Taking a look at last season stats at Whoscored, Bruno averaged 53.4 passes per game in the league and he played 2942 minutes. That's the equivalent of 32.7 full games and 1745 passes in total. 6th in the league with most passes, with three out of the five players above him being defenders.
He had 3.2 key passes per game, the second best in the league, and he gave 13 assists, second best in the league again.
He was the first in average shots per game (3.6) which meant 117 shots and 20 goals, 2nd best scorer in the league.
So it seems that everything goes through him at Sporting attacking wise. He's the risk taker of the team and he's been given the platform to make the difference with goals and assists, which means two things in my opinion.
Firstly that his total numbers (goals, asissts, key passes, total ball loses, etc) are all inflated because of the way Sporting is configured around him. He's clearly a talented player with good offensive production but he's being 'overexploited', which means that all his numbers are going to be higher than normal in every department.
In a harder league, without that freedom and sharing responsibilities with the rest of the team he wouldn't hit those figures of goals and assists, not even close. But at the same time his passing completion would be better surely, because he wouldn't be taking risky passes and forcing things all the time.
Last season he played 172 minutes for Portugal and he had 80 % pass completion but only 2 key passes in total, 1 per game approx. It's 5 % better in terms of pass completion but far from the 3.2 key pases per game with Sporting. Not a good example with just a pair of games, but I expect something similar if he goes elsewhere.
Overall a good player to have as a productive 10, but vastly overpaid at 70 - 80 M. €, if these are the numbers that Sporting are demanding. If that 35 M clause was a release clause he would have signed for a good PL team already, I think. He's a good player to take a punt and have around, hardworking, energetic, team captain, but there's important question marks there to happily spend major figures on him.
He had 3.2 key passes per game, the second best in the league, and he gave 13 assists, second best in the league again.
He was the first in average shots per game (3.6) which meant 117 shots and 20 goals, 2nd best scorer in the league.
So it seems that everything goes through him at Sporting attacking wise. He's the risk taker of the team and he's been given the platform to make the difference with goals and assists, which means two things in my opinion.
Firstly that his total numbers (goals, asissts, key passes, total ball loses, etc) are all inflated because of the way Sporting is configured around him. He's clearly a talented player with good offensive production but he's being 'overexploited', which means that all his numbers are going to be higher than normal in every department.
In a harder league, without that freedom and sharing responsibilities with the rest of the team he wouldn't hit those figures of goals and assists, not even close. But at the same time his passing completion would be better surely, because he wouldn't be taking risky passes and forcing things all the time.
Last season he played 172 minutes for Portugal and he had 80 % pass completion but only 2 key passes in total, 1 per game approx. It's 5 % better in terms of pass completion but far from the 3.2 key pases per game with Sporting. Not a good example with just a pair of games, but I expect something similar if he goes elsewhere.
Overall a good player to have as a productive 10, but vastly overpaid at 70 - 80 M. €, if these are the numbers that Sporting are demanding. If that 35 M clause was a release clause he would have signed for a good PL team already, I think. He's a good player to take a punt and have around, hardworking, energetic, team captain, but there's important question marks there to happily spend major figures on him.
