It's an interesting one. Personally for me I think if we were to try and sell Bruno I don't think a really top team comes in for him (as a first eleven player anyway, he could be a squad player anywhere) as I think he is to willing to give the ball away on low percentage passes and so for however good his stats are I think he has a ceiling.
That said given how far away from either of those we are, I don't think that is really an issue for us and there are many other areas we need to fix first. Yes we could probably get a good fee for him but I'm not sure how easily we'd replace what he does bring and if it makes sense to do that when there's a lot of other problems. I do think/hope there is a way to reign him in a bit and for him to have a better balance on when to be aggressive and when to calm things down although I'm not sure on that. He seems quite an emotional player so I wonder if we were to get more in control of things and not always be in situations where we need to turn it around if he would then respond to that as well but we just don't know.
However we do need to react to what he's currently like and acknowledge that as we know he's going to likely give the ball away, and coupled with the fact that all of our attackers will likely make a reasonably number of poor decisions in attack, that we can't leave ourselves in situations where we're so prone to a counter attack. We then need to couple this with adding another attacker who will suit/compliment Bruno/Hojland rather than just a random attacker and it needs to be someone who is more established as we've already got Garnacho and hopefully Amad as young attacking players. That said I'm not sure who that would be and what funds there are for it, I suspect if Rashford/Anthony don't find form then maybe we'll see Mount in attack, which whilst not ideal might not be the worse thing for us (not sure it can get worse) until we can get to the summer. I think for now we're likely to have more success banking on "moments" and trying to be as solid as we can and for that Bruno is as good a player as you're likely to find.
That said given how far away from either of those we are, I don't think that is really an issue for us and there are many other areas we need to fix first. Yes we could probably get a good fee for him but I'm not sure how easily we'd replace what he does bring and if it makes sense to do that when there's a lot of other problems. I do think/hope there is a way to reign him in a bit and for him to have a better balance on when to be aggressive and when to calm things down although I'm not sure on that. He seems quite an emotional player so I wonder if we were to get more in control of things and not always be in situations where we need to turn it around if he would then respond to that as well but we just don't know.
However we do need to react to what he's currently like and acknowledge that as we know he's going to likely give the ball away, and coupled with the fact that all of our attackers will likely make a reasonably number of poor decisions in attack, that we can't leave ourselves in situations where we're so prone to a counter attack. We then need to couple this with adding another attacker who will suit/compliment Bruno/Hojland rather than just a random attacker and it needs to be someone who is more established as we've already got Garnacho and hopefully Amad as young attacking players. That said I'm not sure who that would be and what funds there are for it, I suspect if Rashford/Anthony don't find form then maybe we'll see Mount in attack, which whilst not ideal might not be the worse thing for us (not sure it can get worse) until we can get to the summer. I think for now we're likely to have more success banking on "moments" and trying to be as solid as we can and for that Bruno is as good a player as you're likely to find.