The Portuguese midfielder is the expensive, talented player United actually needed, a
Paul Pogba who wants to be there
For Bruno Fernandes this must have felt a bit like a coronation. For the last two months there have been rumours of the rebirth of the
Manchester United midfield, of gears beginning to clunk into place, those oddly assembled component parts finding their rhythms. The Manchester United midfield? Yeah, I remember that. Oh no, it’s been years now.
Well, look again. At a damp and increasingly boisterous Old Trafford, Fernandes produced a central midfield performance that seemed to go against the tide of the last decade or so. So often United’s declining fortunes have been characterised by something ponderous at the heart of the team, a club drained not just of success, but of spirit and invention.