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 Manchester United architect-in-chief Bruno Fernandes has been nominated for the Premier League Goal of the Month award for August.
The former Sporting Lisbon man, who joined United in January last year, made the dream start to the new campaign, netting an opening day hat-trick to help Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side hammer Leeds United 5-1 at Old Trafford.
Fernandes scored United's first, third and fourth goals of the afternoon to ensure they ended the first weekend of the season top of the table.
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