Gary Neville has hailed Bruno Fernandes’ character and praised Manchester United's transfer business. The Man Utd captain has snubbed a lucrative move to Al-Hilal in order to remain at Old Trafford, insisting he wants to stay playing at the highest level. A move to Saudi Arabia would reportedly have been worth £700,000 a week tax-free and around £200million in total, in addition to netting United a transfer fee of £100m. To turn down such a deal given the finances involved will only endear himself to the Man United faithful, according to Neville. Speaking on Sky Sports News, he said: “It’s significant. I think that there was an element of this situation that meant United getting that level of money, for someone of Bruno’s age, obviously, you couldn’t say that it would have been a bad deal. “But, on the other hand, Manchester United’s star player – only player at times – for the last four, five, six years, has been Bruno Fernandes. He’s so important. “The fact that he wants to stay, the fact that he wants to go through this and come out the other side, because it would have been easy for him at the end of this season to say, ‘Look, I’m done here’, will endear him towards Manchester United fans even more. “To turn that money down at a point where Manchester United are at their lowest ebb and say, ‘No, I want to fight through this, I want to see it through the other side, I want to come out and achieve things,’ I think it says a lot about him as a person, as a character. “The club needs people who are going to run through a brick wall for them.” Fernandes opting to stay comes hot on the heels of Man Utd announcing a deal to sign Matheus Cunha from Wolves in addition to strong links with Brentford forward Bryan Mbeumo. Neville has delivered his verdict on the Cunha move and the possibility of Mbeumo arriving, saying it’s a step in the right direction. He added: “They need players who are going to come in and hit the ground running and Cunha and Mbeumo have got obviously Premier League experience. “I know that Ruben Amorim has this system where he plays these two players in behind a striker. If those two players are Mbeumo and Cunha then Manchester United will at least be able to travel quickly from deep positions into attacking positions because they can both run. “We know the likes of Sancho, (Marcus) Rashford, Antony, and probably (Alejandro) Garnacho are going to leave, so they need definitely players in those positions.”