£40m Newcastle player pictured holding different club’s shirt ahead of national team training

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Newcastle United star Bruno Guimaraes has been ‘unveiled’ by Fluminense as he trains with the club ahead of International duty.

In a cheeky Instagram post, Brazilian club Fluminense have posted an image of Bruno Guimaraes in their full training kit holding up a shirt with “Bruno G. 39” printed on the back. The caption then explains how Bruno is merely training with the Rio de Janeiro-based side ahead of linking up with the Brazil national squad. Much to the relief of Newcastle fans everywhere.

The caption read: “The midfielder, Bruno Guimaraes is training at CT Carlos Castilho to maintain physical shape, with an eye on the commitments with the National Team!” Although Instagram’s in-built translation refers to Bruno as a steering wheel, which is odd.

Bruno Guimaraes is training with Fluminense ahead of linking up with Brazil

It was certainly a heart-stopping moment when it popped up Newcastle fans’ Instagram feeds, seeing one of our most popular players holding another club’s shirt with his name on the back.

Bruno has been suffering with an ankle niggle for a while and it’s likely that if he took any kind of break in training it would seize up which would rule him out of representing his country alongside his club teammate and debutant Joelinton (if he’s selected for first-team action).

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Following the end of the season Bruno did clarify that his ankle injury wouldn’t need surgery just a rest, but he will play through it for a bit longer when Brazil take on Guinea and Senegal later this month.

As far as seeing him holding up another club’s shirt with his name on for real, that’s extremely unlikely to happen. The £40million signing from Lyon has declared his love for the club and the city on numerous occasions and is currently in talks to become Newcastle’s all-time highest earner with a £200,000-a-week contract offer on the table.

Still, don’t scare us like that again, Bruno, we’ve been hurt too many times before.