Corinthians announced Wednesday that the Dutch striker Memphis Depay will carry the number 10 this season, a previously agreed decision that disliked the previous ‘owner’ of the shirt, the Argentine Rodrigo Garro.
The Brazilian club showed in a video on social networks the former player of Atlético de Madrid and Barcelona raising the Albinegra shirt with the registration ‘Memphis 10’.
Memphis will premiere the new numbering in Wednesday’s classic of the Paulista Championship against Santos de Neymar, which also carries 10, in the neo chemistry sand of São Paulo.
So far, the Argentine Rodrigo Garro carried the 10 And Memphis, who arrived at the Brazilian club in September last year, wore the shirt With number 94.
Rodrigo Garro will take the ‘8’
Speaking to TNT, Garro recognized his dissatisfaction with the change, although he said he respects the club’s decisions.
“If the club sees some kind of benefit and thinks it is ideal at this time, I have to respect it. As I said, It was not a decision to please me “, The Argentine affirmed, who will now wear shirt number 8.
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In statements to local media Mempay denied any discussion with Garro And he said that his relationship with the Argentine is “much greater” than a shirt and that they need each other to “make history” in the Corinthians.
According to the GE Sports Portal, the change in the numbering was stipulated in one of the clauses of the contract signed between Memphis and the Brazilian club last year.
