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In my opinion Bruno is the most overrated Unted player in recent times.

There is a reason the big clubs didnt go after him, it is because he cant play a systematic football, he relies on moments, on individualism.

ETH will have to make a big decision about him and quickly.
 
you know it's bad when you're getting cooked by Agbonlahor and he's not wrong

 
Its about time we should drop Bruno. He has been totally useless for many months already.
 
Let give chance for other players, the team need competitive property if a specific player don't perform well consistently.
 
This guy is fecking shit. I've defended him over the years, but he's unrecognizable now. Remember that moment when Lindelof gave him some lip and everybody (including me) couldn't believe he had the gall to talk back to Bruno? How wrong we were.
 
Why couldn't Bruno play in a wide playmaker role like Hakim Ziyech? This would at least let us move Rashford to a striker role until Martial is back and add another ball player midfielder to the midfielder.

Assuming some Transfer Rumors come to fruition..

Fernandes - Rashford - Sancho

Eriksen - Rabiot
De Jong
 
His drop in form is just baffling to me. He seems so angry and everything he does is with such unnecessary force.
 
Why couldn't Bruno play in a wide playmaker role like Hakim Ziyech? This would at least let us move Rashford to a striker role until Martial is back and add another ball player midfielder to the midfielder.

Assuming some Transfer Rumors come to fruition..

Fernandes - Rashford - Sancho

Eriksen - Rabiot
De Jong
Except for Rashford is beyond useless in that role (well he's beyond useless in pretty much any role these days.)
 
Except for Rashford is beyond useless in that role (well he's beyond useless in pretty much any role these days.)

Ronaldo isn't mobile enough, so he stands on a CB and gets played around. At least Rashford would let the front 3 press collectively similar to what we saw in pre-season. Let's face it, I don't think it can get much worse.
 
His drop in form is just baffling to me. He seems so angry and everything he does is with such unnecessary force.
He's never had that time on the ball that great players do. Always been a 100 miles an hour player. Difference being in the first 10 months everything came off.

I think we have to accept that he isn't actually that good. His passing is usually ordinary. He is physically weak. Pace? Not much. His saving grace is end product but when that's not clicking, I'm not sure what he offers and it drags the collective down.
 
Bruno is fast becoming the midfield equivalent to David Luiz: a PlayStation midfielder.
 
In my opinion Bruno is the most overrated Unted player in recent times.

There is a reason the big clubs didnt go after him, it is because he cant play a systematic football, he relies on moments, on individualism.

ETH will have to make a big decision about him and quickly.
Absolutely. He doesn't link up well because his short link up passing, dribbling etc is all bang average. He's the guy who when in form for a mediocre team gets end product and is hailed as a hero. But I'm not sure he works as part of a refined team or even contributes to a team becoming one.
 
The fall in productivity from him is shocking. He was never the most tidiest player, but he has just fallen off the cliff in terms of creating chances. I can't understand what has happened. I wouldn't even trust him to hit a penalty or score an open goal, so bad is the form that he is in. For his and ours sake, I hope he regains his form soon, otherwise we are in for a long season unless Eriksen finds his feet soon.
 
Has to be dropped. That’s the only thing that can save this United team, a belated introduction of accountability. We have Eriksen who is best at 10 and VdB who isn’t really a 10 but maybe we just play as another CM. 90% of the caf said this guy would struggle in a team where he can’t just pump it long/shoot for 90mins and he’s missed some big chances already.
 
Why exactly are we blaming him?, if you've ever played this football game you'll know the defense gives the fowards players confidence to go and do their thing, how on earth do you go into a game and 18mins later you're two or more goals behind? this would only sucks the life out of whatever confidence the foward players had. At this Moment our main problem in our Defensive coordination, that needs fixing first.

I don't understand the idea that goes "he's a counter attacking player" a lot of teams have those playing for them but are coached into knowing when to bring those attributes to the game, what we are seeing is a team that isn't well balanced in different areas with less qualities and that is costing us more than we think Bruno is.
 
Why exactly are we blaming him?, if you've ever played this football game you'll know the defense gives the fowards players confidence to go and do their thing, how on earth do you go into a game and 18mins later you're two or more goals behind? this would only sucks the life out of whatever confidence the foward players had. At this Moment our main problem in our Defensive coordination, that needs fixing first.

I don't understand the idea that goes "he's a counter attacking player" a lot of teams have those playing for them but are coached into knowing when to bring those attributes to the game, what we are seeing is a team that isn't well balanced in different areas with less qualities and that is costing us more than we think Bruno is.
Skying that good chance set up by Sancho at 0-0 for starters
 
You should drop him and play Eriksen in his role. Seeing ETH play Eriksen as a DM when he has never played that position in his entire career is a worry for me. He is prioritising Bruno over Eriksen and that's a mistake in my opinion.
 
His drop in form is just baffling to me. He seems so angry and everything he does is with such unnecessary force.

He's been longer in this form than the form he showed when he joined us. Needs dropping, but then so do about 7 or 8 others.
 
Why exactly are we blaming him?, if you've ever played this football game you'll know the defense gives the fowards players confidence to go and do their thing, how on earth do you go into a game and 18mins later you're two or more goals behind? this would only sucks the life out of whatever confidence the foward players had. At this Moment our main problem in our Defensive coordination, that needs fixing first.

I don't understand the idea that goes "he's a counter attacking player" a lot of teams have those playing for them but are coached into knowing when to bring those attributes to the game, what we are seeing is a team that isn't well balanced in different areas with less qualities and that is costing us more than we think Bruno is.

i don't know - maybe because he's been awful for the last 12 months and is getting worse?
 
You should drop him and play Eriksen in his role. Seeing ETH play Eriksen as a DM when he has never played that position in his entire career is a worry for me. He is prioritising Bruno over Eriksen and that's a mistake in my opinion.
Absolutely. The problem is we do not have a decent CDM, only McTominay and Fred could cover that to a certain extent, but both a pretty average footballers and ten Hag wants to get a bit more control of the ball. I am not sure if playing Eriksen deeper was an idea when bringing him in or is now some kind of panic reaction.
 
Why couldn't Bruno play in a wide playmaker role like Hakim Ziyech? This would at least let us move Rashford to a striker role until Martial is back and add another ball player midfielder to the midfielder.
Put simply, because he cannot play that role. Fernandes is one of the least tactically flexible players in this side. He’s a number 10/second striker and that position alone.

Fernandes doesn’t have the physicality, pace, or dribbling ability to play outwide. Even to play as a wide playmaker like Ziyech, the latter has the ability to dribble and carry the ball (77th percentile for dribbling, 60th for ball carrying) — not the most amazing stats, but clearly show he’s adept at those areas of the game which allows him to do his main thing, playmaking from a wide position.

Compare this to Fernandes - he is in the 6th percentile for dribbling and 45th for ball carrying. One of Fernandes’ massive weaknesses is that he’s really quite crap when he has no space. If he’s one v one against a defender his only real option ever is to pass the ball very quickly. He’d struggle every time he played out there.
 
Why couldn't Bruno play in a wide playmaker role like Hakim Ziyech? This would at least let us move Rashford to a striker role until Martial is back and add another ball player midfielder to the midfielder.

Assuming some Transfer Rumors come to fruition..

Fernandes - Rashford - Sancho

Eriksen - Rabiot
De Jong

Because he's a shit dribbler and has zero strength to hold off any fullback, and Ziyech himself failed to do that role at a good level in the PL
 
Absolutely. The problem is we do not have a decent CDM, only McTominay and Fred could cover that to a certain extent, but both a pretty average footballers and ten Hag wants to get a bit more control of the ball. I am not sure if playing Eriksen deeper was an idea when bringing him in or is now some kind of panic reaction.
I would assume it was a panic reaction. He must know that nobody at the club can play the role. He played Fred there last week and it was a disaster. He moved Eriksen there in the 2nd half, and he played well. It did help that Brighton played far more conservatively in the 2nd half. That helped us to look better. Seeing Eriksen look good there gave ETH the confidence to start him there against Brentford. Then Eriksen had a disaster.

I would like to see Eriksen take Bruno's place. Bruno has been horrible for too long.
 
Fernandes needs to be dropped as he makes too many bad passes and has gone backwards this past year, or more. It's now time to start some of the youngsters.
Sell Rashford and bring in Antony.
Try Garnacho in place of Sancho.
Bring in a Specialist DM
A Top CF and release Ronaldo.
 
We should try Bruno on the wing or as a second striker and ask Sancho to help more the MFs. In a midfield of three, if we want to be a possession based team, he is not going to work.
 
If we are being perfectly honest, his general level of play has been shit for more than 2 years now, with numbers masking them for a year like Rashford. The rest is unmitigated disaster.

At this point, if an offer comes in, we should sell. Eriksen can play there, or Hannibal, or anybody really, and we would be better off purely due to not ceding possession because of him 10 times a match.
 
Why couldn't Bruno play in a wide playmaker role like Hakim Ziyech? This would at least let us move Rashford to a striker role until Martial is back and add another ball player midfielder to the midfielder.

Assuming some Transfer Rumors come to fruition..

Fernandes - Rashford - Sancho

Eriksen - Rabiot
De Jong
He doesn't dribble. He has the tendency to stop the ball, then pick option instead of "working" the pitch, continue to dribbling, keep the ball moving, then pass even simple pass. This habit involves players like Rashford, Fred, McTominay, Shaw, Maguire too.

Dalot overall is shite, but you look at him right now, you feel like he's one of the the play maker of the team. Almost all players on the pitch of the like of Liverpool, City, Chelseam Bayern, Barcelona... are capable and required to dribble, instead of stopping the ball dead before passing.

I am not encouraging ball hogging, which the issue with Maguire. I am talking about moving with purpose to open the passing angle, provoke space for succession move. Maguire case is that he brainless hogging straight into traffic and pass to player under pressure.
 
Should never have been given a new improved contract. Needs to make his acquaintance with the bench imo.
 
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He may be overrated, may be wasteful in possession But Bruno always offered work rate and effort.....even that's gone now.
 
Overrated, bang average player. Should of been dropped a long time ago. No coincidence that no top side in europe was interested when we bought him.
 
Why exactly are we blaming him?, if you've ever played this football game you'll know the defense gives the fowards players confidence to go and do their thing

piss poor excuse. If you know the defense is struggling, go make something happen offensively. That’s what you’re paid to do.

A solid defense helps obviously, but you’re effectively giving everyone up top a free pass just because the defense isn’t solid.
 
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He may be overrated, may be wasteful in possession But Bruno always offered work rate and effort.....even that's gone now.
He couldn't even string two passes together, wasn't bothered to run or to look up and explore other passing options.
Something is seriously fecked up in that dressing room.
 
His drop in form is just baffling to me. He seems so angry and everything he does is with such unnecessary force.
It's not baffling at all. Many people on here had picked up on his flaws early on his Utd career and knew it was a matter of time before he dropped off massively. It's just that the others had fingers in their ears and enamored by his "passion" and "will to win" and those exaggerated numbers he had in his first year.
 
piss poor excuse. If you know the defense is struggling, go make something happen offensively. That’s what you’re paid to do.

A solid defense helps obviously, but you’re effectively giving everyone up top a free pass just because the defense isn’t solid.

Did you even watch that game? how do you expect that to happen when the ball hasn't even left the feet of the defenders? Yes his shooting has been wayward and I'll say he's not been at his best but when a team is struggling lije we are, we need the defense to stop shifting in daft goals like we are seeing every week but no let's blame it on Bruno because Pogba is gone!
 
Did you even watch that game? how do you expect that to happen when the ball hasn't even left the feet of the defenders? Yes his shooting has been wayward and I'll say he's not been at his best but when a team is struggling lije we are, we need the defense to stop shifting in daft goals like we are seeing every week but no let's blame it on Bruno because Pogba is gone!
It is the whole teams duty to defend and attack. We might have looked like an Adam Sandler movie at the back but some of that is also due to the forwards and midfielders not tracking back and not giving passing options and instead standing still.

How can they expect to get on the ball when they aren’t making the effort to get in positions to recieve the ball which is what led to his invisible performance yesterday.
 
I always defended him with being a high risk player that you need in the final third. The problem is, he can't play it simple in front of our goal, he always picks the complicated and risky pass which is a disaster waiting to happen when he does it in our own half. He needs to turn this off or land on the discard list, you can't avoid losing the ball as much in dangerous situations as he does.
 
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