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 urged to rotate Bruno Fernandes as midfielder "isn’t firing"
mirror.co.ukOle Gunnar Solskjaer has been urged to consider rotating his midfield amid Bruno Fernandes' sub-standard form. The Portuguese star was pivotal in United's charge to a third-place finish at the end of last season but has failed to hit the same heights so far in this campaign, United moved to add talented youngster Donny van de Beek to their ranks in the summer transfer window, but the Dutchman is yet to start a Premier League game since his arrival.
Now former Man Utd winger Luke Chadwick feels the time could be right to give Fernandes a breather. "Signing Van de Beek does allow a little bit of rotation," Chadwick told . "Bruno Fernandes isn’t firing as much and it was always going to be tough for him to stay at the same standard as last
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