The likes of Gary Neville and Roy Keane have slammed Fernandes over his approach to the club captaincy.
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But the midfielder told BBC Sport: "Nothing. People have an opinion about me and I can't change that. It's the way people want to judge you about what they see on the pitch, some of them what they see on television, some of them what they see on interviews.
"I can't change that. They have the freedom to think the way they want about me, as I have the same freedom to think about them. But what I don't do is I don't judge people until I know them.
"They can have an opinion about me and that's fine. We all have different opinions, that's why life is so good and so different. Because if we all think the same way it will be so boring."