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.
Manchester United fans know Erik ten Hag's comments about Christian Eriksen are right
manchestereveningnews.co.ukWhen Manchester United completed the signing of Christian Eriksen last July almost everyone pondered where he would fit into Erik ten Hag's plans.
United, at the time, were still hopeful of bringing Frenkie de Jong to Old Trafford as their statement signing in midfield, meaning he and Eriksen as a midfield pairing would have been too attack-minded, and there was no chance of Bruno Fernandes being axed from the No.10 position.
Eriksen, of course, had a reputation for being one of the best attacking-midfielders in the business and was not expected to be tasked with taking on a new role in M16.
However, after being trialed as a false-nine and then as a defensive-midfielder in his first two United appearances, the Dane found comfort operating as a box-to-box midfielder, operating as a No.8, playing alongside fellow summer recruit Casemiro, who was identified, despite having a completely different profile, as an ideal alternative to De Jong. READ MORE: Erik ten Hag has contradicted himself about Wout Weghorst Although Ten Hag played a patient game with Casemiro, refusing to throw him straight into his new surroundings, it quickly became clear that he and Eriksen were going to be central to the way the Dutchman wanted his new-look team to play.
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