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 have four players to convince Bruno Fernandes of squad's winning mentality
manchestereveningnews.co.ukstraight to your inbox every day for freeOle Gunnar Solskjaer insists he would be open to moving for an influential mid-season target in the mould of Bruno Fernandes but does not expect Manchester United to pull off such a coup two years running.After much deliberation, United eventually completed the signing of Fernandes, 26, from Sporting Lisbon in a £67.6million deal last January and they did not lose a Premier League game for the rest of the season following the Portuguese's arrival.Fernandes has become the benchmark of modern mid-season signings but the nadir of United's recruitment since Sir Alex Ferguson retired was the January 2018 acquisition of the worn out Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal in a swap deal involving Henrikh.
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