When a smiling Bruno Guimarães posed thumbs up over his Newcastle United contract the reaction from the world of soccer was surprise. Considered one of the most promising deep-lying players in Europe, he'd been linked to giants like Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid. It would be wrong to suggest Guimarães was joining anything other than a team in trouble, languishing in the Premier League relegation zone; the Magpies required the Brazilian to demonstrate his quality immediately.