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 picks ideal Man Utd midfield - and backs himself to score in it
mirror.co.ukBruno Fernandes says he'd love to play in a midfield alongside Manchester United legends Roy Keane and Paul Scholes, and thinks that the trio would work perfectly together.
The Portuguese star has impressed United fans in his short Old Trafford career to date, and picked up the Premier League Player of the Month award for February shortly before the suspension of football.
He's clearly well aware of his United history too, and so when he was asked who he preferred between Keane and Scholes by a United fan in a Q&A on the club website, he chose not to pick one over the other and instead started to imagine what it would be like to play with both.
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