Bruno Fernandes on his character, Ten Hag, captaincy, Ronaldo, Solskjaer, Rangnick and more

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Manchester United midfielder Bruno Fernandes sits down with The Athletic's Adam Crafton for an exclusive in-depth conversation on topics ranging from Bruno's mindset and attitude when on the pitch, his view of why life under Erik ten Hag started so badly, how it's turned around so quickly, how it feels to be handed the captain's armband, and his relationship with teammate Cristiano Ronaldo. There's also fascinating insight from Fernandes on how he uses the referee as a reference for finding space on the pitch, his thoughts on what went wrong for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, why it didn't go well for Ralf Rangnick, and much more besides Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The athletic.
0:02.0	What you see on the beach is the Bruno that is passionate for the game, the Bruno that wants to win the game.
0:11.0	That's it. I play against Wolf, they have many Portuguese players.
0:14.0	If I have to kick them, I will kick them.
0:15.6	If I have to moan at them, I will moan.
0:17.2	It's the game, it's the way I leave the game, it's the way I have to be.
0:21.4	I demand a lot from me. I don't demand more to anyone than myself, but because I demand so much from myself and I know that my teammates demand from me, I demand from them.
0:32.0	Two first games of the season I have a high pass accuracy.
0:35.0	No one talked about because we lost the game.
0:38.0	Bruno didn't assist.
0:39.0	Bruno didn't score problems.
0:41.0	When I scored a goal against S, I had a low-past
0:44.9	accuracy and probably not my best game, but because I scored it was like oh
0:49.8	Bruno did a great game.
0:50.9	Hello I'm Mark Chapman.
0:53.0	Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast
0:55.2	coming up.
0:55.6	You're going to hear Bruno Fernandez
0:57.8	talking exclusively to the athletics Adam Crafton.
1:01.5	Adam is with us now. Was he what you expected?
1:06.0	That's, I think that's really interesting because I think when you watch Bruno Fernandez on the pitch, I think a lot of people have this impression now of someone who, you know, he's moaning
1:15.2	at referees, he looks like he's all a bit exasperated, particularly over the last year where things
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