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Every word Michael Carrick said ahead of Brighton vs Manchester United fixture
Bruno Fernandes returned to Manchester United with a bee in his bonnet last summer. The captain was back for pre-season and threw himself into training, but some around the club felt you could see that what had happened a few weeks earlier was still in the back of his mind.
It was an inauspicious start to what has turned out to be Fernandes’ greatest ever season. His masterpiece began with the nagging feeling that United actually wanted him to go to Saudi Arabia at the end of the 2024/25 season, and eventually, he went public with that view in a bombshell interview in Portugal in December. It is a view that has some sympathy around the club, whatever the public claims.
At that stage of the season, Fernandes was still being recast as a deep-lying midfielder under Ruben Amorim, and when the interview was carried out, he had five assists in the Premier League. It didn’t look then like 2025/26 would end with the 31-year-old etching his name into Premier League folklore.
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