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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/aug/11/manchester-united-sign-striker-bebe

Manchester United sign £7.4m Portuguese striker Bebe

• Portuguese player becomes eight striker on United's books

• 20-year-old recommended to club by Portugal's Queiroz

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guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 11 August 2010 21.48 BST

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Alex Ferguson has added an eighth senior striker to his books by signing the Portuguese Bebe. Photograph: Kamil Krzaczynski/EPA

Manchester United have spent £7.4m to sign Bebe, a relatively unknown 20-year-old from the Portuguese club Vitória de Guimarães, the Guardian can reveal. The deal was finalised today, with the player becoming the eighth senior striker on the club's books.

United have paid the buyout clause to release Bebe – who was raised in an orphanage after spending part of his childhood on the streets and has represented Portugal in the homeless World Cup – from his five-year contract at Guimarães only five weeks after he joined the club from Estrala da Amadora in the Portuguese third division.

He has been recommended to Sir Alex Ferguson by his former assistant, Carlos Queiroz, the Portugal national coach, and a deal has been rushed through for Bebe to become the third signing of the summer at Old Trafford. It takes the club's spending to around £25m following the arrival of Chris Smalling from Fulham and Javier Hernández from Chivas de Guadalajara, with Ferguson retaining a strong interest in Mesut Ozil, the Germany international.

The United manager was at Craven Cottage to see Ozil play in a pre-season friendly for Werder Bremen on Saturday and, although he tried to pass it off as watching a Premier League opponents, the Guardian has established he stayed back at the end of the match to talk to officials of the Bundesliga club in the boardroom. There remain a number of obstacles to clear, not least the fact that Chelsea are interested, along with Real Madrid and, potentially, Barcelona.

The signing of Bebe has been far more straightforward, with Ferguson understood to have met the player for the first time on Tuesday when he flew to Portugal, principally to be a witness for Queiroz in a disciplinary case with the Portuguese football federation.

Bebe is described as a fast, technically gifted striker, right-footed and strong in the air, measuring 6ft 2ins. He has shown his potential with several goals in pre-season but his signing still represents a major surprise given Ferguson's recent insistence that he did not want to add to his squad and the player's low profile in Portuguese football.

Queiroz has convinced Ferguson that he may have unearthed a future gem and Bebe will provide competition for Wayne Rooney, Hernández, Dimitar Berbatov, Michael Owen and Federico Macheda, with Mame Biram Diouf having joined Blackburn Rovers on a season-long loan and Daniel Welbeck on his way to Sunderland.

quiroz still on the payroll at man u

he did scout ronaldo/nani

but he did also bring in manucho

so lets wait nd see on this one

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United have paid the buyout clause to release Bebe – who was raised in an orphanage after spending part of his childhood on the streets and has represented Portugal in the homeless World Cup – from his five-year contract at Guimarães only five weeks after he joined the club from Estrala da Amadora in the Portuguese third division.

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Hope Wellbeck's loan wont be made permanent

Owen wont be missed that much now Hernandez has come in.

Berbatov, for all Fergie's words on him i reckon if we receive a decent offer he'll be off. remember the Veron saga.

Macheda, im not convinced, but i dont think he'll be gone yet.

Diouf's not gotta chance, im sure he wasbought for the same reason Tosic was, to get a profit when we sell him on next season or in Jan.

saying all this though.i wont be suprised if this guy isnt named in the premiership squad.

but £7.4 leaves me wondering, coz surely 7.4 mill is too much tospend on a player to jamm in the reserves, surely

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This guy is like a myth LOL. He must be the real deal for £7 mill in this market like you say Kompressor.

Rooney and Hernandez are dead certs.

Its looking like Owen and Diouf are gone next season.

Maybe Berba too if he doesn't deliver this season.

OR

Berba stays and Macheda goes in not-too-distant future (2/3 seasons)

Welbeck stays. He aint going Sunderland permanently I reckon.

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