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Manchester Evening News
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Richard Fay

Casemiro explains why he chose Manchester United shirt number

It's rather fitting that Manchester United have a midfield dynamo rocking the No.18 shirt once again. Paul Scholes made the number iconic during his first-spell at the club, wearing it between 1996 and 2011, while it was also the first number Bruno Fernandes wore when he joined from Sporting Lisbon.

The Portuguese swapped to his preferred No.8 during the past summer, and that left the famous midfield number vacant once again ahead of Casemiro's arrival.

The Brazil international is already writing his own legacy at Old Trafford but the shirt number he wears obviously brings comparisons with Scholes.

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