We can add Slot to Pep Guardiola and every single United coach who's had him in their squad to the list of Bruno raters.
What do they know about football, eh? Clearly they need to spend more time on the CAF.
8
Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 56
- Goals
- 13
- Assists
- 19
- Yellow cards
- 10
- Red cards
- 3
We can add Slot to Pep Guardiola and every single United coach who's had him in their squad to the list of Bruno raters.
What do they know about football, eh? Clearly they need to spend more time on the CAF.
Man of the match for me. He was everywhere.
It's never been in doubt that he's our best creative talent. What has always been his downfall, is how easily he concedes possession.
You have to allow technical players to express themselves. It's risky but it's better than placing shackles on them as it relates to finding out ways to influence or affect the game. His football IQ is high, let him dribble and use his abilities.
Probably his best performance in a Utd shirt. Excellent.
He was quality today. Head and shoulders the best player on the pitch. Not just that, he was directing the team, telling when to press, when to fall back. And totally refusing to lie down at Anfield. If we can get this version of him every week, we might just have something to look forward to.
At this point, you guys definitely show the same behaviour you are accusing others for. But there you go. Lets never put too much emphasis on subpar performances, lets only do it when he is good and then act as if the level he showed today is what he always delivers. Because when you do it, it is different than when others do it...
Shouldn't you be happy now? Why are you being smug? Have other comments hurt your feelings lately?
And people think he's shit 
That's why he took matters into his own hands and got that yellow. Masterstroke!
Please. People don't think he's shit, just that he's been shit for us. Which he has been this season. He was great today. So let's have some more of that, eh?And people think he's shit
Give the ball away cheaply. Outside of the foot stupid passes. The usual.
He was excellent today so let's leave it at that. I don't like him as a captain and want him gone as I want this team to move forward.
He's a good player but he's at the wrong team. He should be at a side like Atletico or Juve.
He was absolutely excellent other than a few dodgy decisions. Showed some excellent close control and dribbling at times today that I haven't seen from him before really.
Didn't he go hiding a few weeks back when we got leathered and was nowhere to be seen post match and sent Eriksen out?
I am normally very critical of him, but credit where its due, he was fantastic today. Properly showed up.
He was everywhere. Just brilliant.
As usual, makes a tremendous difference to us when he is on the pitch compared to when he is not.
Excellent performance but he's our Gerrard and we'll never win a league with him as Captain.
He'll leave everything on the pitch and produce incredible match winning performances, but he doesn't control games and won't help us grind out the runs of 1-0 victories you need to win titles.
He'll leave everything on the pitch and produce incredible match winning performances, but he doesn't control games and won't help us grind out the runs of 1-0 victories you need to win titles.
Top quality today. This should be the standard. I remember another performance of the same level against a top side, in the Cup Final against City.
People won’t like it, but my opinion is that he is our only current “world class” player (and I know that defining “world class” is subjective).
The guy plays almost every possible minute & according to the Caf with idiots for teammates.
The guy plays almost every possible minute & according to the Caf with idiots for teammates.
Not particularly close either.
I really think people got a taste of how important it is to have a player in his position be good in tight spaces, because he actually WAS today.
The tough part is I still think, with current personnel, we are more dangerous going forward with him at CM and a runner at that left 10 spot, mainly because it makes up for Dalot not being good attacking wise.
This was far better than that performance for me. The City game was a lot of grittiness and a moment of brilliance, this was far more controlled and calculating
Brilliant. Called it about 5 minutes in, just knew he was on it.
His best performance for United in a long time.
Love this controlled version of him
We've just had plenty of the ball/control against City and Liverpool away. With Bruno in the team.
Still amazed people think one player can be so influential as to stop a team winning a league.
I don’t want to be a buzzkill, because he was genuinely fantastic today. But let’s be honest—this felt like a very uncharacteristic game for him. He ran with the ball, kept things simple with his passing, and, for once, didn’t try to channel his inner long-shot maverick. He even stayed calmer than usual and cut down on the complaining. Who knew he had it in him?
If anything, this performance highlighted just how much we’ve been missing a proper attacking midfielder—someone who can move with the ball, free themselves from pressure with clever body movement, and actually help us build an attack without relying on Hollywood passes.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Bruno. He’s got incredible creativity and a passion that’s hard to match, but he lacks the composure and athleticism needed to dominate consistently at the highest level. Too often, he tries to force the spectacular when the situation calls for calm, measured play. And athletically, he sometimes struggles to keep up in physical or fast-paced games, limiting his effectiveness when the team needs him most. To truly take the next step, we need players who not only bring creativity but also the composure and athletic presence to shape games in a more controlled and consistent way.
If anything, this performance highlighted just how much we’ve been missing a proper attacking midfielder—someone who can move with the ball, free themselves from pressure with clever body movement, and actually help us build an attack without relying on Hollywood passes.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Bruno. He’s got incredible creativity and a passion that’s hard to match, but he lacks the composure and athleticism needed to dominate consistently at the highest level. Too often, he tries to force the spectacular when the situation calls for calm, measured play. And athletically, he sometimes struggles to keep up in physical or fast-paced games, limiting his effectiveness when the team needs him most. To truly take the next step, we need players who not only bring creativity but also the composure and athletic presence to shape games in a more controlled and consistent way.
Somehow, someone has to force the manager to give him a rest once a while. It is not humanly possible to play like this twice a week, week in week out. Bruno makes mistakes because we overplay him. A tired human being will make more mistakes, that's inevitable.
Maybe he's our Robson and we won't win it until he's 36
Or he’ll almost single-handedly drag us to a Champion’s League title like Gerrard did for Liverpool. Works for me.
Silver lining to being out of the Carabao cup is we'll get a break this week. Toughest possible FA Cup game next weekend too might see us only have the league and the Europa League for the 2nd half of the season (which would have it's obvious benefits for our development too, but hopefully we can upset Arsenal)
He hasn’t though. So why say he has? He has had some poor performances (in a struggling team) but plenty of good ones (before today) as well. His ratio of good to poor performances is amongst the best in our team this season.
Its incredible how quickly Bruno's performances for United have become forgotten history. Did he play better today than he did at Wembley last summer against City.
Was his performance that much better than that time he came on against West Ham and equalled the record for number of chances created in a Premier League game since stats have existed? Or this opening day hat-trick against Leeds United a couple of seasons ago?
This guy has had so many decisive moments for Man Utd. So many brilliant games. Even this season, which he himself acknowledges hasn't been vintage, he continues to be a chance creation machine. Yet the consensus seems to be that he's stealing a living and is in the team based on...rep?
Incredible how narratives take hold. This is the same fella who lobbed the Liverpool keeper from like 40 yards the last time we played them before today, right? I'm not misremembering that.
One thing I can say is that Bruno isn't the reason why we'd let it slip if on a title charge. When we bottled it under Ole he was the only one trying to keep it alive with that acrobatic equaliser at West Brom. The rest of the team chickened out.
Really is testament to him that year after year, despite having some really mediocre attackers around him and being part of average teams, Bruno is consistently among the top of the league in his creation stats.
More than that today though I loved the control and composure. He's shown since Amorim came in that he absolutely has this side to his game and has a long while left being a key player for us. Whether we play him next to Ugarte or as a 10, either way he's class. Good to be able to rotate him with Mainoo in the deeper roles when needed and as something that can prolong his career too.
More than that today though I loved the control and composure. He's shown since Amorim came in that he absolutely has this side to his game and has a long while left being a key player for us. Whether we play him next to Ugarte or as a 10, either way he's class. Good to be able to rotate him with Mainoo in the deeper roles when needed and as something that can prolong his career too.
Plenty of good ones? This season? I don't know Pogue. I'm struggling to recall them.
Strange opinion. He's been pretty effective this year.
Nonsense. I'm happy about a player showing the fan base that he is (shock horror) an excellent player, like every manager that has managed him has thought. You have the most posts in this thread and yet others are the ones with agendas...?
When?
Absolutely brilliant performance, joy to watch.
Well with 70% passing accuracy today, it was several times.
He had a great game i said.