So he could have 88
Like a dog with a bone over some trivial shit. Standard samb.
That is from a terribly written Wikipedia article and has no citation whatsoever. If players could wear any they'd have done it 10 times over by now. Especially with all the idiots signed from Serie A.
Man City register all their youngsters, hence why you get kids coming on for them with daft numbers. But if you don't have enough players you can't just choose a stupidly high one like can be done in Italy.