New Hearts capture Sulley Ali Muntari is wearing the number 10 jersey for the club since signing on a free transfer.

The same jersey number was worn by Emmanuel Nettey who has since departed the club for pastures anew in the gulf region.

It is unheard of in football to have two players of the same club wear the same jersey number in a single season but in exceptional cases it happens.

Emmanuel Nettey wore jersey number 10 in the first round of the Ghana Premier League season and ordinarily that number should lie idle till at least next season.

But when the veteran Sulley Muntari signed for the club Hearts petitioned the Ghana Football Association on 4th February,2022 to allow their marquee signing wear that number on a special dispensation.

The phobians argued that the jersey number is now vacant since the departure of Emmanuel Nettey and so should be handed to Muntari which the GFA obliged.

There is precedence to this story as Manchester United gave out jersey number 7 which was registered to Edinson Cavani to Cristiano Ronaldo when he joined in the summer from Juventus.