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.
straight to your inbox After agreeing a £40.1million deal with Ajax for midfielder Donny van de Beek, the 23-year-old is closing in on a move to Manchester United, with personal terms already agreed and a medical completed on Monday, in what will be United's first signing of the summer transfer window.
The Dutch midfielder will compete with Fred, Nemanja Matic, Bruno Fernandes, Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard, Andreas Pereira and Scott McTominay for a place in the United midfield.Van de Beek is most likely to line up alongside Pogba in a 4-2-3-1 formation in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's strongest eleven, with Bruno Fernandes playing as an attacking midfielder.
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