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The mystery of United’s ‘ghost transfer’ - a simple computer error?

The Premier League club’s website includes the Portuguese forward Betinho as a player in the Manchester team’s squad.

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The Premier League website alert sent everyone into panic. It appears Manchester United have signed a new player and disbelief has gripped the fans of the Red Devils. A footballer named Betinho, a Portuguese national, has appeared among the members of the United squad. Nothing but the number 11 is shown, belonging to Mason Greenwood. A mysterious signing about which there is still no official clarification from the Manchester club, and everything indicates that it was in fact a computer error.

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"There is already a substitute for Cristiano!" The most astute were quick to point out on social networks. The truth is that Betinho is a real footballer. Of flesh and bone. A 29-year-old player who works as a striker for the modest club SC Espinho, from Portugal, and who visited the Brentford jersey for six months between 2014 and 2015. Betinho, to this day, has not returned to make the leap to the Islands, but has become famous in a matter of hours in the Premier.

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