Manchester United ace Bruno Fernandes insists manager Erik ten Hag welcomes his on-field passion.

Fernandes has been criticised by pundits for his body language.

But the midfielder says: said: "I'm aware that he's really happy with the way I train, the way I play, the way I show my emotions, the way I show my passion for the game. He knows I care, that's why probably sometimes it makes you do some things that you should not do.

"But he knows that I will never do nothing to make the team look bad, my team-mates look bad, or making something that is not good for the team. He knows that, so that's why it protects me. That's why he did that in that interview and many other times.

"Whenever he thinks that he has to say something that he didn't like to me, he has called me two or three times in his office and he said 'look, we have to change this, we have to change this, I think you could do it in a different way'. We had many conversations this season. He always called the players to talk with them, he has a lot of individual meetings with the players.

"I think that's good because he shows you the respect, he shows you the protection. But always with the demands behind that because obviously when you protect someone you want him to give you some back, so he can have his reasons to protect you."