Man United: Solskjaer discusses Bruno Fernandes transfer
Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer remained coy over the club’s attempts to sign Bruno Fernandes. Express Sport understands the Red Devils are nearing a £50million agreement with Sporting Lisbon, with £15m of potential add-ons.
Sporting’s president Frederico Varandas and sporting director Hugo Viana held talks at United’s London office on Friday.
Fernandes played, and scored twice, in Sporting’s 3-1 win over Setubal on Saturday night.
The Portuguese side are keen to keep their captain until at least Friday night’s game against Benfica but they need to sell him this month to balance books.
Solskjaer hinted that negotiations had not progressed over the last few days as he spoke at his pre-FA Cup press conference.
“I’ve got no transfer updates, so no,” Solskjaer said.
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Wolves have gone five matches unbeaten against Solskjaer’s side and the head coach is desperate to end the barren run.
“We’ve played them so many times so we’re gonna be facing a team that know more or less everything about us,” Solskjaer said.
“We’ve got them in a couple of weeks in the league. We played a decent first half last week, second half was disappointing, but at home we wanna make sure we go through.
“This tournament is one we dream about winning when we are young, loved my time in finals and winning trophies so we wanna go through.”
United can see the light at the end of a hectic fixture list but Solskjaer may have to rotate his side against Wolves.
Bruno Fernandes is closing in on a move to Man Utd (Image: GETTY)
“Results give you energy, for me I’m fine, I only have to see you before and after the game… just counting, it’s our 14th game in 45 days,” he explained.
“We’ve still got five or six games before the winter break, it’s relentless, 18 games in less than 60 days which is physically and mentally demanding, we have to energise them.
“One good result and performance like Norwich, they felt good about them, bad results have to be used as a motivation, as in we’re not there yet need to keep improving.
“Just need the rhythm. When I was playing I felt us as a team got rhythm of match rest match rest, I never got that physical thing. Players like Roy, Scholesy and Gary improved.”