Took him out of my FPL team and he instantly produces the goods.
He's not going back in, time to put a jinx on Palmer and a few others.
He's not going back in, time to put a jinx on Palmer and a few others.
Bruno Fernandes | 2026/27 Performances
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Said it a few times, we should use him as a false 9, especially in the bigger games.
He's almost doing that role anyway.
The way we play at the moment he is vital. We rely on him and everything goes through him.
We could look like a better team if we moved on from Bruno.
Two things can be true.
Forget it, man.
He’s literally one of the best players on the planet and an absolute joy to watch, in the robotic game that football has become, Bruno is our edge, a United minus Bruno with some Steady Eddie type in some mythical 4-3-3 would make us a far more predictable and less dangerous side.
Players like Bellingham, Olise and Bruno give their teams an enormous edge in the current game.
Looking for a scapegoat as for why United didn’t win a title in 13 years and coming to the conclusion that Bruno Fernandes is the sole or the main issue is absolutely bonkers.
United’s history is filled with players that always played forward, and always looked to create and got you off the seat, Bruno is a proper United player and we’re incredibly lucky to have him.
Would we? How? And please be realistic, by taking the current talent pool in football and financials into account.
He's at the peak of his powers. Every 2 games he delivers . Gigantic player.
If we took him out of the team now would we be better?
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No issues man we have largely been irrelevant as Major Football Club for more than a decade whats couple of more years.
The idea that we'd be better without Bruno was a stupid opinion 3 years ago. Now it's frankly concerning to read. It feels like I'm witnessing the Birds Aren't Real movement in real time.
Can't wait for him to leave so that we can have balanced team and win league titles so easily, sometimes CL too.
Haha. It was a 9/10 performance (10/10 I’d say for the second half). 5/10 against Hull. He was quite outstanding yesterday.
we dont appreciate how special he is, especially while playing in mediocre teams
It's funny because earlier in the week I commented that this team needs a better balance of Bruno's goals and assists and he answered right on cue. Getting all those assists were great for him and us last season but it showed that we were too reliant on him for creativity. With Casemiro's headed goals no longer being available we need Bruno to score a lot more than he has recently especially with him playing so high.
We have other players in this team that can create and we saw this today. Bruno getting 12-15 non penalty goals and 15 assists is much better for us than him getting a tiny number of NPG and loads of assists.
If he keeps that goal threat up we become extremely dangerous. Rashford, Cunha and Tielemans can all create so I'm hoping it continues.
We have other players in this team that can create and we saw this today. Bruno getting 12-15 non penalty goals and 15 assists is much better for us than him getting a tiny number of NPG and loads of assists.
If he keeps that goal threat up we become extremely dangerous. Rashford, Cunha and Tielemans can all create so I'm hoping it continues.
Yep, Bruno is the thing standing between us and competing for top honours.
Honestly, this is such a mad take. All this banging on about the hypothetical control we'd have without him, based on very little evidence. He's just won player of the year and is admired universally by pundits and his peers, but YOU'RE probably the one that's right on this.
The only thing would be playing 4-3-3 which we can't do with Bruno.
But there's obviously more to it than simply changing formation.
He was brilliant today. Made up for his hull showing. He’s at par for the season
Let’s see which Bruno turns up vs Everton…And despite my personal opinion on him, I hope it’s the one that battered Hull
Our number of goals conceded have shot up to 48 on average in PL from around 38 but our goals scored have remained static at 60 goals and our points tally dropped from 69 to 63 thats pre and post Bruno's arrival after Sir Alex's Retirement .
We can talk about How Bruno is not the problem but he is not the solution either , I'll concede talk of control without him is hypothetical may never come to fruition post him either but lack of control is with him is a reality no matter How hard you try to ignore it .
All of this is correlation not causation though. There are so many additional factors that impact why things have gone how they've gone since fergie left, so many changes, but you're clinging on to the best player in the league last year being the issue. Because...uninterrogated stats.
Some horrendous takes in this thread - especially given that he just won POTY and scored a hattrick within days of eachother.
The best midfielder in Europe right now? I’m sorry but he’s just come of the back of a season where he got the most assist in a single season than anyone and that includes the so ‘great’ KDB’ he’s carrying on his form with an hat trick on the second game of the season. He always ends up with double digits G/A. His numbers are insane. People need to start respecting and realising where we’d be without this player.
Good man
Extend and make him head of the fitness department
Personally I think we would be a much better balanced team playing a 4-3-3, which means not having an out-and-out #10 like Bruno.
I expect our wide players would enjoy more success with more space in the central areas for them to roam into. And I think a true 3-man midfield would allow us to control games and provide better cover for marauding FBs.
It comes down to midfield shape. In a 4-2-3-1, your CMs cant as readily afford to be dragged out wide or to really get involved in the attack. Further, it requires those two players to have a much more complete profile. I prefer the 4-3-3, with the dedicated holding player and two 8s with license to roam and get forward.
Thats the "system" side of it, the other side is simply that Bruno is completely incapable of playing the easy passes and just retaining possession. Every time he gets on the ball he wants to create something. Thats noble, and its something a lot of people likely look at and say "Great!". I say that the truly exceptional players understand when there is an opportunity for them to do it all themselves, but also when to play it safe, when to trust a teammate etc. Bruno gets away with it because on his good days, he contributes - but as we saw against Hull, on his bad days he is really bad because of the way he plays. If he was capable of balancing his instinct to always look for the killer pass, with a bit more game intelligence, he would be a better player for it and we would be a better team for it.
Didnt realize he turns 32 in a week, let shope he keeps that fitness s long as possible. Many players regardless of the body shape fell from a cliff after 30 after playing so many games, but he keeps going.
I mean he was playing in CM half of last season and people were praising him for being conservative with his ball use even when he started playing as No 10 again which is again only about 8 months ago.
Everything seems to reset with him every season it seems.
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I think he's got another 3 years left in the tank, with a slight degradation with each year. The fact that he's such a cerebral player will help him prolong his viability well into his mid 30s imo.
Sorry, but this is just flat out wrong.
Pure fiction.
That's not really true these days with the sports science and nuitrition stuff players have these days, and there has always been exceptions, Bruno, barring any serious inkuries probably still has 5 years at the top level if he wants it
There can only be one captain on that ship, and he's the main. Play through him, we win. Simple. We might have to make the others happy but there's one route that truly works, and it's him just behind the striker. Not the others.
Yeah just like Harry Kane, shite antithetical footballer because he couldn't win any trophies with Spurs. You completely right in the way you applying this logical, keep at it...
While we at it, let's even add Alan Shearer and the other plethora of amazing footballers that went their through their career without winning silverware because of other issues other than the fact they were world class at in their position.
Aside from the fact that stats doesn't always compute and translate just as simple as you put it, let's leave that for the actual point that the poster claims he is antithetical to football, I mean like in what world can that be even remotely true...
Anyway, I've long stopped debating on this forum because everyone has their silo mentality and no inch to spare with a total lack willingness to be open to considering that just maybe, maybe they are not always right. And to hell with the...if he proves me wrong, then I'll put my hands up shite...that's just a way people cover their shite takes.
Just look at the amount of those in the Rushford thread, wait one bad game and those same will be right back at it.
It's a pity that our greatest player post Fergie has had to endure a terrible slate of managerial mess ups and team dynamics that just never help set us to be regular contenders, but I firmly believe if you put Bruno in any of the world class teams right now, he would fit in and be winning just like Harry Kane has when he moved from Spurs.
I‘d wait a bit posting nonsense like this after a 10/10 performance from Bruno.
If I had to name one player who is similar to Bruno, I‘d name Kevin de Bruyne.
Bruno is perfect for 433 what on earth are you talking about?
Oh woah. We still have people saying we are better off without Bruno? Seriously?
Looking at today's market, someone with his productivity level would cost 150 million pounds and more.
This is crazy
Looking at today's market, someone with his productivity level would cost 150 million pounds and more.
This is crazy
It seems to be a stab in the dark because he's been great whilst we've never challenged during his time here.
I genuinely don't think anybody else in the squad finishes his equaliser on Sunday. He did it on his weaker foot.
I think he's still getting better. Not hit his peak yet.
Number 10s aren't perfect for a 4-3-3. The role requires him to move him away from his strengths and lean more towards his weaknesses. Just not ideal at all.
A lot depends on who the other two in the three are. But he needs to be able to roam in whatever formation to get the best out of him.
He needs to be higher up the pitch.
Which leaves us with the same two as we have now which isn’t enough and we get ran through.