Profile Tiago Manuel Dias Correia

Personal information :

Full name : Tiago Manuel Dias Correia
Date of birth : 12 July 1990
Place of birth : Agualva-Cacém, Portugal
Height : 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Playing position : Winger , Forward
Current club : Manchester United
Number : 33
Youth career :
2001–2008 Grupo Sportivo de Loures
Senior career :
2009–2010 Estrela da Amadora
2010 Vitória de Guimarães
2010– Manchester United
National team :
2010– Portugal U21

Club career

Early career

Bébé was signed via Portuguese Second Division side Estrela da Amadora within the summer of 2009 having previously performed for amateur side Loures. His former official, Gonçalo Reis, revealed that Bébé was offered towards PSV Eindhoven for free within May 2010. However, PSV refused the bid as they did not know him. He was otherwise signed via Vitória de Guimarães within the summer of 2010 onto a free shift as soon as Estrela failed towards remunerate his wages. He signed a five-year contract with a €9 million release clause. However, he did not play an official match for the club.

Manchester United

On 11 August 2010, alone five weeks as soon as he signed for Vitória de Guimarães, Manchester United conceded an undisclosed fee with the Portuguese club for the shift of Bébé. The fee was reported towards be round £7.4 million, suspected towards be the importance of the buy-out clause within the forward's contract. Though reports within Portugal afterwards alleged the fee was €9 million, which the official corporate Gestifute obtained €3.5 million (included official fee) and the club alone obtained €5.5million (about 60%), as third-party ownership is licenced within Portugal. It was also reported that Real Madrid and Benfica were interested within him. Bébé was advised towards Manchester United executive Alex Ferguson via former Portugal national team instructor Carlos Queiroz, Ferguson's former assistant. Ferguson alone met him the day ahead of the transfer. On 12 August, David Gill reported that Bébé shall not be posted out onto credit and that he shall collaborate up with the first-team squad towards prove himself and towards hear English. The shift was finalised onto 16 August, consecutive Bébé's medical and the entry of the convenient paperwork, and he was unveiled towards the media at a press congress the consecutive day, along with fellow novel signings Javier Hernández and Chris Smalling.

On six September, he was informed as portion of the 25-man squad for Manchester United towards play within the Champions League. On 22 September, Bébé made his debut for Manchester United as he replaced Park Ji-Sung within the 74th minute of a 5–2 away victory again Scunthorpe within the League Cup. On two October, he made his Premier League debut, replacing Anderson within the 80th minute within their 0–0 draw against Sunderland. His former activate arrived against Wolves within the Fourth Round of the League Cup onto 26 October whereas he scored his former goal within the procedure, scoring United's former of a 3–2 house win. His former Champions League goal arrived onto his debut within the competition, scoring the final goal of a 3–0 away victory again Bursaspor onto two November. On Saturday 19th February, Bebe performed the full 90 minutes against non league Crawley Town.

International career

Bébé was a Portugal under-19 international. In August 2010, Bébé was branded up towards the under-21 squad for the former moment for their 2011 European under-21 qualifiers against England and Macedonia within morning September. He made his debut for the under-21s, performing as a lone striker within their 1–0 loss towards England onto 4 September. He otherwise scored his former goal for the under-21 side three days afterwards within their final qualifying toy against Macedonia, scoring the former within a 3–1 win.