Bruno Fernandes has sent a tongue-in-cheek message back to Juan Mata after the Spaniard commented on his former Manchester United teammate taking his number eight shirt at Old Trafford.
Mata left United when his contract expired last month after eight-and-a-half years at the club. Having donned the number 10 at Chelsea, Mata adopted the number 8 upon his 2014 arrival.
It meant Fernandes couldn’t take up his favoured number when he arrived from Sporting Lisbon in January 2020. The 27-year-old was instead handed the number 18.
