Worst Shirt Numbers

[xonyo]

Could be in the wrong position, a player choosing something abstract or just a player that looks wrong with that number. What are some of the worst?

I'll start with William Gallas in the number 10 at centre back. Just terrible.

 

[hellhunter]

Sandro Wagner playing striker for Bayern with the no 2 shirt.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

Forlan

 

[Flying_Heckfish]

This always made me laugh

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

 

[SplitzMagic]

Ronaldo 99 at AC Milan is definitely one and Ronaldinho 80 I think also at AC

 

[Flying_Heckfish]

This is like when you select your team for the first league cup match on FM

 

[Big Ben Foster]

Any number above the 20s just doesn't look right. It gets worse the higher you go.

Italian and Eastern European clubs are notorious with this.

 

[cj_sparky]

Always find it odd seeing Rui Patricio wear the No.11 in goal for Wolves. Reading online it was as Wolves' No.1 Carl Ikeme was forced to retire due to leukaemia and he didn't take the No.1 to honour him.

Still weird seeing 11 on a keeper.

 

[Invictus]

Steve Sidwell: ‘Mourinho told me I’d wear No 9 – I wasn’t sure if he was joking’.

Odd choice for a midfielder. 1 goal in about a couple dozen appearances, and joined Aston Villa after just a year at Stamford Bridge.

Another #5 (Luís Figo had 10, Raúl González had 7 and Santiago Solari had 21)!

 

[Minkaro]

Edgar Davids giving himself the No. 1 shirt at Barnet is a fun one.

Didn’t Kone wear 2 or 3? The Wigan striker, I mean.

 

[FujiVice]

What a prick.

 

[CallyRed]

Didn't Chelsea also give Khalid Boulahrouz the number 9 shirt

 

[limerickcitykid]

Any number above the 20s just doesn't look right. It gets worse the higher you go.

Italian and Eastern European clubs are notorious with this.

Only above 20? Amateurs. Try over 300 bud

 

[limerickcitykid]

What a prick.

69 hehe

 

[12OunceEpilogue]

Clint Dempsey with no. 2. Bit of a sickener.

 

[Lennon7]

I was #5 on the left wing for youth teams growing up. It’s why I was never actually scouted. The only reason.

 

[Revan]

Callejon and Fabian are total losers.

 

[Dante]

4, 7, 8, 3, 2. And don't even get me started on 6.

 

[Revan]

I don't like 11. If I played in attack, I would have prefered any of 7, 9 and 10 ahead of 11. 11 is stupid.

 

[paraguayo]

Can anyone make a worst sponsors thread? i have some

 

[Acole9]

Used to annoy me a bit when Ihenacho had a stupid number at City but normally don't get that fussed about squad numbers.

 

[horsechoker]

What a prick.

My man

 

[TheMagicFoolBus]

Can anyone make a worst sponsors thread? i have some

Feel as if both our clubs can commiserate here - not sure which is worse between the gigantic Chevrolet logo and our new furry mustache 3.

Yours is odious because the logo is coloured and it is almost comically massive; ours is a crime against all sensibility because it's absurd to have two different numbers on either side of the shirt and it looks as if an 8 year old created it with clipart in Microsoft Paint.

Total tossup IMO.

 

[TheMagicFoolBus]

Didn't Chelsea also give Khalid Boulahrouz the number 9 shirt

Indeed we did. What a clusterfeck. Still not as bad as Gallas insisting on wearing number 10 for Arsenal, mind. That one is the most egregious for me.

 

[M Bison]

Indeed we did. What a clusterfeck. Still not as bad as Gallas insisting on wearing number 10 for Arsenal, mind. That one is the most egregious for me.

Yeah daft, didn’t realise he insisted on the no 10, why though? Aside from being an oddball!!

 

[Red00012]

Any outfield player wearing 13.

 

[R.N7]

A right back wearing #3. The real reason why City should have been banned from Champions League football.

 

[paulscholes18]

Gallas wearing 10 for Arsenal

 

[Irrational.]

Asamoah Gyan with #3 playing up front was always an odd one.

Also:

 

[rcoobc]

4 is a bit of a duff one.

3 is slightly better

 

[TheMagicFoolBus]

Yeah daft, didn’t realise he insisted on the no 10, why though? Aside from being an oddball!!

He was a proper dickhead with an inferiority complex - he simultaneously resented that Chelsea preferred to get Ashley Cole instead of him at left back whilst also always complaining that he didn't get a look in at CB (when Terry and Carvalho were very obviously the better players). Once he moved to Arsenal he insisted on getting the 10 to make himself feel appreciated.

Very talented player but completely held back by his own idiocy.

 

[Paxi]

 

[SirAF]

Any number above the 20s just doesn't look right. It gets worse the higher you go.

Italian and Eastern European clubs are notorious with this.

This.

 

[GhastlyHun]

What a prick.

Wait, this is obviously the very best number.

Any number above the 20s just doesn't look right. It gets worse the higher you go.

Italian and Eastern European clubs are notorious with this.

Schweinsteiger, Müller, Kimmich, Lahm... We have a strong tradition with those large numbers.

 

[TheMagicFoolBus]

Wait, this is obviously the very best number.

It's certainly the nicest!

 

[Red Stone]

What a prick.

Nice.

 

[Gopher Brown]

Lizarazu picked 69 because he was born in 69 and was 1.69m tall apparently.

It’s my favourite bingo call though - “Dinner for two. 69.”

 

[dcrompton]

High squad numbers should be reserved for youth team players who can move to lower numbers as reward for becoming first team like Greenwood and Rashford, Beckham etc before him. First team players doing it annoys me like Tevez 32 and Matic 31. Hope united never retire a number, that pisses me off more

 

[horsechoker]

Hope united never retire a number, that pisses me off more

If a special player died while playing for United I wouldn't be opposed to retiring a shirt number.