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Bruno Fernandes has accused Roy Keane of telling a “lie” astir his pursuit of nan Premier League assists record. Manchester United’s skipper secured nan outright grounds for assists successful a play by taking his tally to 21 successful Sunday’s 3-0 triumph astatine Brighton.
The 31-year-old had equalled nan erstwhile record, shared by Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne, a week earlier during United’s 3-2 triumph complete Nottingham Forest. Keane suggested Fernandes was prioritising individual glory complete nan team’s interests, describing him arsenic being astatine nan centre of a “circus act”.
Speaking connected The Overlap podcast, Keane said: “After nan [Forest] crippled he sewage interviewed and he said, nan skipper of Manchester United said: ‘A fewer times, I astir apt should person changeable but I made them passes.’ Wow. How tin your mindset of a footballer beryllium going into a lucifer to beryllium astir an individual record? He won’t beryllium winning trophies, not pinch that mindset of nan team.”
Fernandes’s existent post-match remarks were: “There were astir apt moments coming erstwhile I should person passed alternatively of shot. I’m very happy for nan assist, but much than that, I’m happy for nan triumph and to decorativeness nan play connected a high.”
Fernandes said Keane, a erstwhile United captain, had put untrue “words successful my mouth”. He told The Diary of a CEO podcast: “Like I’ve ever said, I don’t mind criticism. I’ve ever taken disapproval from everyone and anyone and I ne'er reply to thing aliases whatsoever.
“People person an opinion; they deliberation it’s good, bad, whatever. What I don’t for illustration is erstwhile group dishonesty astir things and [in] this lawsuit that you said astir Roy Keane fundamentally what he said is simply a dishonesty because … either he saw immoderate different question and reply aliases he can’t opportunity that I said 1 point that I’ve conscionable not said and luckily for maine everything is connected record.
“I judge his criticism, I judge that he mightiness for illustration maine arsenic a subordinate aliases not, for illustration maine arsenic a personification aliases not. But what I don’t for illustration is that he puts words successful my rima that person not been said.”
Keane past appeared to stoke nan feud by posting connected Instagram: “Too overmuch attraction makes a donkey deliberation he’s a lion.”
Fernandes said he had contacted nan erstwhile United head Ole Gunnar Solskjær to inquire for Keane’s telephone number truthful he could reside nan issue. “I deliberation I’ve ever showed a batch of respect for Roy Keane and for everything he’s done for nan nine and for everything he’s ever said,” Fernandes said. “What I don’t for illustration is that group make their ain words connected what I opportunity and it’s not true.”
