Which striker wears the potters no.33 shirt

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A strange change came for Arsenal in Ian Wright left the summer after the club won the domestic double, freeing up 8. It was eventually taken by Fredrik Ljungberg, but he arrived too late to be registered for the Champions League. Instead, in Europe the shirt was assigned to Michael Black, who wore 28 in the league.

In that campaign, 20 was worn in Europe by Stephen Hughes — he had had 16 in and in the UEFA Cup in while still 28 in the league but then seemed set to depart and so 16 was given to Silvinho. When Hughes returned from a loan spell with Fulham, he was re-assigned as 23 domestically. Also in , Manchester United took part in the first staging of the Club World Championship, where squads were limited to 23 players and numbered consecutively.

Real Madrid also took part in that inagural event. Goalkeeper Bodo Illgner had fallen out of favour so Albani Bizzarri swapped 13 for 1 with Iker Casillas dropping from 27 to 13 and third-choice Oliver changing from 28 to The Club World Championship was the last to limit shirt numbers. In practice, the biggest shake-up was for Liverpool goalkeper Pepe Reina, who usually wore 25, but now donned Another player forced to come down was number 24, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, who wore 11, while Scott Carson, 20 at home, switched to The part about no number being used by more than one player is what is stymieing Mkhitaryan, but it is the second clause which worked against Lionel Messi in the season.

He joined Real Madrid from Portsmouth in the winter transfer window. That same window saw Pascal Chimbonda return to Tottenham Hotspur after a short spell with Sunderland.

Other Tottenham players to have had to go with dual numbers are Lewis Holtby in 23 in the league, 14 in Europe and Erik Lamela and Vlad Chiriches in That pair were both signed before the end of the summer transfer window.

Lamela had 33 as he sat on the bench for the game against Arsenal but, as Gareth Bale was sold to Real Madrid days later, he was able to switch to 11 — only domestically of course, keeping 33 in Europe. Scott Parker had been switched from 8 to 6 during the summer but was then sold to Fulham and, as he was part of the provisional European squad, it meant that Chiriches took 12 for the Europa League while wearing 6 at home.

When the Reds were eliminated from the Europa League by Portuguese side Braga, he was attired in the number Denis is a freelance journalist and founded the original Squad Numbers blog. Jasper Cillessen changed his number 22 to 1 halfway through season 23 Dec but stil donned the 22 in the UEL. But you did a great job anyway! Thank you! You mention earlier in the article that Quinton Fortune, normally wore no.

Curiously, Fortune is wearing no. As far as my research goes, 14 had been left vacant after the departure of Jordi Cruyff at the end of the previous season, and was not reissued until the late season signing of Andy Goram at the end of the season due to an injury crisis at United.

Wes Brown 14 and Silvestre Three cases of goalkeepers wearing different numbers in Europe comes to mind. I hope I remember correctly. Fabien Barthez wore 16 in the league for Marseille, but 28 in Europe, in the spring of after joining on loan from Manchester United. Could be that he got a first team contract during the season. Mounir El Hamdaoui wore two different squad numbers for two loan spells at Derby County from Tottenham Hotspur in season.

He joined in September but after only a handful of appearances had to return to Spurs for treatment which cut the loan short but returned for another injury threatened spell in January. First loan spell wore number 26 then got given 9 later in the campaign when fellow loan striker Stern John had returned to Birmingham.