Thanks to an update from our colleague, we have found out what number Zachary Athekame will wear for AC Milan.
Today has been a busy day for Athekame. After a flight early this morning, he immediately headed to complete his medical and conduct the final pieces of work before heading to Casa Milan to complete his signing.
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According to our colleague Luca Maninetti, the right-back is currently in the process of heading to the headquarters to complete his move to the Rossoneri, as can be seen below.
🚨 #Athekame pronto per la firma ✍️🏻 con il #Milan 🔴⚫️ pic.twitter.com/hsXjUhLjIy
— Luca Maninetti (@LucaManinetti) August 14, 2025
Athekame’s number
However, some more news has emerged in the past few hours. Despite not officially being a Rossonero just yet, he has already chosen his new number, as our colleague Luca reports from his X account.
Like Alessandro Florenzi and Simon Kjaer, the Swissman has chosen to represent the 24 jersey for the Diavolo, becoming the 12th player to don the number. Since joining Young Boys, this is the number that he has chosen to represent, and it will become his most-used number in his career.
The right-back is expected to sign his deal to officially become a Milanista tonight, with the deal finalised in the region of €10 million. Negotiations did not take long at all, which is only a good thing for all parties.
Compared to Brown, he’s got the better YouTube compilation so I’m kinda optimistic about the transfer. These days we can only go by YouTube cuz no one knows the player.
I saw the game of Fenerbahce against Feyenord and Archie Brown was MOTM just outstanding we lost a good opportunity with that guy.
We didn’t lost, he preferred Turkey over Milan
Appreciate what u have bro…Nigerians
I’m excited over this transfer. He should be a major upgrade over what we had.
I mean even a tree would be an upgrade over emerson and walker😂
Hey that’s unfair!
That tree has done nothing to deserve those kind of comparisons 😁
😁
Emerson was injured again in Brazil and may be out for some time recently. I actually wished him better luck.
Injure again
Tare is a genius actually got money for Emerson not so Royal
Appreciate what u have bro..wetin bring Archie brown matter come here abeg….mmmtwwww