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 latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Bruno Fernandes watched his former club Udinese lose to Juventus while Manchester United supporters protested outside The Lowry on Sunday.
Hundreds of United fans gathered outside the team's pre-match hotel to protest against the Glazer family's ownership and refused to disperse, causing the 4.30pm kick-off with Liverpool to be postponed.
A post on Twitter falsely claimed a news source had reported Fernandes, Nemanja Matic, Scott McTominay, and Harry Maguire offered to speak to United fans outside The Lowry.
Although the reporter who was named as the 'source' of the disinformation had informed United the tweet was inaccurate, United
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