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johnsonsbaby said:
10 ready waiting for Mac Allister.
Ugarte plays 15 (Ox).
Caicedo plays 25 (vacant).
That's our new signings sorted. :)

(Inacio also plays 25.)
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I'm pretty sure some of these lads would want to be thinking big, taking the same old squaddie number you got handed as a child coming to europe isn't a great look.

we should all have realised diaz was **** the second he wanted emre can's number. (who wanted some **** cb's number)

Macallister should want to grab no 10 for club and country now. how what he is made of.
 
johnsonsbaby said:
Strangely, they do care. Rituals are very important to lots of sportsmen and women.
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of course they do.

If jame milner was asked to give up no 7 shirt last summer he might well have left rather than done it. No skin of his nose to go elsewhere.

He's going to get a signing on fee off Brighton his summer now and a wage as his retirement package.

If you asked keita to give up 8 he'd have had kittens and been on treatment table even longer (if thats even possible)

If you had asked mane to give up 10 for salah there would have been war. firmino moved to no 9 and salah took 11. this was probably even a bit of a thorny issue for LFC and giving 9 to the lad solved it.

I'm fairly sure its all ego on one level or another. pecking order etc.
 
oh and as an aside.

Clyne actually held the no 2 shirt and was out for "reasons" and we bought fabinho who always wears 2 and he had to take 3 cos we wouldn't ask the coke head sorry knee injury suffering player to give up 2.

If a footballer isn't ego enough to ask and then not ego enough to insist then he's probably got what it takes to play for us.
 
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moreinjuredthanowen said:
of course they do.

If jame milner was asked to give up no 7 shirt last summer he might well have left rather than done it. No skin of his nose to go elsewhere.

He's going to get a signing on fee off Brighton his summer now and a wage as his retirement package.

If you asked keita to give up 8 he'd have had kittens and been on treatment table even longer (if thats even possible)

If you had asked mane to give up 10 for salah there would have been war. firmino moved to no 9 and salah took 11. this was probably even a bit of a thorny issue for LFC and giving 9 to the lad solved it.

I'm fairly sure its all ego on one level or another. pecking order etc.
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Don't forget the tattoos. For some their shirt number is literally a part of their body.
 
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johnsonsbaby said:
I'm not saying that insisting on a particular shirt number is either right or wrong. It just is a thing. Most players are happy to have any number but some aren't.
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I agree.
For some people those sort of rituals are important. It's just that I'm not superstitious, so from my point of view it's not important.
I can see how players might like to become associated with a particular number, and in that case something like Trent's 66 is a good one as traditional 1-11 numbers are 10 a penny.
 
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saintKlopp said:
I agree.
For some people those sort of rituals are important. It's just that I'm not superstitious, so from my point of view it's not important.
I can see how players might like to become associated with a particular number, and in that case something like Trent's 66 is a good one as traditional 1-11 numbers are 10 a penny.
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Do you know what the meaning behind the 66 is?
 
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