Manchester United Signed Big Characters Last Summer – Bruno Fernandes

Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes has hailed the club’s summer signings. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, the club clearly needed big characters after the disastrous outing last season, so he was pleased to see Manchester United invest in players who are well aware of how huge the club is.

Fernandes added that Sesko and Lammens also deserve praise for hitting the ground running at Old Trafford.

His words, “No, obviously. I think at this club, every time I spoke with anyone who was talking with me, they were asking we need to sign good players and everything else. We need to sign big characters, not good players because at this club, being good players sometimes is not enough because of the pressure, because of the attention we get and everything. I think we brought in players that are very aware of the dimension of the club. You spoke about Cunha. Cunha has that good arrogance to do the good things and the right things, so that’s something good. Bryan, also the same. He’s not afraid to take the ball, to do his play, to do his things. We brought two players who were aware of the Premier League, also.

And then we brought a very young goalkeeper and a centre-forward, they hit the ground flying (running). Obviously, we know Ben will be judged by scoring goals or not. But a part of that, he’s been doing great, whatever he’s being asked to do. He’s got his goals already, and I think now it’s going to come more and more because he’s more than capable of scoring goals. Senne came probably with the intention of being the number one. He had to wait for his moment. The moment came and he was ready for that. So this is what this club is about. You come, the moment will be there straightaway and you have to take it.

I think these four players were very good in taking that opportunity of ‘I want to be the one that is playing every week’. When we speak about Cunha, the thing of having the arrogance to say ‘give me the ball, I want to play, I want to make things’. With time, sometimes it won’t be good for people because I’ve been through that. He always wants the ball, he’s always doing this, he’s always doing that. But for us, on the inside, we want this Cunha. We want you to take the risks, to shoot, to take people on, to create.

Bryan, the same. ‘Bryan, just get your shots on’. Sometimes I get upset with him in training because he’s like, one touch more, one touch more and everything. I say, ‘Bryan, you don’t need that. You can one touch and shoot because you’re more than able to do that. You did that against us when you were at Brentford! You just have to make it for us now. The shirts have changed, but you’re the same player so we need that from you. Ben is very eager to learn and that’s very good from someone that has done very well in the Bundesliga and everything, came with the biggest, probably like the price tag and everything. But in his mind, he’s like, I want to learn, I want to become better. Then on the weekends, he transforms himself into a different person on the pitch. He’s someone that is like, ‘I know what I have to do. I want to score goals. I’m going to get into the box, I’m going to get into duels. I’m going to win my headers’. And that’s very important for us.”

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Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division in the English football league system.

Nicknamed the Red Devils, they were founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, but changed their name to Manchester United in 1902. After a spell playing in Clayton, Manchester, the club moved to their current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910.

Alex Ferguson and his assistant Archie Knox arrived from Aberdeen on the day of Atkinson’s dismissal, and guided the club to an 11th-place finish in the league. Despite a second-place finish in 1987–88, the club was back in 11th place the following season. Reportedly on the verge of being dismissed, Ferguson’s job was saved by victory over Crystal Palace in the 1990 FA Cup final.

The following season, Manchester United claimed their first UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup title. That triumph allowed the club to compete in the European Super Cup for the first time, where United beat European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1–0 at Old Trafford. The club appeared in two consecutive League Cup finals in 1991 and 1992 the left and the right, but he’s not got any sense of danger yet, and empties the midfield area too readily.