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.
Nani explains that he told Bruno Fernandes to snub Man City in favour of Man Utd transfer
dailystar.co.ukNani told Bruno Fernandes that he should snub Manchester City in favour of a move to Manchester United when the playmaker was considering leaving Sporting Lisbon.
Fernandes was linked with an Old Trafford move last summer but the £68m deal was eventually reached in January this year. The Portugal international has hit the ground running, scoring three times in his first United games under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
And Nani, who was Fernandes' team-mate at Sporting, says he told the 25-year-old in no uncertain terms that his future lay at United and not Premier League champions City. "As soon as I saw the news, the possibilities, I told him, ‘Don’t choose Manchester City, don’t choose any other team.
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