Manchester City midfielder Bernardo Silva has an appalling fashion sense according to one of his former team-mates who has ribbed the star for his “grandad clothes”

Manchester City playmaker Bernardo Silva gets ribbed over his “grandad” clothes, a former teammate has revealed.

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Brazilian Jemerson, who was with the midfielder at Monaco, said Silva’s dress sense was the talk of the dressing room. The Portuguese international’s current teammate Ilkay Gundogan has previously admitted: “Bernardo always gets bullied by the team because most of the players say he dresses like a 40 or 50 year-old man, like a grandfather even sometimes.”

But he went on to praise his friend as someone “everyone likes” in a tongue-in-cheek analysis of the Premier League’s top players on ESPN called ‘Fashion Master or Disaster.””

Jemerson, currently a centre-back at French top-flight side Metz, has now confirmed Silva has always had a reputation as a bad dresser among other footballers.

He described him as a “very cool” guy in an interview but added: “People made fun of him a lot, they said he liked to wear old men’s clothes. He would always appear with shirts on that had gone out of fashion. People used to rib him a lot.”

The 29-year-old Man City midfielder set alarm bells ringing earlier this month by revealing he could try to quit the club next year as he targets an emotional return to boyhood club Benfica.

He told Portuguese subscription TV channel Canal 11: “I miss Portugal a lot. If I could go back in a year or two, I would. Not only because I would like to play for Benfica again, but because I miss my family and living in Portugal very much.”

In August 2014, Silva moved from Benfica to Monaco before joining Man City three years later for a rumored £43.5 million cost. His contract with The Citizens runs out in June 2026.

Even though Jemerson made fun of the master of the midfield’s attire, he was quite complimentary of his skills on the football field.

“In training, it was very difficult to mark him. He would dribble and when you thought you were going to win the ball, he would find a way to keep it, because he finished very well or passed,” he said.

“Also, he is very good tactically. He has an incredible vision of the game, is very skilled and gives his all for the team.”