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 has insisted that he doesn't want to see Juan Mata leave Manchester United anytime soon after telling supporters that he wants to take the shirt number of the veteran midfielder at some point in the future.
Fernandes wore No 8 for each of this three seasons in Portugal with Sporting Lisbon, but was forced to take 18 after moving to Old Trafford because the iconic shirt number had worn by Mata since his move from Chelsea in 2014.
However, Mata is now entering the final few months of his contract at United as he approaches his 34th birthday, which suggests that a change of shirt number is on the cards for Portugal international Fernandes over the coming months.As part of a question and answer session on Twitter following the signing of his new contract, Fernandes was asked whether he would like to wear the No.
8 shirt at United in the future.To which he replied: "I hope to get it one day...but for now I hope to have my brother @juanmata8 close to me."The update on shirt preference came after United fans rejoiced at news of his extended deal, which could keep him at the club until the summer of 2027. HAVE YOUR SAY!
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