{"id":245801,"date":"2025-09-22T07:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/245801\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:27:11","slug":"bruno-fernandes-has-joined-elite-list-now-one-of-four-man-utd-midfielders-in-history-with-brilliant-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/245801\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Fernandes has joined elite list, now one of four Man Utd midfielders in history with brilliant achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Bruno Fernandes will go down as one of the best Manchester United signings since Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps even the very best.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A chequered transfer history over the past 12 years means there have been more misses than hits in Manchester United\u2019s recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>One shining light was a transfer struck in 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/news\/bruno-fernandes-fee-add-ons-how-much-money-man-utd-have-paid-to-sporting-since-he-signed-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the deal to bring Bruno Fernandes to the club<\/a> from Sporting.<\/p>\n<p>Now a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/news\/bruno-fernandes-wins-man-utd-player-of-the-year-award-hes-done-what-only-two-stars-have-ever-done-before\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four-time Manchester United player of the year<\/a>, Fernandes keeps on setting individual milestones, including scoring his 100th goal for the club.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2235951317-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Bruno Fernandes hypes up Manchester United fans at Old Trafford.\" class=\"wp-image-298644\" \/>Photo by Simon Stacpoole\/Offside\/Offside via Getty ImagesOne of four midfielders to score 100 goals for Manchester United<\/p>\n<p>Bruno Fernandes has done incredibly well to reach 100 goals for the club, completing his century with a strike from open play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/match-coverage\/five-things-learned-as-manchester-united-beat-chelsea-2-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">against Chelsea in a 2-1 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes now ranks joint 21st all-time in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/records\/manchester-uniteds-all-time-leading-goalscorers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United goalscoring list<\/a>, level on 100 goals with Joe Cassidy and George Wall \u2013 who both represented the club before World War One.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese star has managed what Bryan Robson didn\u2019t, with \u2018Captain Marvel\u2019 agonisingly stuck on 99 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes is among an elite group, as one of four midfielders to score 100 goals during their Manchester United careers.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links multi\">\n<li><strong>Sir Bobby Charlton:<\/strong> 249 goals in 758 games<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryan Giggs:<\/strong> 168 goals in 963 games<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Scholes:<\/strong> 155 goals in 718 games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fernandes\u2019 current numbers are 100 goals in 296 games. He is scoring at a faster pace than any of the three United legends.<\/p>\n<p>The one major difference is the achievements of Charlton, Giggs and Scholes, who each won multiple league titles and at least one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/records\/every-trophy-won-by-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless it is incredible company for Fernandes to be in, and puts his performances and goal input into context, to be doing it in a struggling Manchester United team.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes closing in on 300 appearance milestone<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes is currently just four games away from the milestone 300 appearances-mark for the club, which he is set to reach in early October.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/news\/spanish-press-react-to-devastating-10-10-marcus-rashford-performance-for-barcelona-in-champions-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on loan Marcus Rashford<\/a>, who has 426 appearances, Bruno Fernandes has played more games for the club than anybody in the Red Devils\u2019 squad.<\/p>\n<p>This includes longest-serving player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/luke-shaw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke Shaw<\/a>, who signed for United six years earlier, who has 292 appearances to Fernandes\u2019 296.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Fernandes will go down as one of the best Manchester United signings since Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":245802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[38454,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-245801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-bruno-fernandes","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115246769421548399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}