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 need to add consistency and creativity if they are to challenge towards the top end of the Premier League next season.
That is the view of former Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson, who has backed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men to make the necessary improvements.
The Red Devils are way off runway league leaders Liverpool this season but were unbeaten in 12 games in all competitions before the coronavirus pandemic saw all football postponed.
Their recent improvements was in large part to new signing Bruno Fernandes, who joined from Sporting Lisbon in the January transfer window.
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