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.
Man Utd could have secured Bruno Fernandes transfer 'for £50m less' after coronavirus
mirror.co.ukManchester United could have paid £50million less for Bruno Fernandes had they waited until the summer transfer window, says Sporting Lisbon president Frederico Varandas.
Fernandes joined United from Sporting for £68m in January, having been on the Premier League club's radar for some time. But the coronavirus pandemic has hit football's finances hard, and it is widely expected that clubs won't be able to afford the big-money transfers that have been commonplace in recent years.
And now Varandas has admitted that Sporting might have had to part with Fernandes for as little as £17m had they held onto their captain until the end of the season. "The crisis caused by Covid-19 harms the European football industry in general," Varandas told
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