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.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is starting to gather himself a rather impressive record in the transfer market. If the Manchester United signings - and subsequent impacts - of Harry Maguire, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and to a slightly lesser extent Daniel James weren't impressive enough, then January saw Solskjaer double down on his ability to bring in the right players.
Bruno Fernandes to United was seemingly the transfer saga that would never end, but the Old Trafford club eventually landed their man from Sporting Lisbon after negotiating the price down to an initial £47million fee.
Odion Ighalo was a loan deal much criticised by many, but both the on-loan Shanghai Shenhua man and Fernandes have started like a dream under Solskjaer.
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