Chelsea have assigned the quantity 19 shirt to new signing Jadon Sancho for the 2024/25 season.
Sancho has signed for the Blues on an preliminary mortgage from Manchester United – if sure undisclosed situations are met, the deal will change into everlasting.
The winger’s transfer to Stamford Bridge was wrapped up simply earlier than the switch deadline, though affirmation wasn’t made public till practically 24 hours later.
With Sancho now within the door, Chelsea have handed him his squad quantity for the upcoming marketing campaign, with the England worldwide taking 19.
There’s a peculiar current historical past of that quantity at Chelsea. It was really assigned to fellow summer time signing Pedro Neto following his swap from Wolves final month, and he made his debut towards Manchester Metropolis in that shirt.
Nonetheless, Neto quickly modified to seven – which was stripped off of Raheem Sterling, who has since joined Arsenal on mortgage – and so the 19 was left vacant once more.
Neto had taken 19 off of one other participant Chelsea deemed surplus to necessities, with Armando Broja additionally dropping his quantity earlier than heading out on mortgage to Everton.
Earlier than Broja, 19 was worn by academy graduate Mason Mount, who left to hitch United in the summertime of 2023 however is but to rediscover the type of his Chelsea days.
The likes of Diego Costa, Demba Ba, Paulo Ferreira, Lassana Diarra and Scott Parker have additionally taken on 19 for the Blues within the Premier League period of everlasting shirt numbers.
Sancho won’t be eligible to make his Chelsea debut towards Crystal Palace on Sunday, however may characteristic of their journey to Bournemouth on the opposite aspect of the September worldwide break.
