“Cristiano the best Portuguese? Now he is Bernardo Silva”

Despite being immersed in a very tough repechage process to try to reach the World Cup in Qatar, the Portuguese team has a historic generation. With Cristiano Ronaldo as a walking ‘legend’, the neighboring country has players of the stature of Bruno Fernandes, Ruben Dias, Joao Cancelo, João Félix and Bernardo Silva among others.

This golden generation is going through a bad time as a team, but several of its members stand out competing against each other every week in the Premier League, which brings together almost all the great Portuguese talents.

The arrival of Cristiano as a prodigal son of United and English football ‘revolutionized’ the competition, but he is not the only Portuguese who is attracting attention. After ringing for many summer weeks to go out, Bernardo Silva has recovered his best level and is once again a shining star in Pep Guardiola’s City.

His last good individual performances, added to a great collective performance, have led to Jack Wilshere, ex Arsenal and now without a team, to place Bernardo above Cristiano Ronaldo.

“Cristiano the best Portuguese? Right now the best is Bernardo Silva. I see him above all the others,” said the English midfielder. This qualified in Talksport that he was referring only to the current moment. “I’m not saying that he is better than Cristiano after everything he has done in his career, but if the game were tomorrow, I would choose Bernardo Silva for my team.”

Wilshere, waiting for a chance

Jack Wilshere is unemployed after terminating his contract with Bournemouth. With the cherries, the 29-year-old midfielder tried to seek promotion to the Premier, but the victory went to Brentford.

After participating in the first leg of that tie, Wilshere was left without a contract and looks for a new opportunity while training with Arsenal, a club where he spent much of his youth after arriving from the Luton Town quarry. From England they assure that Wrexam, a Welsh team owned by Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds, would be willing to give him a new opportunity.