John David

It's just too early to tell, and I think Mourinho is a man to see this (and also doubt his age...), he played far too little games in the main team. He does some nice tricks, helped us unblock some games, but I'm not sure if his mentality is there. Another year at Sporting would have been great for him.

Agreed, Bruma only played about a dozen games at our top tier... his lack of experience was evident, a big move like this could possibly just hurt him. Bruma's brother plays for Tottenham, there has been some smoke about his age too.

Sporting fan here. Here is the whole Bruma story. Bruma was a promise young lad that did good in the B team, we are going through some bad times here at Sporting, so maybe he was called to the main team a bit too early. Bruma is a kid that lacked a proper education, he has a whole lot of vultures around him that messed with his head. Result: Bruma spat on the club that made him something out of nothing. The whole kidnapping thing is probably bullshit (or very far from the truth), Bruma's agents and lawyers and whatever used this story to twist Sporting's arm and are now claiming his contract isn't valid (we supposedly still have him for 1 more year), we now believe this kidnapping thing might be used to claim "mental instability to play at Sporting" or something along those lines, his agents are all shady people with only money in their minds. I would also like to share a very big rumor that is going on about Bruma's age, he is supposedly not as young as we think he is. A 18 year old with his talent is great (although far too early to tell), but what if he's a good few years older? Food for thought. Latest news we got in our forum is this: https://twitter.com/FutbolMercado_/status/356211895881043968

Bruma is a loose cannon, his agents/lawyers/leeches messed with his head. Bruma is kinda dead to us here. As a player he showed potential, sure, but not enough to cover all this hype - he is a kid that played a few games in the main team and did a few tricks, nothing more or less, far too early to tell if he's gonna make it. There is a rumor going around about his age as well, seems like Bruma should already be playing with the big boys , if you know what I mean.

He is a great player, extremely fast for his position (beat Ronaldo's speed record in our academy), every game he played I felt our defense was a lot better... I hope we can keep him another year .