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.
Bruno Fernandes could be the player that gets Ole Gunnar Solskjaer relieved of his duties as Manchester United manager, Ian Wright believes.
Solskjaer, 47, is under increasing pressure at Old Trafford following back-to-back defeats to Arsenal and Istanbul Basaksehir.
The consecutive losses came after impressive wins over Newcastle, Paris Saint-Germain and RB Leipzig. Wright, like many others, believes Solskjaer's future at Old Trafford is up in the air and reckons "ambitious players" like Fernandes could soon start to vocalise their discontent if results on the pitch don't change.
During the latest episode of BBC Radio 5 Live’s 'Kelly & Wrighty Show', the former Arsenal man said: “What you’ll find is, especially the ambitious players
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