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.
Get the latest United transfer window updates, pre-season news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Bruno Fernandes has praised Anthony Elanga for the professional attitude he has shown in training since his Manchester United breakthrough.
Elanga, 19, has been one of the stars of pre-season for United this summer playing in all three first-team friendly matches and scoring in two of them.
The Swede is attracting plenty of loan interest in the final month of the summer transfer window, leaving Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with a big decision to make regarding his young forward's future.
Fernandes has been hugely impressed with the progress of the youngster, naming Elanga and James Garner as two of the most exciting
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