If you think we sold James to give Ronaldo the number 7 shirt then I don't even know what to say.
Erm.. The Number 7 shirt..
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If you think we sold James to give Ronaldo the number 7 shirt then I don't even know what to say.
Penny for Sancho's thoughts.
Nah, we sold James as we have Rashford, Martial, James, Lingard, Greenwood, Sancho, Elanga, Mejbri, Amad and Pogba who can played on the wing. We didn't find a buyer who'd pay our valuation for Lingard, Amad got injured before his loan and we received concrete interest in James and an offer we couldn't refuse. Plus all the wages to factor in for all those who can be chosen for only two positions.
But sure, a shirt number was the big deciding factor in selling a player.
I've just read somewhere that once a player has started the PL season with a certain number he must keep it unless he is sold. PL rules apparently. That means Cavani can't give up #7 anymore. Not sure if true.
Selling james covers ronaldo transfer and bring our net spend back under £100mil which the club briefed would be the max spend this summer before the window opened.
Not sure if this has been posted before.
Thanks for that. No doubt Utd will ask and i would be suprised if PL didnt agree seeing how much more interest Ronaldo will bring to PL.
I don’t understand the purpose of the rule, they’ll probably readily agree to swap the numbers. What does it even matter if they change it.
Not enough if people are still saying we sold James to free up the 21
Presumably it’s for the benefit of fans who pay a lot of money for a player’s shirt with name and number.
If United get special dispensation in this case I imagine it will come with the requirement to offer a replacement shirt for anyone who now had a defunct name/number combination.
It was said that discussion of the shirt number was part of the negotiations with Mendes, which is natural when it comes to Cristiano Ronaldo. If there is any player that owns the number 7 around the whole world, it's Ronnie.Not enough if people are still saying we sold James to free up the 21
Terminate Cavani's contract and re-sign him after we submit the form for Ronaldo 7 if we have to.
We can't promise Mendes / CR7 anything more than "we'll try" though.
Which I assume the club with happily do.
Rubbish - he's not even the most iconic number 7 for United, nevermind the "owner" of the number worldwide
Is that how the rule is interpreted?
Cavani #21. Ronaldo #7
Storm the stadium if he doesn't get 7. We decide what number you wear.
To be fair, James been linked to moved away to Brighton and Leeds for months, James was probably considering to leave before the season even started but we are all know Ole wanted him to stay for squad depth.
True or not, it does us some favour at the end because we need to sell and we get to see players wearing their preference shirt number probably. I wish we can be more ruthless to some other deadwoods and players who are not being used so we can sell them and open space to buy players that can improve us or be used more.
Yar probably.
On the other hand, if I have this season's Cavani #7 shirt, I would treat it as a collector's item!
Cavani #21. Ronaldo #7
That makes sense. Since James left, Cavani is allowed to change it by taking the no 21 which free the #7 for Ronaldo.
Ground for some brown envelopes to them whenever a team needs to do it, I guess.
Obviously we can end Cavani’s contract and sign him again before the the window ends then. I doubt that the PL will make us go through that process which means more paperwork for them.
Wait, we sold James? Brilliant, not that I care about the shirt #s.
Err... we would have to pay up his entire contract first?
You need to understand CR7 is by far biggest ever sports brand in the world with over 335m followers in social media. It’s beyond iconic.
The number 7 is pretty much synonymous with Ronaldo nowadays.
His brand is massive. He has the most followers on Instagram last I checked. That is gigantic.
Where did you read it then?
21 now free, would be a bit like RVP wearing 20 to win our 20th league title. I still like the idea of 77 and think he will have the 7 in the end but I wouldn't hate 21 either.
Ronaldo is getting number 7.
Normally, but if the agreement is mutually amicable it shouldn't be a problem. Other than some hassle Cavani would have nothing to lose (oh, his shirt number). Lawyers could just write up things even without him atttending .
For all these years we couldnt repleace Ronaldo with new No.7, so we bought him back
cavani did well in the 7 shirt
Ronaldo will be the best no.7 since Ronaldo.
There's a tweet a few posts back. Seen several journo's post similar on Twitter.
Lord the double standard on here is ridiculous, I remember Varane asking for no.4 but Jones refused, we had some on here who said "it was just a fecking shirt number" Now it's clear to see it was because Jones is English, If i were Cavani I'll refuse solly because Phil Fecking Injured Jones Refused to Give Varane that number 4 shirt, that he's been wearing for over a decade without nothing to show for but killing Steve Bruce's legacy.