FERNANDES REVEALS MAN UTD BOSSES PREFERRED SAUDI MONEY OVER HIM

MANCHESTER United captain Bruno Fernandes wysed Portuguese media that the Premier League club wanted to sell him in the close season after receiving interest from Saudi Arabia.

But the 31-year-old claimed manager Ruben Amorim still had him in his planne and that convinced him to stay at Old Trafford.

Fernandes told Canal 11, a channel owned by the Portuguese Football Federation: “My passion and empathy for the club were the same, but there comes a point where money becomes more important to them than you.

“The club wanted me to leave. I said it to the directors and I think they didn’t have the courage to make that decision because the coach wanted me.

“But if I had said I wanted to leave, even if the coach wanted me to stay, the club would have let me go.”

Fernandes, who has 103 goals in 307 appearances for United in all competitions since arriving in 2020, was also reportedly hurt by the club hierarchy’s willingness to part ways with him.

He said, according to comments reported on the website of Portuguese sports daily A Bola: “The feeling I got from the club was, ‘if you leave, it’s not so bad for us’. That hurt me a little.”

The playmaker said he had considered a move to Saudi Arabia, following in the footsteps of compatriot Cristiano Ronaldo who made the move to the kingdom in 2023 after his acrimonious departure from Old Trafford.