In an attempt to rebuild after Manchester United’s devastating loss to Tottenham in the Europa League final, Bruno Fernandes has offered to leave the team if they need to cash in on him.
Brennan Johnson’s goal on Wednesday caused United to lose 1-0 in Bilbao, adding to the team’s dismal season.
According to manager Ruben Amorim, he would leave “without any conversation about compensation” if the team no longer wanted him.
Knowing that United needs to restructure its playing staff in spite of financial limitations, his 30-year-old captain has now done the same.
“My honesty has never wavered. I’ve always maintained that I’ll stay until the club tells me it’s time to leave,” Fernandes remarked.
“I’m eager to do more, to be able to bring the club to the great days. On the day that the club thinks that I’m too much or it’s time to part ways, football is like this, you never know it.
“But I’ve always said it, and I keep my word in the same way. If the club thinks it’s time to part ways because they want to do some cashing in or whatever, it is what it is, and football sometimes is like this.”
“We wanted to win more than anything in this final,” he said. “It’s a very sad day because we’ve done some very good things in this competition until today.
“But today (Wednesday) was the day that mattered, the most important day of the competition. It was the day we could have been in the history of the Europa League, but it’s not like that. And football is cruel, and it’s been our turn to lose.”
Notwithstanding United’s dismal performance since moving to Old Trafford in November, the midfielder, who joined the team in 2020, maintained that his portueguese coach, Amorim was still the best candidate to be its manager.
Under his leadership, United have only managed six league victories and is currently in 16th place in the Premier League, heading for their lowest finish since relegation in 1974.
“We (the players) just agreed that he’s the right man,” said Fernandes. “He has done a lot of good things. We know that the manager is looked at by the results.
“Obviously, we see more than that as players. We know that for everyone, it will be about him bringing back the positivity in the club.
“To try to bring the club back to fight for trophies, fight for the big trophies. And we all agree that he’s the right man.”