Bruno Fernandes was unable to inspire Manchester United to victory in the Europa League final against Tottenham in Bilbao and the Red Devils captain has made a revelation about his future
Bruno Fernandes has admitted he would understand if Manchester United decided to sell him this summer. The United skipper is adamant that he is happy to stay at Old Trafford despite having to face up to a season without ANY European football.
But he also said he would accept a situation in which the United hierarchy decided it would be best to try and recoup some money for their star midfielder, who turns 31 in September. Fernandes said: “If the club thinks it’s time to part ways because they want to do some cashing in or whatever, it is what it is. And football sometimes is like this.
“I have always been honest. I’ve always said I will be here until the club says to me that it’s time to go. I’m eager to do more, to be able to bring the club to the great days. In the day that the club thinks that I’m too much or it’s time to part ways, football is like this, you never know it. But I’ve always said it and I keep my word in the same way.”
It is the first time Fernandes – who joined the club in January, 2020 and whose current contract has two years left to run with a one-year extension option – has talked about the possibility that he might move away from Old Trafford. And his situation could become more complicated if Ruben Amorim ends up leaving this summer.
But that is not a prospect that would be welcomed by Fernandes, even though he acknowledges that the disastrous string of results has put his countryman under severe pressure. Fernandes said: “We (the players) just agreed that he’s the right man. He has done a lot of good things. We know that the manager is looked at by the results.
“But we see more than that as players. We know for everyone it will be about him bringing back the positivity in the club – to try to bring the club back to fight for trophies, fight for the big trophies. And we all agree that he’s the right man.
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“It’s not my decision but I do think the manager is the right one and I don’t think that it will be a better person to come into the job and do the job. I know it’s difficult to understand that, it’s difficult to see that.
“And I do think that the club is in a situation where it’s easier to get a different one in because the results haven’t been there. But as my other teammates have said – and I repeat myself – I do think he’s the right man.”
Fernandes was unable to inspire his team in Bilbao and described the 1-0 defeat to Spurs as ‘cruel’. In the wake of the loss, he said: “It’s a very sad day because we’ve done some very good things in this competition until today.
“But today was the day that mattered, the most important day of the competition. It was the day we could have been in the history of the Europa League, but it’s not like that. And football is cruel, and it’s been our turn to lose.”
