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 United transfer latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has hit back at criticism from former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand over Cristiano Ronaldo's touchline role in the defeat to Young Boys.
Shortly after coming off at the same time as Bruno Fernandes, Ronaldo and his Portuguese teammate appeared on the touchline next to Solskjaer.
Ferdinand said he would have told Ronaldo to "sit down", but the United manager played the incident down. The double substitution came in the 72nd minute and Solskjaer said both players reacted angrily to a challenge from Christopher Martins on Nemanja Matic and were complaining about the referee's leniency, which
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