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Let's be honest, as good as Christmas is, it's only ever a preamble to the real excitement of the @squadnos new signings thread each January To start, Brazilian winger Alysson has joined Aston Villa from Grêmio and will wear the number 47

@SyzeMatters Yeah, most of those mentioned in the linked article

@squadnos If I remember correctly, Kewell went from 19 to 10, Woodgate from 26 to 6, Smith from 39 to 17, Hopkin from 12 to 7, McPhail from 37 to 14, Jones from 40 to 20.

Today's date represents the number change made by Ian Harte of Leeds United in 1999 - both Leeds and Tottenham Hotspur undertook major tidy-ups that summer museumofjerseys.com/2023/08/29/mat…

@clarkey85steve It's civilised living. Southampton in 2020 the last PL club to do a proper tidy-up as Chelsea in 2022 was more of a shuffle without signifying status museumofjerseys.com/2025/12/30/sea…

@squadnos I don’t know why but I always find it exciting when teams tidy up their squad numbers and starting players with high squad numbers are given one of the coveted 1-11 jerseys.

Newcastle United's Lewis Hall made the same move last summer

@museumofjerseys @theranger1872 @brazilegend10 @ScotlandNT @scottishkits2 @BeerhuntersTA @squadnos Brilliant work as always. However this gem of Portugal 🇵🇹 Euro 84 really hurt my eyes and senses. While I despise squad numbers 50-99, maybe with exception of 77, seeing defenders wear 7-11 is jarring. Thinking Gallas 10 & Boulahrouz 9 is worse!

@museumofjerseys @irishwill83 @theranger1872 @ScotlandNT @scottishkits2 @BeerhuntersTA @squadnos all in my new book

Nottingham Forest progress in the Europa League, 30 years to the day after the Uefa Cup QF loss to Bayern Munich That season was the last where 1-11 was used in Europe and there were a few quirks to Forest's numbering museumofjerseys.com/2026/02/19/the…

@irishwill83 @theranger1872 @brazilegend10 @ScotlandNT @scottishkits2 @BeerhuntersTA @squadnos Order of caps won, goalkeepers excepted. Had also been the case in 1990 but a bit less noticeable museumofjerseys.com/2023/07/09/sco…

@johnnycourtenay Hi Johnny - United didn’t have names on their shirts against Ajax or Forest in that tournament and Beckham wore 8 in both matches m.youtube.com/watch?v=vM5OPS…

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@squadnos What’s interesting is how few of them made the England squad for Euro 96, just 5 I make it? Platt, Ferdinand, Ince, Sheringham and Flowers.

England squad, 1993 US Cup

@squadnos @3Retro_Football 6 of whom either played for, or went on to play for @swfc

@squadnos These felt "wrong" at the time because for me, England at Italia 90 was how to "do" tournament numbers. Accepting the "first XI" is lopsided from having 4 CMs, I'd go Barrett 12, Keown 14, Winterburn 15, Sharpe 16, Clough 17, Sinton 18, Merson 19, Sheringham 20, Wright 21.

@markmitchener Yeah it’s strange how the defenders out side the 1-11 have the highest numbers!

The Barcelona font is just for this game, to tie in with World Down’s Syndrome Day on Saturday, and is designed by Anna Vives, a Catalan artist with Down’s Syndrome