Matheus Cunha arrived from Wolves in a £62.5million deal earlier this summer and his Man United shirt number has now been revealed.
Matheus Cunha
Matheus Cunha(Image: Manchester United/Manchester United via Getty Images.)
Matheus Cunha will wear the number 10 shirt at Manchester United after Marcus Rashford informed Manchester United of his desire to leave the club.
Cunha arrived from Wolves in a £62.5million deal earlier this summer. Cunha wore the number 10 shirt in his final season at Molineux and he has been handed the same squad number at United.
It comes following the news that the previous occupier of United's number 10 shirt, Rashford, has informed the club of his desire to leave Old Trafford this summer.
Rashford spent the second half of last season on loan at Aston Villa, scoring four goals in 17 appearances. He has been linked with Barcelona and Bayern Munich, with United understood to want £40m for the England international.
United sources insist Rashford will remain a significant part of the club's recent history and that he will always be respected as one of United's most successful academy graduates.
Cunha will get the chance to link up with his new teammates for the first time next week as United players return for pre-season training. Ruben Amorim and his staff have already returned to United's Carrington training base, with the first friendly of the summer taking place on July 19 against Leeds in Stockholm.
After that United will jet off to the United States where they will participate in the Premier League Summer Series, facing West Ham, Bournemouth and Everton. They’ll then return to England before a friendly against Fiorentina at Old Trafford on Saturday, 9 August.
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