With United's transfer window having been a particularly quiet one, it makes it even more interesting that two crucial squad numbers are still vacant in the team. While it's a possibility that Kagawa (or someone else) could move to number seven, and van Persie to number nine, it's hard to get your head around what's going to happen.

Nobody had taken much notice of this until last weekend's Community Shield, in which we discovered Ecuadorian winger Antonio Valencia had reverted back to his old shirt number, twenty five, after a season long stint as United's number seven.

Either Valencia is a particularly supersticious man and blames his poor season on his number change, or United have cleared the number for a certain someone, and we all know who would get priority over that shirt number (and if you don't, he's a certain someone from the island of Madeira).

With 18 days left to go, are United looking to make two big-name transfers to acquire the numbers? Are they doing it to attract bigger players? With Rooney looking for an exit too, that'll leave nine and ten both vacant for big name strikers, while seven will remain a mystery for now...