Bruno Fernandes: Man United Are Made To Win Trophies
Man United are made to win trophies, says the Red Devils midfielder Bruno Fernandes.
The Portugues, who quickly turned into a key player for United after his transfer from Sporting Lisbon last year, hopes that the team will soon go through this semifinal barrier and win titles. Fernandes has 35 goals and 22 assists in 68 games in all competitions but still hasn’t won anything with United.
Last year the 20 times Premier League champions got eliminated in the FA Cup semifinal and League Europe, while this year, they were stopped by Man City in the Carabao Cup semifinal. The last time when Man United lifted a trophy was in 2017 when they won League Europa.
United still have a little way to go before mounting a serious title challenge, but they remain on course to finish second this term for only the second time in eight seasons since Sir Alex Ferguson retired. They will end this season without a domestic trophy but are favourites to win the Europa League, and there’s enough evidence to suggest that both short and long term progress has been made.
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“It’s tough in England because the games are so tight. Every team genuinely has a chance to win the match. It’s 50/50 before every game, and we see it with the results. But we’re doing better,” Fernandes told FourFourTwo.
“We can’t drop as many points as we do at home, but we’ve been in second, and at the start of the season, there weren’t many people who were saying United would be second.
“After a few games and a bad start, nobody was saying United could reach the top of the table, but we ignored what people were saying on the outside.
“We knew what we had said on the inside, we had confidence that things would improve, and they did. We still have to be the best United we can, but we have improved.”
Fernandes has firmly bought into the club’s philosophy geared towards winning trophies and is adamant that… “We can’t think of anything else at this club.”
He added: “United is made for trophies, and the whole mood is around that. We reached the semis [of the League Cup] and lost to City, but that’s not enough. That wasn’t our time – we need to be in finals and to win them.”
It is clear that United are still not at the same level as Manchester City or even Liverpool. Still, we can see that there has been some positive progress since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer arrived in Manchester and that they are on the right path to get back where they use to be on the top.
Petar Leykov
