Man Utd captain Bruno Fernandes given new deadline over £200m transfer move

Bruno Fernandes could be set to earn £700,000-a-week tax-free at his new club (Picture: Getty)

Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes has been given a new deadline over a £200m transfer move to Saudi side Al-Hilal, according to reports.

Al-Hilal are prepared to hand Fernandes an eye-watering £700,000-a-week – which would be tax-free – as part of a package worth up to an incredible total of £200m to the Portuguese star over three years.

If Fernandes accepts the lucrative offer, the Saudi Pro League club will make a formal approach to United with a bid in the region of £100m.

But there’s a twist with Al-Hilal keen to get the deal done as soon as possible, giving Fernandes a deadline of just 72 hours to make his mind up, the Daily Mail have reported.

Fernandes has been United’s best player this season by some distance but after the club’s abysmal 2024-25 campaign, in which they finished 15th without any silverware, the 30-year-old midfielder could be heading off.

Speaking after United lost the Europa League final to Tottenham last week, Fernandes suggested that he may be leaving Old Trafford this summer.

Fernandes’ United teammates, though, have been begging him to stay with concerns that the dressing room would ‘fall apart’ if he is sold to Al-Hilal.

Bruno Fernandes’ future at Man Utd is massively up in the air (Picture: Shutterstock)

Football pundit and former Liverpool star Jamie Redknapp has urged Ruben Amorim to sell Fernandes amid the Saudi Arabian transfer interest.

Speaking on Sky Sports after the final Premier League games of the season, Redknapp said: ‘It tells you everything when you look and go through that squad and think to yourself, how many of them would you not sell this summer?

‘I think apart from Leny Yoro, purely because he hasn’t been there long and he’s a young player, I think every single United player will be up for sale.’

Bruno Fernandes was Man Utd’s best player in the 2024-25 campaign (Picture: Getty)

Asked whether that included Fernandes, Redknapp added: ‘I would right now yeah and I’m a big fan.

‘I think he’s a game-changer but I think if the right money came about and you could then invest into the squad and I think he is a good player, I think he’s a top footballer.

‘He was poor in midweek, but he has been their leading light this year but if the right money were to come available and you can improve your squad.

‘I would certainly take it.’

After United’s Europa League final defeat, Fernandes himself said: ‘I will be here until the club tells me it is time to leave.

‘I am available to make the club have great days again.

‘The day the club thinks I am too much, or it is time to leave, football is like that and you never know.

‘If the club thinks it is time to leave, because they want to make some money, that is what it is and football is like that sometimes.’