BRUNO FERNANDES moaned Manchester United are not good enough to win trophies in a damning assessment of their season.
The Portuguese playmaker, 26, has been a sensation at Old Trafford since his arrival in January 2020.
But despite his personal performances, United have not translated that into silverware and lost in the semi-finals of the League Cup, FA Cup and Europa League last season.
They did the same again in the League Cup this term, were knocked out of the Champions League group stages and then crashed out of the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
And Fernandes fronted up to the reality of the Red Devils falling short in their pursuit of cups.
He appeared on talkSPORT on Wednesday morning and said: “The improvement you have to see game by game not season by season. For us, it is improving as a team.
“Of course we want to win trophies, we want to win everything we are included in. At the moment, we are not at that level this season.
“We have lost a lot of games. We have lost games we don’t expect to lose and have lost a lot of points at home and away our form is really, really different.
“I don’t remember if we have lost one game away. We are improving and this season is not finished and we have a lot to do until the end of the season.”
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men were dumped out of the Carabao Cup by Manchester City again this year before Leicester booked their FA Cup semi-final spot at United’s expense.
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The Red Devils face Granada in the Europa League quarters and do sit second in the Premier League table – but are 14 points adrift of their runaway Manchester neighbours with eight games to go.
Fernandes, though, insists they have not given up on ending their four-year trophy drought.
He continued: “Until it is not mathematically possible, you have to believe so when I see it is not possible to catch City, I will forget the league.
“It’s never a success when you win just one trophy at this club. In the past we have won a lot of trophies.
“It is always successful when you win something because it means you have done something good but, at the same time, it doesn’t matter how many trophies you win, you always have to improve.
“It doesn’t matter if this season we won four trophies, we would still need to improve.
“If this season we win just the Europa League, we still need to improve. It doesn’t matter how many trophies we win, we have to improve every season.”
Fernandes has 23 goals and 14 assists this season, continuing his red-hot form since his arrival for £55million.
And it is clear he is enjoying working under the management team of Solskjaer and first-team coach Michael Carrick.
The ex-Sporting man added: “In the beginning you never know how the season will end or how it will go but I am really happy with what I am doing for the club and also for the improvement the club is helping me to have.
“For every player in the team, Solskjaer is influential.
“At the beginning he was important because he told me to express myself, don’t be afraid to do what I was doing at Sporting and to be myself, and that is really important for a player to feel that confidence from the coach.
“Carrick was a top player and he can help to improve every player here. We have a lot to learn from him.
“I really appreciated his qualities as a player and now I am happy to have him as a coach to help me to improve and pass on his experience as a player.”
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
