driving Newcastle fans from afar into madness.
After this battle, Guimarães gradually sat in the main position, and Newcastle's midfielder showed good strength under his dispatch. With him starting, Newcastle only lost 0-1 to Chelsea, while he didn't start and Newcastle lost 1-5 to Tottenham. When the relegation goal has been achieved, Eddie Howe also has more opportunities to experiment for the future.
In this round, Newcastle sits at St James's Park to meet the visiting Leicester City. The Blue Foxes, despite their poor ranking this season, are the best touchstones to test the Magpies' current roster, and this is also an opportunity for Eddie Howe to test the lineup and plan for next season.
Eddie Howe gave up a 4-3-3 attacking formation, and Guimarães made his debut to try to wrench the wrist head-on with Rogers. But before the Magpies' attack could take effect, they were attacked by the Blue Foxes, and Lukman's goal left the Magpies with a blow, but St. James' Park did not wait long, and Guimarães helped the Magpies equalize with his excellent personal skills and keen sense of smell in front of goal.
It was another goal that highlighted Guimarães' talent and spirituality. He turned around in the penalty area and shot backwards, the ball was saved by Schmeichel, but the force of the ball was too great, Schmeichel did not control the ball, just at the moment when the ball bounced under Schmeichel's crotch, Guimarães, who fell to the ground, picked it up, and then poked again, and the ball rolled from Schmeichel's crotch into the net.
The VAR ruled the goal valid and St James' Park was buzzing with joy.
After that, the game was stuck in a stalemate, with the Magpies attacking and the Blue Foxes defending, and the two sides were inseparable. The 1-1 score also remained until the end of regular time, and just when people thought the match would end in a draw, In the last minute of injury time, Newcastle launched the last wave of attacks.
Substitute Wilcock ran wild with the ball and forced a shot into the box, but his shot hit the chasing Almaty's leg and bounced into the middle, And Guimarães rushed to the top, and a beautiful fish jumped to the top and smashed the ball into the goal guarded by Schmeichel.
Read the second kill! St. James's Park boiled over, Guimarães became the number one contributor to the Newcastle reversal, and this exciting victory undoubtedly ignited the best wishes in the hearts of every Newcastle fan.
It is said that Newcastle's transfer budget in the summer window this year is as high as 200 million pounds, this "banknote ability" is still increasing, the Premier League teams, can they still hold it?