People here talking about Bruno's level and comparing him to Moutinho ffs,no disrespect but Bruno is a level above, he isn't united Messiah but he is definitely one of our best players and arguably behind only De bruyne among creative midfielders in the league, just check his non penalty stats in the league I think about 4 goals and 7 assist in 14 games if am not mistaken,that's very impressive without the pens,The only flaw in his game is the way he needlessly give possession away trying to force things,we knew that before signing him and I'll take that over Lingard safe sideways and backward passing
I can only remember 3 non penalty PL goals. One was a free-kick, the other was the deflected strike bs Brighton and that brilliant counter- attack volley in the same game.
But your general point is fair anyway. He’s far better than any AM we have, although I do think his true level is yet to be established, the sample is still small, and within that sample, the performances have been very much mixed.
And I’m not sure any pass that isn’t backwards is an excuse to concede possession. I would imagine, having watched the game vs West Brom last week, that James had a very good pass completion, despite passing forward regularly. Nobody said it has to be easy to pass forward well. It isn’t, which is why some players are considered better than others. Bruno needs to do better. It is no use to us to just keep giving marks for the attempt. Attempts don’t help us. If you are not completing a respectable percentage, then it makes no difference what you are trying to do.
I really liked what I saw in midweek, admittedly against Luton Town, but also for Portugal. I think he has another level to go. He reminds me of Rashford where I am confident that they will eventually get to where they need to be simply because they seem to want to so damn much.