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Born in England, his family moved to Portugal when he was seven, with his mother .
Spent 18 months in the Everton youth team on loan during 2011 and 2012, but returned to Sporting and could not break into the first team on a consistent basis.
Having a buy out clause in his deal from a previous administration at the club, Spurs nipped in, but the board at Sporting claimed they had been hijacked and were upset that the player wanted to leave whatever they offered him. Perhaps you could see why, when he was given an opening day debut at West Ham and not only played a strong game in defence, as Spurs went down to ten men after half an hour, but popped up in added tie at the end of the game to scoring the only goal of the game with a fine finish.