Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes has strongly rejected comments made by Roy Keane, accusing the former United skipper of putting a 'lie' into his mouth over the Portugal international's pursuit of the Premier League assists record.
Keane, speaking on podcast The Overlap after United's 3-2 win over Nottingham Forest, said Fernandes had told a post-match interviewer he had chosen to make passes rather than shoot and suggested that mindset showed he was chasing an individual record at the expense of team success. Keane added that such an approach made winning trophies unlikely and called the situation 'a circus act.'
Fernandes says those words were not his. He points to his actual post-match line — that there were moments when he should have passed instead of shooting, that he was happy for the assist but happier for the win and to finish the season strongly — and says everything is on record. Speaking on the Diary of a CEO podcast, he said he accepts criticism but will not tolerate being misquoted.
'Like I've always said, I don't mind criticism,' Fernandes said. 'People have an opinion. What I don't like is when people lie about things and in this case what Roy Keane said
