It seems to be universally accepted that Swansea City's deadline day move to sign Renato Sanches on loan is one of the best Premier League deals of the summer.

The Portuguese youngster heads to Wales on a temporary move from Bayern Munich , with Swans boss Paul Clement - a former assistant at the German club - making good use of his contacts.

Sanches was in the Portugal squad which won Euro 2016 last year, but struggled for game time at the Allianz Arena following his move from Benfica last May.

Sanches in rare action for Bayern (
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Rex Features)

And it seems as though Sanches was determined to remember those good times now he's at Swansea.

Because he initially chose to wear the number 85 shirt for the club, which is the same number he wore in Lisbon.

He sported the 85 shirt at Benfica (
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Octavio Passos)
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Swansea FC/Twitter)

No-one has ever worn a higher number in the Premier League before, but after Swansea tweeted the news of the new number, they were soon forced to correct themselves.

Citing a Premier League rule that "squad numbers must be consecutive and close to the current highest number" they confirmed that the league had made Sanches change his number from 85 to 35.

High numbers are common in the Premier League, though.

Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold has turned heads sporting No. 66 this season, while Kelechi Iheanacho wore No. 72 at Manchester City before he left for Leicester this summer.

The highest number ever worn in the league is currently the No. 78 shirt sported by Manchester City's Jose Angel Pozo against Sunderland in December 2014

Alexander-Arnold sports No. 66 for Liverpool (
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Rex Features)
While Iheanacho had 72 at City (
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Manchester Evening News)
Pozo is the current record holder (
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Manchester Evening News)

But the first time Sanches stepped onto the pitch in his No. 85 Swansea shirt he would have broken that record, only for it to be snatched away from him.

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