Thierry Henry explained his feelings on arsenal 14 shirt while Viktor Gyokerres takes an emblematic squad number

Viktor Gyokertes could follow an arsenal legend at its long -awaited acceleration in the Gunners in the coming days.

A breakthrough has been reached for the Swedish striker after prolonged negotiations with Sporting, Arsenal who would pay around 63 million pounds sterling, including the additional modules for gyoker. However, another report said that total costs could be closer to 57 million pounds sterling, saving arsenal a little money and justifying their talks with Sporting.

If everything goes as planned, Gyokerres could be an arsenal player next week, where he would then go to Asia to join his new teammates for their friendly finish against Rivals Tottenham next week. Fans of Gunners will be eager to see how he slips, and also what shirt number their new man will wear.

Some clubs have published temporary shirt numbers to new signatures this summer, Manchester City clearly indicating that the figures worn by Rayan Cherki, Rayan Ait-Nouri and Tijjani Reijnders during the Club World Cup may not be their official squad numbers in the future. Liverpool also published figures in the 1950s to their new signatures before the official confirmed numbers before the start of the new season.

According to AthleticsGykerres will have its Medical Arsenal on Saturday and chose the iconic number 14 at the Emirates stadium. This will see him follow in the footsteps of legend Thierry Henry, while Marcus Rashford also took Henry’s number 14 in Barcelona.

Henry explained why he chose the number that was now married to him thanks to his glorious spell in Highbury, but he admitted that he would have preferred a different number when he signed in 1999.

Talk to Cesc Fabregas in an Instagram live in 2020Henry admitted that he would have preferred to wear the number 12 after his idol Marco Van Basten, but he was already taken so he had to opt for a different number.

“I came back with number 12 (for his second fate in 2012), this is my number in fact. Fourteen is not my number,” he admitted to Spanish. “I took the number 14 at Arsenal because Christopher Wreh had number 12, so I didn’t want to remove it. That’s the reason, I didn’t want to withdraw it. That’s why when I came back, number 12 because of Marco Van Basten at Euro 88.”

Gyoker to follow certain great arsenal

If Gyokerres is confirmed as number 14, he will follow some memorable players from Arsenal to put on this shirt number.

The Swedish had brought the number before during his brief visit to Swansea City in 2020/21, but has since brought 17 to Coventry and the N ° 9 shirt in Sporting in the past three years.

Before Henry, the shirt belonged to Kevin Campbell, Perry Groves and Martin Keown before Henry’s long emblematic passage from 1999 to 2007. Theo Walcott took the number for 10 years between 2008 and the 2017/18 campaign.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was next to bringing 14 this season until 2021/22, before the graduate of the Eddie Nketiah Academy inherited him until his departure last summer. He has been vacant since.

Nketiah spoke of the weight of the number in 2022 when he became the third player from Henry to wear it.

“The story he established, I wanted to take this number”, ” He said. “Thierry was a great player, but I’m just trying to create my own memories in this shirt, and I have things to look back when my career is over. I have a huge pride of the shirt and I know what it means for fans.

“I had a few conversations with him because he is a lot at the stadium, and he was delighted for me. He wishes me the best and always supports me, which is really pleasant to hear.

“(Being trained by Thierry) was my favorite year at the Academy, certainly! It was so fun to score goals and choose your brain day after day. By working with someone from this standard, you can see the mentality he has – when he joined the training, he hates losing so much and who repels himself.

“Out of the field, he’s such a cool guy. Sometimes I would talk to him and I would go home and said to my friends that I had just relaxed with Thierry and they thought I was lying! He’s a wonderful guy and I learned so much with him.”

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