Which Numbers Will Lucas Digne and Maghnes Akliouche Wear at PSG?
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First expected signings of the summer for PSG, Lucas Digne and Maghnes Akliouche, will have to choose a new jersey number in Paris. Let's take a quick overview of the available choices, with one obvious one and two clear candidates for the other.
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One has already signed and is on vacation; the other is also on vacation but should sign shortly. Digne and Akliouche will be the next two Paris signings of the summer with almost complete certainty; only the date of the official announcement of their respective transfers is pending.
By then, the two players will be able to answer a question that all transferred players on the planet ask themselves: what jersey number will I be able to wear?
Back at PSG almost ten years after his first spell, Lucas Digne will not be able to reclaim the No. 21 he wore then for a simple reason. Since the summer of 2023, it has been taken by Lucas Hernandez, who also wears it for the national team. It is unlikely that his teammate in blue will give it to him, and not certain either that Digne will want to play again with a number that did not really bring him luck.
In Barcelona, Digne then played with No. 19, free since the departure of Lee Kang-in, but that also went only so-so. It is with another number that the 33-year-old left-footer has known the most success during his career. Wearing No. 12 for three and a half seasons at Everton and then again for the last three at Aston Villa, he is also free at PSG, and everything indicates that he could also have it in Paris.
However, there is a possibility of seeing him in No. 3, free within the Paris club since Kimpembe's departure. Digne has worn it for a few years with the France national team, and he sported it with some success at Roma in 2015 2016 when he was on loan there, but also with LOSC when he launched his career. In short, everything should come down to 3 and 12 for Nuno Mendes' new backup.
Now, let's talk about Akliouche. He has worn 12 and 21 a few times, in Monaco or with the France national team, but there is very little chance that the elegant lefty will claim them. Since the very beginning of his career with Monaco, he has even changed regularly, going from No. 33 at the start to 21 before taking over at the start of the 2023- 24 season the No. 11, which he has kept since.
With Les Bleus, Akliouche usually gets the 25, but it belongs to Nuno Mendes in Paris, and there is little chance that the Portuguese, now among the three longest-serving players in the squad behind Marquinhos and Hakimi, will give it up. In any case, it matters little since Akliouche's favorite number, 11, has been free at PSG for a season and a half now. Marco Asensio freed it up when he left for Aston Villa, and no one has taken it since.
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