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.
Two Manchester United players could be about to do what Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney did
manchestereveningnews.co.ukstraight to your inboxA rest for Fernandes?The man who could do no wrong could do no right at Norwich, where Bruno Fernandes was brought down to the levels of Jesse Lingard and Juan Mata.Fernandes is one of three players to have started United's three matches since the restart and the other two are defenders.
His 120-minute slog at Norwich was not ideal ahead of a Tuesday trek to Brighton and serious consideration has to be given to his conditioning.Yet Fernandes is deemed so indispensable by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer he is retained for domestic and European cup ties that the prospect of him starting a Premier League game on the bench might be anathema.
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