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 believed Manchester United's squad needed a huge overhaul when he took the reins from previous boss Jose Mourinho in December 2018.
Since taking over from Mourinho, who is now under pressure as manager of Tottenham, Solskjaer has got binned no less than nine players and signed four permanently.
The Norwegian took some flack for showing Alexis Sanchez and Romeu Lukaku the Old Trafford exit door, but his surprise loan signing of Odion Ighalo has paid off thus far.
Bruno Fernandes, in particular, looks to have been an inspired signing with the creative midfielder perfectly filling the void that existed in Mourinho's squad. “I felt a lot needed to be changed,” said Solskjaer. “We've signed four players, lost quite a few and
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