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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 25
- Goals
- 5
- Assists
- 11
- Yellow cards
- 4
- Red cards
- 2
He'll be coached to do what? You think a 30 year old player will be fixed by coaching?
You think ETH instructs Bruno to do the things that you dont like? That is all Bruno. He is a good player but he isnt a perfect player and no manager is going to make him a perfect player.
His performance last night was awful again, he continously goes for the fancy pass with the outside of his boot and ends up passing it to noone instead of playing a basic pass to a team mate.
He isn't a captain. We come under pressure in games and it's always the same. He becomes the most hyper, unfocused, sloppiest, most panicked player on the pitch. The footballing equivalent of an hysterical girls blouse. No composure whatsoever. Panic booting balls all over the place like he had feet toutettes.
He has no leadership skills at all. You never see him talk to anyone; gee them up, have a go.
He has no leadership skills at all. You never see him talk to anyone; gee them up, have a go.
People saying he looks tired are deluded. We aren't asking him to run more, we are asking him to make a 10 yard pass consistently and accurately and he simply can't it's embarrassing for him and the club.
He is in a poor form. On merit he should be benched, armband or not
It's been the excuse for him for years. Any time he starts playing like shit people say he looks tired.
Indeed just like when Ole got sacked. The issue is we are trying to become a possession team and he isn’t a player who excels in one. He was great when we were a counter team.
It's very much the manager's fault if that manager leaves on a woefully underperforming player, and even worse, moves him to a position where he is totally unsuited, just to avoid the "controversy" of having to sub him.
Madness! Is there any other so-called major club in Europe that operates this policy?!
I've loved Bruno playing for us. He was a breath of fresh air when he arrived. Something is wrong in his current game, though. Something is sapping the creativity and leaving us with the Bruno who misplaces passes all over the pitch. I don't know if he needs more tactical discipline (i.e., told to not chase the ball), or he needs more solid midfielders around him, but it's not working for him. He should be benched until the coaching staff figures it out. When Bruno has a bad game, we collapse in spectacular fashion, so the coaches should determine exactly how to give Bruno what he needs. Lately it has looked like Bruno just goes wherever and whenever he wants, a completely free role in the team.
Same way Rashford is suddenly playing through an injury that the club haven't told us about.
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He is always going for the most difficult pass there is. If you miss two in a row, play the next 5 passes safe, until you get a feel for the setup and the movement of the opposition, and get a bit of confidence back. He keeps trying the same thing over and over, with the same result. It's like he has a two-touch rule where he has to get rid of the ball, regardless of the fact if the opposition defense is in place, or if he has a player in the right position to pass it to. This is just shocking to me.
If this is bruno playing tired, imagine how crap he'd be when hes not tired. He would be attempting even more of his atroicious passes and shots.
But it is what it is. According to his #1 fanboy (@Pogue Mahone ), Bruno is incredible and anyone who says otherwise is misinformed. He will most definitely be one of the posters strutting about in here when one of these 239284923 attempted trivela 360 no scope through balls finally hits the target for an assist!
Will be worth a celebration for sure. Just hope it's sooner rather than later.
I'd hate to play alongside him, he's always moaning and screaming at someone. Even when he makes a mistakes he starts screaming at whoever is close to him.
Not true in the slightest. He's always at it to the forward players when the ball has gone out of play or after a move has broken down etc.
This is not leadership, it is shifting the blame from himself.
It's what sets him apart from true world class players, his bottom level that is. He is absolutely dreadful when he is not on song. You will never see KDB have that kind of game he just had against Twente.
In that's the example of him being a leader, he should be stripped of the captain armband right away. Imagine a guy who lost the ball over 50 times in the last 2 games screaming on someone because the ball went out of play
It was countering the claim that he never talks to anyone, which is highly inaccurate.In that's the example of him being a leader, he should be stripped of the captain armband right away. Imagine a guy who lost the ball over 50 times in the last 2 games screaming on someone because the ball went out of play
Too many horribly sloppy performances from our supposed ‘main man’. No doubt he's a good and sometimes exceptional player, but its hardly ever for 90 minutes, and just having him in the team will always make our midfield look like some 1990’s regen.
I think he's more suited to ‘top football’ in a B-tier league. He'd be great at Inter, Juve, Atletico, but we should have said ‘thanks very much’ in the summer instead of falling down the trap of a multi-year contract.
Good player, but signing Ugarte, De Jong, or peak fecking Redondo will not have us competing for the league while he is playing for us at number 10.
… and it should only take 5-20 minutes of watching any part of any game to see that.
I think he's more suited to ‘top football’ in a B-tier league. He'd be great at Inter, Juve, Atletico, but we should have said ‘thanks very much’ in the summer instead of falling down the trap of a multi-year contract.
Good player, but signing Ugarte, De Jong, or peak fecking Redondo will not have us competing for the league while he is playing for us at number 10.
… and it should only take 5-20 minutes of watching any part of any game to see that.
He is a chancer. When it comes off, it looks world class. When it doesn't, as it most of the cases lately, he doesn't know how to snap out of it.
He has averaged 26 lost balls per game. This is unsustainable, if you want to build attacks, and sustain pressure in the opposition third. I'd be livid if there was a player like him in my 5+1 futsal team, who keeps losing the ball every 2 minutes. The fact that there is no reaction from the sidelines to what he is doing is shocking to me.
He has averaged 26 lost balls per game. This is unsustainable, if you want to build attacks, and sustain pressure in the opposition third. I'd be livid if there was a player like him in my 5+1 futsal team, who keeps losing the ball every 2 minutes. The fact that there is no reaction from the sidelines to what he is doing is shocking to me.
As I said in the ten hag thread, if ETH doesn't drop Bruno, ETH is done
It's the rashford excuse, magical manager will teach rashford to give a shit and teach bruno that looking slick and sexy for the highlights reel is not as important as doing simple stuff that helps the team win.
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How about "The Poster Formerly Known As Bruno Fernandes"?
I said that about Rashford last season but here we are.
Watching City's game in opposition half, patiently parking around opposition box, no hollywood pass or trying killer pass every now and then, gradually moving into the box, players know the technique of how to shield the ball with body, there are mistakes but the number is manageable.
And here we have captain Bruno who wants the ball all the time and then is so determine to kill our attack with his misplaced passes. Forget winning, how are we supposed to survive match after match having this man in our team?
And here we have captain Bruno who wants the ball all the time and then is so determine to kill our attack with his misplaced passes. Forget winning, how are we supposed to survive match after match having this man in our team?
The fact that I've seen people who genuinely think we'd have been in relegation scraps without Bruno in the team speaks to how unbelievably overrated he is. His Hollywood balls are the sometimes-effective remedy to the illness that his positional indiscipline creates. Arguably our greatest midfielder of all time called him out for exactly this against Newcastle away last season:
Keane called him out for similar, separately:
Can't post links/source due to being a newbie but two of our greatest ever central midfielders think it's Bruno that has a problem with positional indiscipline rather than his positioning being a Ten Hag instruction. There was a moment in the Liverpool match last year where he closed down their goalkeeper even though he had a virtually zero chance of getting the ball before the keeper kicked it away. Our midfielder, leaving a huge hole in our midfield. That's not a Ten Hag instruction, it's just stupidity. One thing I've never criticised Bruno for us his overall workrate. He works very hard, at messing up our team's structure. Liverpool proceeded to play through the gap in our midfield he created, another United player managed to get a foot to the ball and it landed to Bruno who finally got back into position, only for him to dribble the ball for about 5 yards before hastily passing it straight to a Liverpool player because he knows he can't keep the ball for much longer than that. They then quicky forged a good opportunity from it
I only say I won't criticise him for his 'overall workrate' because we all know he has a reputation for giving up when we're a few goals down. Coincidentally the constant maulings we've been on the receiving end of only really started when he arrived and he's been a common denominator in virtually all of them. What a shocker
Needs “resting” in my view. Might be best to control the game more the way we are set up.
Need resting when we just began the season!
Yes, “resting”.
Bruno in our first year or 2 was like Palmer at Chelsea now. If we can ever get him to perform like that, our team would transform
He needs to go back to the U-21s to learn to play 5 yard passes and not be a liability.
Only way that may happen is to bring back the messy counter attacking stuff Ole had us playing. Bruno thrives in a chaotic style because he's a chaotic player. I hope we move him on, and move on from the shit on a stick football we've had to endure for over a decade now.
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He was never like Palmer, he didn’t score multiple hatricks and four goals in games, he was just good like Palmer at Penalties but nothing else, Palmer is miles better than Bruno will or has ever been, let’s not get delusional here?
I don't think he played anything like him.
Correct decision to start him. Let's go Bruno
It's the game that should suit him. If he can't perform here, he's got a big problem.