Bruno Fernandes is again being linked with a move away from Man Utd and he left the door open to a potential departure after the Europa League final defeat.
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Bruno Fernandes will leave Manchester United if the club decide to cash in on him this summer
Bruno Fernandes has told Manchester United he is willing to go if the club want to cash in on him this summer and end his stay at Old Trafford.
The 30-year-old has been linked with a sensational move to Al-Hilal in the Saudi Pro League in a transfer that would transform the financial picture at United, and Fernandes has said he would be willing to leave if club officials decide the time is right to cash in.
Fernandes has given his best years to United and is closing in on 300 appearances for the club, but he hasn't got the rewards his performances deserve and defeat in Wednesday's Europa League final means he will have to forego a season in the Champions League next term.
United's captain turns 31 in September and although he insists he is happy to remain a part of the Old Trafford rebuild under Ruben Amorim, he has just two years remaining on his contract, with the option of a further year, and they look further away than ever from returning to the top of the domestic game.
With defeat in Bilbao meaning United now miss out on Champions League revenues, United will seek to raise funds elsewhere to boost Amorim's transfer kitty and that could make any huge offer for Fernandes a tempting one.
"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," he said.
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"I'm eager to do more, to be able to bring the club 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.
"If the club thinks it's time to part ways because they want to do some cashing in or whatever, it's what it is, and football sometimes is like this."
Fernandes has so often been the hero for United in recent years but he struggled to stamp his authority on proceedings against Tottenham in Bilbao.
"It’s very sad. We wanted to win more than anything in this final," 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."
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