{"id":194814,"date":"2025-12-16T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194814\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:38:07","slug":"bruno-fernandes-man-utd-captain-felt-hurt-and-believes-club-wanted-him-to-accept-al-hilal-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194814\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Fernandes: Man Utd captain felt ‘hurt’ and believes club ‘wanted him’ to accept Al-Hilal offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

“More than hurting me, it makes me sad,” Fernandes said. “I’m a player that no-one can criticise, I’m always available, I always give my best.<\/p>\n

“I could have left in this transfer window, I would have earned much more money.<\/p>\n

“I would have won many trophies this season, but I decided not to go, not only for family reasons but because I genuinely love the club.”<\/p>\n

Fernandes joined United in January 2020 for \u00a347m from Portuguese side Sporting and has made 307 appearances for the club, scoring 103 goals and providing 93 assists.<\/p>\n

This season, he has five goals and seven assists in the Premier League, including a brilliant free-kick strike and an assist in Monday’s 4-4 draw with Bournemouth.<\/a><\/p>\n

In June, Fernandes said one of the reasons he did not join Al-Hilal was because he wanted to continue to “play at the highest level”, and it was United boss Ruben Amorim who urged him to stay at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

However, Fernandes told Canal 11: “The club wanted me to leave. I told the directors that, I think they didn’t have the courage to make that decision because the manager wanted me.<\/p>\n

“But if I said I wanted to leave, even with the manager wanting me to stay, the club would let me.”<\/p>\n

Sources told BBC Sport that Manchester United have no desire to sell Fernandes or for him to leave and he continues to be central to the club’s long-term planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“More than hurting me, it makes me sad,” Fernandes said. “I’m a player that no-one can criticise, I’m…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-194814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}