Which shirt number will Joshua Zirkzee wear at Manchester United?

Not sure about you, but when we at FFT were kids on lazy summer holidays away from school, we used to sit and sketch out what we thought our teams’ squad numbers ought to be for the new season ahead.

That was in the days when numbers 1 to 11 were more highly prized and players used to get upgraded as a rite of passage, of course, whereas nowadays more and more players are devoted to the numbers they get given early in their careers: Phil Foden’s 47 for Manchester City, Trent Alexander-Arnold’s 66 for Liverpool, and so on.

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