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.
straight to your inbox every day for freeDiallo involvement?There will have been a large section of the Manchester United fanbase who felt disappointed with the paucity of January arrivals at the club.
Despite the mitigating factors of a pandemic-affected window, and the fact the mid-season market rarely offers such opportunities as last year’s one-in-a-million Bruno Fernandes deal, some United fans will still have wanted more.Amad Diallo was the sole signing, and even his arrival from Atalanta was agreed back in October.Yet you won’t find many who watched Diallo’s Under-23s debut — against Liverpool on Saturday — complaining about the addition of the Ivorian.
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