Bruno Fernandes future: Man Utd captain has lost fans' respect after Carrick attack

Manchester United fans hurling abuse at Bruno Fernandes shows that he has lost their respect for turning on Michael Carrick.

As Paul Scholes now says, "all trust in him has now gone" after the captain made a point of publicly criticising the manager after the Como defeat last week.

Fernandes has been playing poorly this season and for many he had deserved to be substituted in previous matches before the Champions League game in Italy.

But when he did go off after another disappointing display, he was shaking his head and showing petulance.

It was an attitude as though he was more important than the team, and that carried through to when he called out the tactics later.

Carrick took the firm action to drop Fernandes and not bring him on in the Bournemouth clash where again United were woeful.

But at the end the fans still cheered for Carrick, as come what may for the club, he has always given his all - but the same can't be said for the players.

And the players, in particular Bruno were jeered.

"What he did was unforgivable really you think of a captain and a manager, that is a big relationship, that is Michael's link to the dressing room, so for him to come out and question what Michael was doing tactically was so out of order it was untrue," says Scholes.

"Michael will be trusting Bruno, because when Bruno goes out he is almost like the extension of Michael on the football pitch, so whatever Michael wants or his staff wants then he carries it out, and so for him to question that..."

And on the Bournemouth game, Scholes continued: "I was wondering what he was going to do was he going to play him, was he going to leave him out of the squad fully.

"I actually think what he did was quite good not leaving him out but not bringing him on, because that will have hurt Bruno, that will have killed him because he has watched them getting beaten, 2-0, 3-0, Zirkzee coming on, Shea Lacey coming on, I think five subs coming on before he did, and that will be in the pit of his stomach."

"The United fans will never turn against Michael, just because what he did as a player, and last season.

"But you saw them turn against a player, I haven't seen the likes of that really, you saw people giving abuse at Bruno and because he has lost that trust, for Bruno moving forward, whatever manager it is how can you trust him? You can't all trust has gone."

Speaking after the Como defeat, Fernandes said it was the staff’s decision “not to press man-to-man and sometimes leave a little bit of space in behind”.

United boss Carrick said on Wednesday evening: “We actually half-pressed man-to-man in the second half and then conceded a goal from that.

“And there’s a little bit on whatever system you play, whatever tactics you play, if you don’t run, and you don’t run forward, and you don’t run back, you aren’t going to win.”

Carrick refused to be drawn on Fernandes’ outburst – or the prospect of dropping him – at Friday’s pre-match press conference, pledging to “always do what’s best for the football club”.