Ideally Ronnie gets the 7 and Cavani the 9.
Another scenario that would be good is if Sancho gets the 7 and Ronaldo the 9.
Another scenario that would be good is if Sancho gets the 7 and Ronaldo the 9.
Erm.. The Number 7 shirt..
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I'm sure Cavani will be a good sport about it and give him the 7 shirt.
Oh yes21, the RVP approach
Sky reckon the rules say you can't swap a number once the season started unless you apply for "special dispensation" or the holder of the shirt leaves.
Unless "Ronnie likes 7" applies I suppose!
Unless "Ronnie likes 7" applies I suppose!
He will get the no.7.
Not read through the whole post but, elsewhere on social media something about Cavani would have to leave or United would have to get special dispensation from the League to switch numbers at this point. Feel free to berate me if this has already been debunked.
Rio seems to have let slip. "What a man Cavani, giving up the number 7........maybe" went on to say he wasn't sure how registration was though, but his body language says he definatley slipped up.
The perfect player for Sancho to learn from and eventually inherit the shirt.
The Premier League likes money. Having the most commercially successful player join and then screwing with the branding would be pretty weird from them.
Even if Cavani doesn't mind, he either has to leave the club or the FA has to allow it, which has not happened before.
is it the dusty fecks at the FA or the Premier League who decide?
if its the FA we have no chance, if its the PL, I think they may make an exception due to the commercial realities
I double-checked and it is the PL. Maybe they would allow it
Will be 77 I reckon.
Ronaldo 7
Cavani 24
My prediction
Cavani 24
My prediction
Ronaldo has to get the number 7. Him having any other number would be like Mona Lisa having eyebrows.
Michael Jordan went with 45 on his comeback, and at the time I thought MJ would only wear 23, so CR7 might change for a season. Wouldn’t be unprecedented
It's for this reason that the Premier League will totally be fine with the change. There are loopholes and it would be stupid of the PL to deny a simple change to avoid things getting silly, it would only make a mockery of the PL, not anyone else. Still, I don't really care what number players play with.
Giving he him a new number will mean more shirt sales. All you peeps who kept your old shirts will buy new ones.
"CR77" works.
"CR77" works.
Ronalso 7, Cavani 9, Martial......Just go!
Cavani wears 21 for Uruguay. Ideal scenario is we feck Dan James off, give Cavani his number (21 is coming ) and give Ronaldo the 7.
) and give Ronaldo the 7.He’ll get 15 or something boring I reckon.
It’ll be number 7.
I'm guessing it's already a done deal with Ronaldo getting the number 7. The way Rio announced it with such confidence, before realising his balls up that he'd announced some top secret information and did everything he could to act like he was just blindly guessing tells me he's getting it.
Can he wear 1+6 like Zamorano wore 1+8?
I’ve already got a Cavani #7 shirt. 
I have historic bad luck with my shirts. I got an Ince shirt in March ‘95 and we sold him to Inter three months later.
I got an Anderson shirt in ‘09 after we won the CL. He was terrible the following season, had disciplinary problems, and ended up doing his ACL and missed half of it.
I got a Martial shirt at the start of last season, because he was good the year before. And he turned to absolute garbage.
This year I got Cavani, who’s going off to play international fixtures and will miss a lot of games, and now looks like he might lose his shirt number anyway.
Who should I curse next?
I have historic bad luck with my shirts. I got an Ince shirt in March ‘95 and we sold him to Inter three months later.
I got an Anderson shirt in ‘09 after we won the CL. He was terrible the following season, had disciplinary problems, and ended up doing his ACL and missed half of it.
I got a Martial shirt at the start of last season, because he was good the year before. And he turned to absolute garbage.
This year I got Cavani, who’s going off to play international fixtures and will miss a lot of games, and now looks like he might lose his shirt number anyway.
Who should I curse next?
I’ve already got a Cavani #7 shirt.
I have historic bad luck with my shirts. I got an Ince shirt in March ‘95 and we sold him to Inter three months later.
I got an Anderson shirt in ‘09 after we won the CL. He was terrible the following season, had disciplinary problems, and ended up doing his ACL and missed half of it.
I got a Martial shirt at the start of last season, because he was good the year before. And he turned to absolute garbage.
This year I got Cavani, who’s going off to play international fixtures and will miss a lot of games, and now looks like he might lose his shirt number anyway.
Who should I curse next?
I got Martial 11 a couple of years ago before ho moved to 9 just before the window shut…I was pissed.
That's why I always buy shirts without numbers.
Not sure what the Premier League think, but if you look at our squad page on the Premier League site it is suggesting something..
https://www.premierleague.com/clubs/12/Manchester-United/squad
https://www.premierleague.com/clubs/12/Manchester-United/squad
On the Rio Five video where he’s talking about his part in Ronaldo returning, he lets slip when he says “Cavani, what a guy btw, he knew and gave up the 7” then goes on to say “maybe!!” when he realises he messed up.
I think this will be a special case and the league will allow it.
I think this will be a special case and the league will allow it.
007
I think if Cavani can be offered 9 he'll give up 7
Haha this is what happened when he moved to Real with the old Ronaldo 9 shirts (as he only got the 7 once Raul retired)
His number for Uruguay is 21 surely he would take that if offered, Dan James should be looking for a new club anyway he isn't getting a sniff this season.
When Ronaldo first joined us he wanted the no28 shirt but fergie was adamant on giving him the 7… we have no28 available so he might want to go with that one.
Cavani has offered him the no 7
United can submit a different set of squad numbers for the Champions League, and they have not been handed in yet, so he could wear the number 7 shirt in European competitions this season.