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.
Scoring a goal is the hardest part of football, or at least that has sometimes been the case for Manchester United. Their fans are accustomed to fearless attacking football, and yet under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer they have created fewer clear-cut chances than both Brighton & Hove Albion and Burnley this season.
Bruno Fernandes has had an instant impact at Old Trafford, but nevertheless Solskjaer will look to add a playmaker to his squad this summer.
Feeding Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial hasn’t been easy. With that in mind, let’s take a look at five up-and-coming creative sparks who could help improve United even further. Moussa Diaby, Bayer Leverkusen The former Paris Saint-Germain man is the top player aged under-21 for expected assists
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