Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes (born 8 September 1994) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Primeira Liga club Sporting CP and the Portugal national team as a midfielder. Fernandes started his career at Serie B side Novara Calcio and soon featured for Udinese and Sampdoria in Serie A.
In 2017, he signed with Sporting CP where he established himself as one of the best players in the Primeira Liga. He was named the LPFP Primeira Liga Player of the Year in both 2017–18 and 2018–19. In the latter season, he also helped Sporting win the Taça de Portugal. A senior international since 2017, Fernandes represented Portugal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Bruno Fernandes details what Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said to him before Man Utd substitution
dailystar.co.ukBruno Fernandes has explained what Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told him as the Manchester United star was substituted against Tottenham.
United were thrashed 6-1 in their last Premier League game despite Fernandes putting them ahead against Spurs. The Portuguese star, who has impressed while away on international duty, was then brought off at half-time with the Red Devils already 4-1 down.
Anthony Martial had been sent off with Solskjaer’s side looking a shambles at the back as the likes of Harry Kane and Son Heung-min ripped through them at Old Trafford.
And Fernandes has revealed Solskjaer told him the game was lost and that rest was more important. “I was replaced at half-time, it is true, by technical option,” Fernandes told Sport TV after.
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