Jill Scott believes Bruno Fernandes would be instructed to be far more positionally disciplined if he played for Manchester City.
The pundit chimed in on Fernandes’ habit of taking up a multitude of positions on the pitch during the latest episode of The Overlap’s Stick To Football show.
In November, Tim Sherwood claimed that Pep Guardiola would instil the “right attitude” into Bruno Fernandes to make him a player who is capable of playing under his guidance.
Jill Scott says Bruno Fernandes would be a lot more positionally disciplined at Manchester City
Back in August, Kevin De Bruyne also hailed the £47 million (BBC Sport) man as a “creative machine.”
However, the Portuguese midfielder’s performances have come under fire this season, with the pundits on The Overlap’s Stick To Football show discussing how his positional indiscipline may be harming Erik ten Hag’s tactical plans.
Jill Scott feels Bruno Fernandes would be tasked to operate under the guidelines of Pep Guardiola’s tactical framework at Manchester City.
“It would never happen”, she said.
Scott analysed, “He [Bruno Fernandes] must’ve been given the freedom to go and add a number but if you’re playing in that team, it’s so difficult when someone’s doing that and it’s so true with City. How many players could do that? Kevin De Bruyne, Phil Foden do it. But they’re never allowed because we played the same system from the men to the women’s team to the academy.”
“And I could still tell you all the patterns now and yeah, you get a bit of freedom but Kevin De Bruyne will operate mainly on that right-hand side of the pitch, he’s not running over to the left and just everything works together.”
Only Kevin De Bruyne is afforded such level of freedom
As Jill Scott said, Bruno Fernandes would have to adhere to his position if he played for Manchester City.
In our view, the only player who is given the license to roam where he best pleases is Kevin De Bruyne.
Recently, Pep Guardiola also revealed that the Belgian has the “freedom” to pick up areas where he instinctively feels he can do the most damage.
However, such freedom comes with the territory of being a genius of a player like De Bruyne.
Bruno Fernandes, however, has room for improvement before he can match one of the best attacking midfielders the sport has ever seen.
As a result, if Fernandes was at City, he would likely have to perform his creative duties from a designated area of the pitch that Guardiola deems best for him.
