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.
Greggs have trolled Bruno Fernandes on social media with a Festive Bake comparison to the Manchester United midfielder. The Portugal international was savaged by the bakery chain on Twitter as part of a thread they posted on Friday morning titled: "Greggs menu as Premier League footballers."Posting a side by side image of their Festive Bake item and Fernandes, the tweet read: “Festive Bake & Bruno Fernandes.
Sensational for a few weeks but then disappears.”READ MORE: Park Ji-sung thought he was part of 'joke' when Alex Ferguson declared Man Utd interestThe novelty list also included Erling Haaland as a sausage roll, Jack Grealish as a pink jammie doughnut and Bruno Guimaraes as a Yum Yum.Fernandes' form and performances have come under fire more often in the last year after his impressive start to life in England having signed for United from Sporting Lisbon in January 2020 for just under £57million.Following his arrival at Old Trafford, Fernandes scored 12 goals and provided eight assists in 22 appearances through to the end of the 2019/20 season.
He also won the Premier League player of the month award in February 2020 before winning it three more times before the end of the year.
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