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#14610
Quote from: Declan on August 12, 2010, 09:05:15 AM
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={FE60904B-C2A8-4E60-9B05-700DBBC29BBC}&section=playerProfile&teamid=&bioid=94383

Someone having some fun?

... just been told that they get a profile ready for every player that's rumoured - so there's one for Benzema etc...

nrico2006

I heard Bebe can play as an attacking midfielder too, something that we are in dire need of.
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Quote from: nrico2006 on August 12, 2010, 09:32:48 AM
I heard Bebe can play as an attacking midfielder too, something that we are in dire need of.

He's going to ruin one of your songs now :D

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You find a dead rat and you think it's a treat :D

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Welbeck to Sunderland for the season
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ballinaman

Quote from: A Quinn Martin Production on August 12, 2010, 10:32:00 AM
Welbeck to Sunderland for the season
That just leaves the other 47 strikers at the club...

ross4life

Let's look at the striking options for the Season

Rooney, before last season he struggled to get 20 goals in a season, now expectations will be high that he can repeat his 34 tally from last season, have a feeling injury & suspension will prevent him from doing so, 25 goals would be a good return

Berbatov, has never reached his full potential at united will be 30 in January a real make or break season for him needs to score at least 20 goals

Owen, will be used as a bit part player again hopefully he can stay injury free & score 10+ goals

Hernández, this guy looks made for the PL pace & great eye for a goal reminds me of a young Owen & 15+ goals would be a good first season return for him

Macheda, If the four strikers above stay injury free Federico is unlikely to get much game time at 18 he's one for the future a return of 5 goals would be ok

Bebe, now that he's signed up he might be loaned out? if not he may play in the Carling cup & score a goal or two

All other strikers are out on loan......
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Quote from: AZOffaly on August 12, 2010, 09:46:32 AM
Quote from: nrico2006 on August 12, 2010, 09:32:48 AM
I heard Bebe can play as an attacking midfielder too, something that we are in dire need of.

He's going to ruin one of your songs now :D

You root in the dustbin for something to eat
You find a dead rat and you think it's a treat :D

Why? Did he recently solve the social problems of Murkydive?  ;D

EC Unique

Quote from: ross4life on August 12, 2010, 04:11:43 PM
Let's look at the striking options for the Season


Hernández, this guy looks made for the PL pace & great eye for a goal reminds me of a young Owen & 15+ goals would be a good first season return for him


Scoles recons he is a similar player to Ole!! Lets hope so....

mountainboii

Now that it's confirmed that it's not a joke, I still can't get my head around this Bebe deal. He moves to Guimarães for next to nothing then five weeks later United are paying £7.5m for him. Is it either:

United were tracking him all along, but the place is being run by clowns, who fucked up the opportunity to get him on the cheap and have unnecessarily cost the club about £7m.

or

United have decided to lay out £7.5m on a complete unknown, who's barely played at a level high than semi-professional, on the back of a handful of pre-season friendlies.

Neither explanation makes much sense. Definitely the most bizarre United signing in a long time.

David McKeown

Quote from: AFS on August 12, 2010, 05:18:49 PM
Now that it's confirmed that it's not a joke, I still can't get my head around this Bebe deal. He moves to Guimarães for next to nothing then five weeks later United are paying £7.5m for him. Is it either:

United were tracking him all along, but the place is being run by clowns, who fucked up the opportunity to get him on the cheap and have unnecessarily cost the club about £7m.

or

United have decided to lay out £7.5m on a complete unknown, who's barely played at a level high than semi-professional, on the back of a handful of pre-season friendlies.

Neither explanation makes much sense. Definitely the most bizarre United signing in a long time.

Although he only moved about 5 weeks ago there's been a lot of talk on message boards and in papers that that transfer had been agreed at least behind closed doors if not publicly for quite sometime. So had Utd decided to buy him 6 weeks ago they would have had to spend the same money
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mc_grens

No. He was a free agent 5 weeks ago. His previous club were in trouble and unable to pay his wages so he became a free agent at the start of the summer. He remained that until signing for free for the club united bought him from 5 weeks ago. The rest of the premiership is currently sniggering at you behind their hands

UNLESS, there is a provision in the Bosman legislation disqualifying young players moving over Borders with no fee involved. Wasn't that part of the Obi- Mikel debacle?

mc_grens

#14621
Quote from: Boycey on August 12, 2010, 07:36:15 PM
Quote from: mc_grens on August 12, 2010, 06:45:50 PM
No. He was a free agent 5 weeks ago. His previous club were in trouble and unable to pay his wages so he became a free agent at the start of the summer. He remained that until signing for free for the club united bought him from 5 weeks ago. The rest of the premiership is currently sniggering at you behind their hands

UNLESS, there is a provision in the Bosman legislation disqualifying young players moving over Borders with no fee involved. Wasn't that part of the Obi- Mikel debacle?

I'm glad you have sorted that one out for us, the hardened journalists who work for the daily newspapers are still trying to get to the bottom of it but you having spent one day looking at internet speculation have it all figured out.

That said it is the strangest transfer I can recall and I can't see logic anywhere in the deal at present although I have to say I'll eat my hat if it emerges that United have paid £7.5 upfront for this guy

It's OK. I won't claim the credit. That all came from Gabriel Marcotti of the London Times.


mc_grens

#14622
Funny, thats where I got it from, maybe you should've posted all of that chain of continued tweets from Marcotti instead of trying to make me look like i was lying...

QuoteStill shocked by Bebe transfer... lots of questions... became free agent in spring after Estrela Amadora failed to pay wages... (cont) about 9 hours ago via web

Quote# (cont) supposedly Queiroz recommended him... did they not realize Bebe was any good back in May, when he was on a free?     about 9 hours ago  via web

Quote...(cont) so he signs on a FREE for Vitoria in early July who then "flip" him, by selling him to Utd 5 wks later at a profit of 7.4m? (cont) about 9 hours ago via web

THEN he goes on to say what you quoted as part of the same string of tweets.

mc_grens

#14623
Quote from: mc_grens on August 12, 2010, 09:29:03 PM
Funny, thats where I got it from, maybe you should've posted all of that chain of continued tweets from Marcotti instead of trying to make me look like i was lying...

QuoteStill shocked by Bebe transfer... lots of questions... became free agent in spring after Estrela Amadora failed to pay wages... (cont) about 9 hours ago via web

Quote# (cont) supposedly Queiroz recommended him... did they not realize Bebe was any good back in May, when he was on a free?     about 9 hours ago  via web

Quote...(cont) so he signs on a FREE for Vitoria in early July who then "flip" him, by selling him to Utd 5 wks later at a profit of 7.4m? (cont) about 9 hours ago via web

THEN he goes on to say what you quoted as part of the same string of tweets.

He also posted this...

QuoteNot questioning Bebe as a player (haven't seen him). Just why you would pay so much for a guy who was free five weeks earlier.     about 9 hours ago  via web

...right in the middle of the tweets you quoted, you must have just missed it  ;D

Just in case the link is...

http://twitter.com/Marcotti


Well worth a follow, he writes for the Times, BBC, Corriere dello Sport, Wall Street Journal, Sunday Herald, La Stampa, and Sports Illustrated.

mc_grens

Sorry bout that. Very grumpy today.

I took the ?'s to be him expressing his incredulity at the series of events.

It is probably the strangest transfer I can remember.