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.
Here are your Manchester United morning headlines on Friday, June 24. David de Gea has named pressure as his biggest motivation to succeed at United.
De Gea was named United's Players' Player of the Year in recognition of his inspired displays last season. De Gea's future at Old Trafford was surrounded by uncertainty last summer, but he emphatically bounced back to make the No.1 spot his own again. ALSO READ: 'This club won't learn' - Manchester United fans furious after latest transfer team 'shake-up' The Spaniard started in every one of United's 38 Premier League games and was wonderfully consistent between the sticks, despite his teammates ahead of him regularly registering disappointing displays.
De Gea now looks set to be Erik ten Hag's first-choice goalkeeper. Read more from De Gea here. United great Rio Ferdinand has trolled Bruno Fernandes after the midfielder was caught moaning at teammates Alex Telles and Fred for being filmed on their way into the Carrington training base.
The Brazilian duo had just arrived in the car park when Fernandes shouted: "Stop being such ‘ballers’. You are here to play football, not film it." Fernandes, Telles and Fred then joked with each other afterwards.
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