Manchester United star Bruno Fernandes risks being a ‘talent always in the wrong place’ if he remains at the club long-term.
That’ at least according to journalist Fernando Urbano, who calls for ‘justice for Bruno Fernandes’ [in his column for A Bola today](https://www.abola.pt/opinioes/noticias/justica-para-bruno-fernandes-2025040118473596452), believing he is the best Portuguese player in the game at this moment in time.
He states that the Manchester United captain ‘risks going down in history as a talent always in the wrong place’ because of United’s current struggles.
He compares Fernandes to Vitinha, who is currently shining at Paris Saint Germain and argues that their careers only differ in the fact that he has been linked to winning projects while Fernandes has ‘distinguished’ himself playing for teams that ‘win little or nothing’.
That’s Sporting Club de Portugal and then Manchester United, whose current iteration’s only greatness is ‘its name and its badge’.
Urbano believes that having turned 30 in September, Fernandes knows he doesn’t have much longer to join dominant team whose DNA is to win trophies. It is because of this that there is ‘heightened interest’ in the recent claims that Real Madrid could move forward with a €100m move this summer.
The journalist does argue such a move would go against the idea, an ‘unfair’ one according to him, that Fernandes’ value is inflated because he is ‘a light int eh darkness’ at Manchester United.
Indeed, he hits out at the midfielder’s critics and believes those who aim jibes should watch him for the Portuguese national team to ‘understand the obvious’; that he is immensely talented and has been their most consistent footballer in the recent past.
It is because of that he believes it will be a loss if the next five years don’t give Fernandes everything he gave, aka trophies and success, as he will be remembered as a guy who was ‘always in the wrong place’ if it doesn’t.