Premier League - Bebe can't make reserve team

Eurosport - Wed, 25 Aug 12:32:00 2010

Sir Alex Ferguson's new £7m signing Bebe has made so little an impact in training at Manchester United he was not even considered for a reserve team match.

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Having failed to impress at the club's Carrington base, the new £7 million summer signing was omitted from the reserves' line-up against neighbours Manchester City on Tuesday.

The 20-year-old, whose signing for United was hailed as a fairytale two weeks ago, was a virtual unknown before Ferguson took a punt on him.

Ferguson later admitted he had not even seen Bebe play - nor watched a video of him - but was still willing to take a chance on him after the recommendations of United scouts and his former assistant at Old Trafford Carlos Queiroz.

A deal was pushed through quickly with clubs such as Real Madrid and Benfica also circling with intent, and Ferguson later claimed that "sometimes you just have to go with instinct".

But it appears the Portuguese forward is taking longer to settle in Manchester than expected, with his touch and control reportedly way off the standards United demand, leading reserve team boss Ole Gunnar Solksjaer to overlook him for the match in Hyde.

Bebe's rise to prominence has been nothing short of spectacular. An undistinguished spell at Portuguese third tier club Estrala da Amadora was followed by a free transfer to Guimaraes before United picked him up for £7.4m.

While Bebe was absent from Solksjaer's squad of 16, the match saw the return of midfielder Anderson, who has not played since damaging his cruciate ligament six months ago.

Gary Neville, Wes Brown and Michael Carrick also featured in the 3-1 win Ewen Fields hitting one Federico Macheda grabbing a brace.

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  1. haha nice one fergie !

    From Chigz10, on Tue 7 Sep 11:41

  2. MANU haters will have their say as usual. The boy will­ improve. It is just a matter of time. See what we did­ with Ronaldo.

    Cyril

    From Cyril, on Sat 28 Aug 6:21

  3. haha berbaflop-30 million punds. fergie sucks. bebe­ come to chelsea u will be appreciated and not involve­ with fergie's unreasonable rant at u.

    From hiddink, on Fri 27 Aug 19:32

  4. What a waste of money for Babe and Berbatov

    From Augustine, on Fri 27 Aug 9:16

  5. The Man Utd haters on here are missing the point of how­ much any club has spent in the past 10 years. Yes,­ United have broken the transfer record a couple of­ times but surely thats not the point is it? The point­ is the total amount of money spent on players. I do not­ know the exact values but i know Chelsea and City have­ probably spent more. Chelsea at least have won cups in­ the past 7 years but city have paid for players like­ robinho, Jo, Kolo Toure, Lescott and have paid over the­ odds for them.I am sorry but you can not tell me­ robinho and Jo have played their worth at City. United­ on the other hand bought players like nani, berba,­ anderson and older players than that but the key thing­ here is that we have won trophies so we could at least­ justify our spending as we were probably spending less­ money than we made. Most of the debt emanates from the­ Glaziers takeover and i think you will find that every­ company borrows money for one reason or the other so­ every company technically has debt.

    From Jackson, on Fri 27 Aug 8:14

  6. Jameswaddington: You clearly don't know your­ backside from your elbow. United were not even the­ first football club to become a PLC (Spurs were) and­ there were no FA rules against it.

    Tha majority of­ the club's wealth has come from the huge gates we­ have enjoyed at Old Trafford since the 1960s combined­ with a good transfer policy. United's net spend in­ the 24 years of the Ferguson era is under £160m - far­ less than City & Chelsea and less than even­ Liverpool and Spurs during that time. In his first ten­ years his net spend on transfers was just £5m - yet we­ apparently "bought" our success. Yeah, we­ paid record fees for Keane and Cole of almost £11m­ between them - but we sold £19m worth of players during­ that time as well.

    Also, they had no involvement in­ the Champions League's change to allow runners up­ (and later another two clubs) into the competition.­ Should they have said "No thanks UEFA, we­ didn'f win it, so we will sit it out" and then­ just let any other team you don't have a bee in­ your bonnet about take their place? I think you'll­ find in the 13 years since they changed the rules in­ 1997, United have qualified as Champions on 7­ occasions. Liverpool would have qualified 0 times­ rather than 8, Arsenal 3 rather than 12 and Chelsea 3­ times rather than 8.

    From CATHERINE, on Fri 27 Aug 7:20

  7. 7m is a lot for someone like him, why?? could have used­ it on a bid for ozil!
    smalling and chicarito was good­ signings cuz their good...
    furgie havent even seen him­ play?

    From Abin, on Fri 27 Aug 6:06
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    Bacon face must have been on a bender the day he signed­ Bobo, bibi, baby or what ever he's called. Drunken­ obnoxious g0b$hite.

    From LES, on Fri 27 Aug 5:10
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    hahahahahaaha
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    From Man United are gays, on Fri 27 Aug 4:33

  10. Pamela your an idiot

    From dd, on Fri 27 Aug 4:22

  11. Bebe is not good enough to be a United player.

    From Jazzy Jaxx, on Fri 27 Aug 2:47

  12. dev_fest - Moores only became chairman in 1991, so how­ can he have funded Shankley (1959–1974) or Paisley­ (1974–1983)?

    From thatll be telling, on Fri 27 Aug 0:31

  13. has anyone noticed how i always type things twice? its­ because im such a spazmaloid that i cant remember­ things three seconds later oh my

    From rich uncle malcolm lghu,,, on Fri 27 Aug 0:04

  14. has anyone noticed how i always type things twice? its­ because im such a spazmaloid that i cant remember­ things three seconds later oh my

    From rich uncle malcolm lghu,,, on Fri 27 Aug 0:03

  15. has anyone noticed how i always type things twice? its­ because im such a spazmaloid that i cant remember­ things three seconds later oh my

    From rich uncle malcolm lghu,,, on Fri 27 Aug 0:03

  16. He could be sir Alex's secret weapon so watch out­ the big great Scot might have something up is sleeve i­ dont think man u would buy a out of form player for 7­ million but like united we'l have to wait and see.

    From Pamela, on Fri 27 Aug 0:02

  17. I don't get it sir, why do u need this kind of­ players when you have 100 million euro in your pocket?

    From Eli, on Thu 26 Aug 23:52

  18. bandit your right,and the ttouble with city is that its­ full of moss side jigaboos

    From rich uncle malcolm lghu,,, on Thu 26 Aug 23:49

  19. Loan him out to Div 2 or 3. Let him have some­ experience on field first. Assuming the 7 million had­ already burned! Or lastly, donate him away!

    From ohnooo, on Thu 26 Aug 23:46

  20. Don't fear! The boy will take this in and use it to­ improve. He is a self-made-man and I believe that­ it's not the first time people doubt his abilities.­ And until now, they have been wrong....

    From Mamadou, on Thu 26 Aug 21:38
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