When Manchester United signed Bruno Fernandes at the end of January, they were fifth in the Premier League and trailed Leicester in third by 14 points. Nobody could possibly have foreseen the turnaround. Yet on a fraught final day of the league season, United completed it, getting the result they needed to secure a third-place finish and, in the process, condemn Leicester to fifth and heartbreak.
Fernandes’s impact has been little short of sensational. He is still to lose a league game in United’s colours and, fittingly, it was he who got the goal that put them en route to victory.