Sure if you aim to be mid table then yes by all means players who have incredible availability and love the club should never be anything but adored. When you aim to actually be among the best clubs in the world the standard is much higher, otherwise you get stuck rolling out a lineup full of McTominays/Weghorsts etc. and get schooled for the umpteenth time by City.
United fans have always had far too much of a tolerance and soft spot for players that logically should be moved on, and it's partly why we've struggled post SAF (among a host of other issues).. We pretty much always look to sell players when they are already far past their best instead of when they still have good market value but their performances have slipped. People wonder how Madrid seem to always be set for a bright future every year and it's because they've mastered phasing out even the biggest club legends while still getting great value for them, even if they sell those players a year early, and they'll sell underperformers (and sack underperforming managers) even quicker when it's clear a mistake was made bringing them in. The smartest plan moving forward would be to deal with some fan backlash and sell Bruno for a very nice fee this summer to reinvest into a younger replacement while he's still highly regarded but past his very best. Sure maybe it would be missing one more productive Bruno year, but you instead transition to the future and can sign any sort of bright young replacement and cover most of their incoming fee with his sale. But we most likely won't, and in 2 years when he's still wearing the armband and can hardly run anymore fans will fully be ready to see the end of him when we will struggle to get 30% of what his current value is.
