{"id":440217,"date":"2023-07-20T15:31:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440217"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:31:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:31:26","slug":"fernandes-is-the-new-man-united-captain","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fernandes-is-the-new-man-united-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernandes is the new Man. United captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Fernandes will be the Red Devils&#8217; new captain from the upcoming season, the team shared today.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese midfielder replaced defender Harry Maguire, whom the head coach stripped from his role as captain after Maguire is rarely part of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> team squad.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bruno Fernandes&#8217; stats in the Premier League (124 apps):<\/p>\n<p>332 chances created<br \/>\n328 shots<br \/>\n77 through balls<br \/>\n44 goals<br \/>\n33 assists<br \/>\n\u26bd\ufe0f\/\ud83c\udd70\ufe0f every 139 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Portuguese Capit\u00e3o. \u00a9\ufe0f\u00a9\ufe0f\u00a9\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sTQ3meGejv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sTQ3meGejv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Statman Dave (@StatmanDave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StatmanDave\/status\/1682055263249915912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bruno, who has 64 goals and 54 assists for Man. In his 185 matches for the side in all tournaments, United was the captain when Harry was not on the field, who spent most of the past campaign on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester is ready to sell Maguire in the current transfer window and is waiting for West Ham to make an official bid, as the Hammers wanted the England international in the previous transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fernandes has already worn the armband for the Red Devils on many matches, and the manager has confirmed that he will now lead Manchester United permanently,&#8221; the team shared on their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Fernandes will be the Red Devils&#8217; new captain from the upcoming season, the team shared today. The Portuguese midfielder replaced defender Harry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":440219,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18039,16789,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17559,17886,11753],"acf":{"announce":"Bruno replaces Maguire as the club\u2019s new captain.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440217"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440217"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}