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Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes has revealed an extremely selfless stance forward of the brand new 2025/26 season.
Fernandes shone for United in disastrous season
United endured a calamitous 2024/25 season that noticed them end a lowly fifteenth place within the Premier League – the membership’s worst ever end in additional than 5 many years.
United attained a mere 42 factors and completed the marketing campaign with a -10 purpose distinction, having suffered an embarrassing 18 top-flight defeats. Issues went from dangerous to worse for the Crimson Devils as a defeat to Tottenham Hotspur within the Europa League last ended their hopes of sneaking into the Champions League by the again door.
Nevertheless, Fernandes’ repute solely grew, with the playmaker recurrently pressured to step in because the group’s fire-fighter.
Typically when in bother, United appeared to their skipper to bail them out and he would nearly all the time oblige.
Fernandes registered a powerful 19 objectives and 19 assists throughout all competitions. He was named United’s Participant of the 12 months and Gamers’ Participant of the 12 months.
The 30-year-old was additionally a contender for the PFA Participant of the 12 months award alongside Mohamed Salah, Alexis Mac Allister, Alexander Isak, Declan Rice and Cole Palmer.
If United are to style success in 2025/26, Fernandes will possible be the important thing determine, although he has made it clear he would gladly sacrifice his private numbers if it meant the group carried out higher.
Fernandes’ remarks on sacrificing himself
Fernandes informed ESPN Brasil, “I hope you’ll hear much less about Bruno this yr, however much more about United. That’s my important goal as a result of my identify being spoken, let’s say vaguely alone, it doesn’t fill me with satisfaction or something.”
“United being talked about, being constructive, that’s an important factor and that’s what I need for this season. If it occurs that Bruno has to attain fewer objectives, present much less assists or do one other sort of provision of what’s vital for the video games, I might be very comfortable.”
There may be an air of optimism at United however Fernandes warned in opposition to being carried away, noting that there have been different false dawns at United over time.
“Yearly that I stayed right here, each time the season begins, I see this [positivity]. I imagine that it could possibly be a time of change, the place we will do one thing higher.”
“Most likely my first two seasons had been excellent, the place we actually believed that we may go additional and do higher issues. We had an excellent season with Erik [Ten Hag] in his first season, then within the second season it wasn’t so good.”
“Clearly, now individuals have joined the membership, not simply the gamers, but in addition workers and administration, who’ve a distinct imaginative and prescient. I hope that every one these adjustments and every part that we have now accomplished can carry the membership again to the place the place it actually deserves to be.”
Fernandes careworn that including extra objectives is essential, notably after a goal-shy 2024/25 season, however so is bettering the group’s defensive document.
“We now have extra objectives within the group as a result of we all know that we didn’t rating sufficient objectives final yr. However we additionally should know that we have now to defend higher in order to not undergo as many objectives as we conceded final yr.”
“And after I say defend higher, it’s not the defenders, however as a group. To know the way to undergo, to know the way to defend, to know the moments which are essential to have everybody behind the ball, to have everybody to make recoveries, to have everybody react rapidly after we lose it.”
United are again in motion on Sunday after they tackle Arsenal at Previous Trafford.
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