15 Worst Ever Man Utd Premier League Signings

2. Bebé

According to Sir Alex Ferguson, during his 27 year reign at Old Trafford there was only one player he signed who he had never actually seen play. Step forward, Tiago Manuel Dias Correia€ or you may know him better as Bebé. Having played for some local amateur teams, Portuguese Second Division Amadora and also featured in the 2009 European Street Football Festival, it€™s safe to say that there wasn€™t exactly a line of European football€™s elite clubs after Beb這s signature. After a whopping 4 goals in 26 games for Amadora during the 2009/10 season, he was initially offered to clubs for £125,000. When no prospective buyers came calling, he was then offered to PSV Eindhoven for free. Lucky for the Dutch club, they did what Alex Ferguson can only wish he€™d have done €“ they politely declined signing the player because they€™d never heard of him and never seen him play. Bebé would sign for Vitória de Guimarães on a free transfer in 2010, with an initial release clause of ‚3 million put into his contract. After a good pre-season, the release clause was upped to ‚9 million. Following a tip off from Carlos Queiroz, and amidst supposed interest from Real Madrid (yeah, right), Ferguson splashed out £7.4 million to land Bebé in August 2010, just a matter of weeks after he€™d moved to Vitória. The fact that Bebé himself thought that the transfer was a joke suggests he wasn€™t quite up to the standard of a Manchester United player. And to highlight his relationship with Fergie, the forward admitted that the legendary Old Trafford gaffer didn€™t recognise him for weeks after he€™d had his hair cut at Ferguson€™s suggestion. Bebé would grab himself 2 goals in 7 appearances for Utd, although he would spend most of his tenure at the club out on loan before he finally left on a permanent transfer to Benfica in 2014, where the 24-year-old has again struggled.
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