Bruno Fernandes has said he intends to stay at Manchester United and wants the club back where he believes it belongs: winning major trophies. The 31-year-old midfielder, United’s most influential player this season, said the target next year has to be clear after he finished with 19 Premier League assists and helped the club return to the Champions League.
Fernandes, who joined from Sporting CP in January 2020, said he came to Old Trafford because he believed United could challenge for the biggest prizes. “Obviously going into next season, we all know that the aim of this club always has to be winning,” he said. “That’s a big feeling and it’s a big thing to walk out at Old Trafford and that was the dream I had but I had that dream because I knew the club could win things and be close to winning the Premier League and Champions League. That’s why I came to this club.”
His comments arrive after a season in which he was again at the center of United’s attack, providing 19 league assists across 35 Premier League appearances as the team recovered enough to secure a return to the Champions League. Fernandes was also the subject of considerable transfer speculation last summer, but his latest remarks point in the opposite direction. He said he wants to stay at the club and keep chasing the league and the Champions League, not just settle for a place in the squad.
The Portugal international has already collected the FA Cup and League Cup during his time in England, but he fell short of Europa League glory last season and made clear that he sees that as part of a larger unfinished job. “I speak out whenever I want on what I want to achieve and what I want to achieve is winning the league and winning the Champions League,” he said. For United, that is a sharper standard than survival, and it leaves no room for a quiet year.
That ambition lands at a time when Michael Carrick reportedly edges closer to becoming permanent manager, adding another layer to a club still trying to settle its direction. Fernandes has long been linked with the team’s future at Old Trafford despite the noise around him, and his latest stance suggests that, for now, he expects to be part of whatever comes next. The question is no longer whether he belongs in the project. It is whether United can finally match the demands of the player who has carried so much of it.
