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.
Manchester United star Bruno Fernandes has come under fire from fans after stats showed he gave the ball away 34 times in the 2-1 defeat to Istanbul Basaksehir.
More often than not since joining United in January, Fernandes has been the star man, providing creativity and creating chances for team-mates.
But he was anonymous in Sunday's defeat to Arsenal and in Turkey last night he was unable to inspire the team to a comeback.
Playing in his usual No 10 position, Fernandes created zero chances, registered just one shot on target, had a 73.8 per cent pass accuracy and lost possession 34 times.Despite a clearly below-par performance, United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer kept Fernandes on for the 90 minutes but fans on social media were far from.
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