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 Former Manchester United central-defender Rio Ferdinand has admitted he was left "baffled" by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's decision to change Mason Greenwood's starting position against Southampton on Sunday afternoon.
After starting United's 5-1 victory over Leeds United on the opening day of the Premier League campaign as the central striker, Greenwood was shifted back out to the right-wing against the Saints, accommodating Anthony Martial's return to the starting line-up.
Martial was deployed as the lone front man, with support coming from Bruno Fernandes, Paul Pogba and Greenwood behind him. Solskjaer's decision to take
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