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.
Get the United transfer latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba is on course to smash the Premier League assist record this season after registering his sixth and seventh assists of the season against Newcastle.
The Reds cruised to a 4-1 win over the Magpies thanks to a brace from debutant Cristiano Ronaldo plus fine strikes by Bruno Fernandes and Jesse Lingard late on.
It was Pogba who created the latter two strikes to move himself onto seven assists for the season in just four appearances. With his two assists, Pogba became the first player in history to reach seven assists in the first four games of the season while also becoming the player
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