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.
Liverpool, Real Madrid, Manchester United and England striker has been left baffled by the growing obsession with assists, saying that measuring them as equal is "b*******".
That caught the eye of former Arsenal, Barcelona and Chelsea playmaker Fabregas, who has explained how setting up a goal can sometimes be twice as hard as the finish.Their conversation has got plenty of attention on Twitter, with the likes of Bruno Fernandes and Kevin De Bruyne unlikely to agree having managed 11 each so far this season.
He wrote on Twitter: "People are genuinely giving as much credit to a players number of assists as they do to number of goals nowadays. "Literally 1 in 10 goals are genuine assists yet someone who plays a 5 yard ball to his mate who.
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