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 wowed Man Utd staff and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with debut incident
dailystar.co.ukBruno Fernandes impressed Manchester United coaches and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer just 13 minutes into his debut. United finally landed their star man from Sporting Lisbon in January having failed to sign him last summer.
The Portuguese has wasted no time in finding his feet at Old Trafford having already found the net three times. But it was an incident on his United debut against Wolves that left United staff on the bench with smiles on their faces, according to Bleacher Report.
Just 13 minutes into his debut at Old Trafford, Fernandes showed his enthusiasm by going in hard for 50/50 tackle with Portuguese team-mate Joao Moutinho.
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