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.
Raphael Varane is already studying how to improve Manchester United
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the latest United transfer window updates, pre-season news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free In 2011, Raphael Varane joined Real Madrid and Phil Jones joined Manchester United.
Ten years on, Raphael Varane is joining Manchester United and Phil Jones is, well, not joining Real Madrid. United could come full circle if Varane is assigned Jones's number.
He should be, even if it is not a traditional centre half's number. Six is and that could be available soon. When Jones last played for United the club had not signed Bruno Fernandes.
He has been sidelined for over a year with a knee injury and, unfortunately, is as unsellable as he is unusable. His number might as well be revoked.
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