Bruno Fernandes | United not interested due to doubts over passing ability

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I struggle to believe that if this guy is as good as he's made out to be, that he wouldn't have had a transfer out of Portugal by now.
 

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I struggle to believe that if this guy is as good as he's made out to be, that he wouldn't have had a transfer out of Portugal by now.
I think his amazing goals and assists highlight reel from last season was made in a studio using state of the art cgi and green screens.
 

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I think his amazing goals and assists highlight reel from last season was made in a studio using state of the art cgi and green screens.
Look, I'm not saying he's rubbish, but it seems like Sporting or his agent have been trying to drum up interest all summer and no one seems to have bitten, which I find odd. Especially for us as the deal looks like it was there to be done and if he is that good he'd be an improvement for us.
 

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Can't wait to be linked with him in jan then summer.


New Gaitan.
 

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Would you still? For me there was too much smoke for that, doesn't seem like a Gaitan situation to me. My sense is that we were interested but not prepared to meet Sporting's price.
Yep same here, I don't believe in woodwards briefs anymore. He openly lies to create a opinion which has no connection with ground realities.
 

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Look, I'm not saying he's rubbish, but it seems like Sporting or his agent have been trying to drum up interest all summer and no one seems to have bitten, which I find odd. Especially for us as the deal looks like it was there to be done and if he is that good he'd be an improvement for us.
I think it is a price thing and what seems like a novice agent but to be fair the best run clubs have a top players in his position so I'm not too surprised. Seemed a no brainer for us though as he surely cannot be worse than what we have.
Why did our scouts attend about 15 Sporting games last season as reported? It's strange for sure.
I really hope he gets a move to Europe before the full window shuts.
 

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Sounds like Spurs interest in this guy was as a back-up purchase in case we didn't get Lo Celso - Lo Celso sounds like it's likely to get done finally so our interest in BF is over.
 

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His price will drop after all the English clubs are out of the running. Then some random non-English club will buy him on the cheap. The Premier League deciding to kill themselves by shutting the transfer window early and giving the advantage to other European clubs sounds very much like Brexit.
 

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His asking price wasn't that high, sorry but it just looks to me that no one was that interested in him. If he moves at all, it'll be to a mid level team in Spain.
 

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His asking price wasn't that high, sorry but it just looks to me that no one was that interested in him. If he moves at all, it'll be to a mid level team in Spain.
Sporting were asking 70m for him. Its too high.
 

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His price will drop after all the English clubs are out of the running. Then some random non-English club will buy him on the cheap. The Premier League deciding to kill themselves by shutting the transfer window early and giving the advantage to other European clubs sounds very much like Brexit.
It was the stupidest decision by EPL. God knows what bit them to make such rule.
 

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Isn't that a nonsense though. Cos everytime Sporting reject a bid over 35 million euro they have to pay Fernandez 5 million euro? So if Spurs have had 2 bids turned down that's 10 million euro to Bruno?
 

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Sporting were asking 70m for him. Its too high.
Not one confirmed bid for Bruno all transfer window.
Even a lowball bid.
Nadda.
No one has been interested, the media attention has been based on agent and sporting feeding the information.
 

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Would you still? For me there was too much smoke for that, doesn't seem like a Gaitan situation to me. My sense is that we were interested but not prepared to meet Sporting's price.
I think that's it in a nutshell.
Bruno was mentioned as far back as March, and we know that he was scouted extensively.
I just think that United thought that they could get him on the cheap, mistakenly thinking his release clause was £35m, and perhaps Joao Felix being transferred for more than £100m has made Sporting determined to get a much higher valuation for their player.
 

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Not one confirmed bid for Bruno all transfer window.
Even a lowball bid.
Nadda.
No one has been interested, the media attention has been based on agent and sporting feeding the information.
Doesn't make it untrue that Sporting were asking interested teams for 70m when enquiring.
 

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this seems really really weird. He had a great season last year, is at a good age and valuation of 70m euros is not that bad but no one seems to be going for him. There must be something weird going on with the contract he signed after the fan attack and no one wants to deal with that.
 

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this seems really really weird. He had a great season last year, is at a good age and valuation of 70m euros is not that bad but no one seems to be going for him. There must be something weird going on with the contract he signed after the fan attack and no one wants to deal with that.
I think its simply the case that the clubs do not value the player as highly as Sporting do. I don't think there is anything particularly weird other than the clause, which is still not anywhere near as complicated as the image rights of Dybala.
 

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Isn't that a nonsense though. Cos everytime Sporting reject a bid over 35 million euro they have to pay Fernandez 5 million euro? So if Spurs have had 2 bids turned down that's 10 million euro to Bruno?
More likely a non-existent clause pushed into tabloid media by Super Agent Mendes and Sporting.

Good player, but clearly no one actually made a significant effort to sign him.
 

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Seriously even if he wasn't a top target Woody needs to go out and deliver this guy just to stem the tidal wave of backlash thats coming his way. We know you are on here listening Woody so just do it to save your ass!
 

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What is going on?! For the last few weeks we've been told a deal is pretty much done and 2 hours left of the window and nothing :(
 

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No reports of him leaving on a flight... with 2 hours left there's no chance

And according to most reports, we never were interested to begin with
 

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Seriously even if he wasn't a top target Woody needs to go out and deliver this guy just to stem the tidal wave of backlash thats coming his way. We know you are on here listening Woody so just do it to save your ass!
Have you seen Fernandes play? Other than YouTube clips?
 
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