I criticise him a lot, but seriously can't even blame him with the dross around him. I would probably stop passing the ball to others at one point and play alone.
8
Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 40
- Goals
- 9
- Assists
- 14
- Yellow cards
- 8
- Red cards
- 3
I criticise him a lot, but seriously can't even blame him with the dross around him. I would probably stop passing the ball to others at one point and play alone.
24 G/A, and it's only March, for an absolutely fecking dogshit team and a club that is rotten from top to bottom.
The only player in the team capable of a goal or an assist. And he gets tons of abuse from idiot Utd fans and ex players.
Wouldn't blame him for wanting to go.
Feel bad for him. Plays his socks off every game while playing with a lot of below average footballers. I genuinely feel that his numbers would be so much better if he had better players around him.
He probably should find a better team to flourish in and be physically better off in his later years. Flogging a dead horse at United.
We rely on him way too much and he bails us out way too often. Hojlund, Zirkzee, Garnacho, and the rest of the squad need to be contributing to goals and assists more than they are currently doing. He's the last bit of cellotape holding everything together.
Did you watch the game?
He has wasted years here in fairness. The crap he plays with leaves him trying to do too much. His fitness is absolutely fantastic too.
We need him closer to goal. Yes, we don't have many players capable of progressing the ball through midfield. However, we also don't have many threats in the final third. We got back into the game because he got himself into an advanced position but the substitutions ensured he had to get deeper and deeper.
He's very much our Steven Gerrard and he will probably regret giving so many years of his career to a team that's got no real prospects of challenging for silverware.
He's very much our Steven Gerrard and he will probably regret giving so many years of his career to a team that's got no real prospects of challenging for silverware.
He is right.
I thought he did well overall (one of only a few) but playing these high balls constantly is frustrating.
We used to have 8-9 players of his quality on the pitch in most games. Now he’s the only one.
We used to have an entire squad of players with his work rate, and now we look at him in awe because he's still running about at 90 minutes
Half wonder if it might be best to put him up as a false 9 for a few games because that situation is absolutely dire at the moment and something needs to change. People are naturally encouraged by Obi's performance but he still looks way too raw for me. Zirkzee has been a bit better but offers no goal threat and the less said about Hojlund the better.
He is carrying us at the moment, only attacking player that looks decent.
For Bruno to successfully play at false 9 the rest of the team would have to be much different.
The reality is, one of the reasons Amorim keeps bouncing him about is because he needs someone with Bruno's energy and workrate in midfield who can also progress play. We have runners in midfield, Ugarte and Collyer would rat about til the cow's come home, but they're not exactly incisive passers. So Bruno gets stuck playing #8. Even though that basically kills any creation from #10.
When we're desperate Bruno gets sent forward, because he's the most dangerous attacking threat we have. But we don't consistently progress the ball so a lot of the time its just him standing around waiting for passes in the channel. Playing him as a false #9, in this set up, would probably just make it worse and we would lose his legs on defensive transitions.
We stick Bruno up front and then he'd just be isolated and peripheral because we have zero other creativity in the team. We'd have nobody to get the ball to him.
It's March and Zirkzee, Hojlund and Garnacho have 1 goal between them in 2025.
It's March and Zirkzee, Hojlund and Garnacho have 1 goal between them in 2025.
Truly a one man team, just the rest of the team is like... Really bad. At least the attack.
Week after week he gets dogs abuse but he is our only world class player. God knows where we would be without him
You're probably right but our options are so uniquely terrible that something needs to change, big time. I understand what you're saying though, we lose something when Bruno plays as a midfielder or a 10 because he's the only player that can play either of those roles well, but he can't be both at the same time.
That is just tragic! Anyone could tell you at the start of the season that goals would be a struggle but I never thought it would be this bad.
He could, sort of, but just not in Amorim's system as its currently working.
Ideally, Bruno should be able to play as one of the #10s because the third centre back in Amorim's sytem is always a free man and can advance the ball through the thirds. The two 8's just aggressively chase and the defender steps up as a sort of Lothar Mattheus to playmake.
But we don't have that player. Licha looked like he might be able to become it but then his knee went.
So we just have three centre backs squaring it to each other, which means you need a midfielder to drop back and do more. Bruno can do that but then you lose an attacking player or he has to cover a huge amount of ground shuttling.
With a proper double pivot that allows him to drop in and play the third midfielder, as well as an extra attacking player that gives opposition defenders something to think about, Bruno would be more effective. However, Amorim has made clear that he is not going to adjust his tactics to suit the players he has. He wants the players to change or he wants to change the players.
Fair enough if that's what the club wants to do but we won't get the best version of Bruno Fernandes in these circumstances.
I agree. If only he had the chance to go to anonther club for his own good. He deserves it.
He certainly is disadvantaged by it but at the same time, the dross is probably also not benefitting from this shower of shite football we are showing. Today was once again a terrible example of punting the ball forward. Like a re-creation of the infamous Bruno-Rashford combination.
If he is carrying us, we may have to ask him to adjust the direction.
I think the last two paragraphs are spot on. Amorim is stuck between a rock and a hard place with more or less only shit options in midfield. The one notable option is Ugarte and for him to work, he needs a partner with certain qualities. Which we don't have. But I guess we'll still go into the summer with fans clamouring for strikers and wingers and placing Bruno into CM in their future 11's.
His careers passed him by at Utd, he’s 31 this year so will never win a EPL or CL title here. Maybe he genuinely likes it at the club, but he could’ve won some serious trophies if he pushed for a move to likes of PSG or Bayern.
Killed himself today. Been working very very hard without the just rewards unfortunately.
If Ji Sung Park had 3 lungs, I'd love to know how many Bruno has.
He has two, just like every other player in our squad. Next question?
What an odd reply.
Factual and helpful.
Weird that mate.And trophy cabinet
How many do you reckon he’s got?
This is like guess how many coins are in the jar.
It’s absolutely wild how deep he is, at times deeper than the CBs and he’s our only real creative threat.
We need to get him back closer to the oppositions goal.
We need to get him back closer to the oppositions goal.
Continuously bails us out in a pool of shite.
The criticisms from outside are absolutely stupid. There are 99 things that are wrong before looking at Bruno. He isn’t perfect but he is our best player, by a country mile.
The criticisms from outside are absolutely stupid. There are 99 things that are wrong before looking at Bruno. He isn’t perfect but he is our best player, by a country mile.
How many does Park have?
It’s sad that Bruno has been at United during this rotten period in our history.
I would have loved to have seen him wear red when we were still a proper club. Always available, gives it everything, has so much quality, and yet is going to waste his best years with little chance of getting his hands on the major honours.
Says a lot about our current plight that there’s so little hope we now feel sympathy for the players.
I would have loved to have seen him wear red when we were still a proper club. Always available, gives it everything, has so much quality, and yet is going to waste his best years with little chance of getting his hands on the major honours.
Says a lot about our current plight that there’s so little hope we now feel sympathy for the players.
This is true. I think Bruno and Dalot are the only ones with the right physical level in this team. And the funny thing is, they’re the two playing insane minutes season in, season out.
Hopefully Dorgu also? We haven’t had a chance to see enough of him.
Can’t Bruno have 3?
Is that our last 7 goals in a row he's either scored or basically set up?
He keeps getting unfairly criticized by some sections of the fanbase, ex player pundits and media but keeps producing. The desire and hunger are out of this world. Where would we be without him.
He has to play closer to goal rather than his MF role he is playing in. As we saw, he can create a goal out of nothing. When Collyer and Mainoo are back, we should find a way to setup so he can play #10 with Zirkzee. Garna coming off the bench.
He has to play closer to goal rather than his MF role he is playing in. As we saw, he can create a goal out of nothing. When Collyer and Mainoo are back, we should find a way to setup so he can play #10 with Zirkzee. Garna coming off the bench.
Amazing left footed shot. Tried his best to drag us over the line again but not meant to be. Wish we had another attacking threat up top to bear the load of scoring goals. Hopefully Obi proves to be that option.
Ugarte, Dorgu, Amad and Yoro look promising in this regard.