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.
Get the latest United transfer window updates, pre-season news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Diogo Dalot and Donny van de Beek will be involved in Manchester United's pre-season friendly against Brentford on Wednesday, but the game will come too soon for Dean Henderson and Bruno Fernandes.
Dalot and Van de Beek have been back at training at Carrington since Monday, with Van de Beek working with fitness and sports science staff as well last week.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has confirmed both will be on the bench against the Bees and they will be expected to make their first appearance of pre-season against the Premier League new boys.
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