Eddie Howe reveals £100m Bruno Guimarães release clause ends in June

• Newcastle manager wants to build team around midfielder
• PSG and both Manchester clubs admire Brazil international

Eddie Howe has revealed that Bruno Guimarães’s £100m release clause expires in the final days of June and hopes that will save Newcastle from a summer of transfer speculation centred on their Brazil midfielder.

“Having that was well planned and structured in the sense that there’s a finish point,” said Newcastle’s manager, who almost certainly has Dan Ashworth, the Manchester United-bound sporting director, to thank for inserting the cutoff when Guimarães’s contract was renegotiated last October. “We don’t want a summer of speculation. I don’t think that would be healthy for the player or for us.”