Manchester City 2016-2017 Third Shirt - Yaya Touré No.42 (S)

📐 Flat measurements

Lay a shirt that fits you well flat, measure it the same way and compare — vintage often sizes differently from new.

No flaws. On an orange this saturated, the slightest fading would jump out — there is none, and the fade to blue-purple stays crisp all the way down the shirt. The fine horizontal stripes are intact, with no washing moiré. The TOURE YAYA 42 print is flawless, including the Premier League lions tucked inside the numbers. Both Premier League patches are perfectly bonded, no lifted edges, no yellowing of the white outline. Crisp circular crest, V-neck with no stretching, no pilling, no snags.

Unsure about the size? This 2016 Nike S is a fitted cut (48 x 70 cm): compare the flat measurements above, or check my sizing guide.

✦ Authenticity guaranteed for life

Item checked by hand in my authentication workshop. If an item bought from me is ever identified as a unofficial piece, I refund it in full. Guarantee with no expiry date.

• Inner label photographed (photo 4): Nike reference 776901-817, size S and batch HO160307NAG. The -817 suffix matches the orange colourway of the 2016 range
• The Premier League patch is the new purple lion logo, introduced for the 2016-2017 season to replace the gold lion on blue. It is the most reliable dating marker on this shirt: a City third with the old patch cannot be from this season
• The circular crest — ship, Lancashire rose, “18” and “94” either side — is the one the club adopted at the end of 2015. It is embroidered, not printed, with clear relief under the finger
• The fade is woven, not printed: the blue stripes run through the knit and appear identically on the inside. On a unofficial, the inside stays plain orange
• Real photos of the exact item sold, never stock images — full method in my authentication guide

📖 The year Guardiola arrived in Manchester

A fluorescent orange third that fades into purple, from the most closely watched season in the club's recent history: 2016-2017 is the year Manchester City changed era.

📅 Pep Guardiola's first season. He arrived in the summer of 2016 and immediately rewrote the club's playbook. City finished 3rd in the Premier League — the only trophyless season of his Manchester spell, before the haul that followed.

⚡ The Yaya Touré – Guardiola stand-off. Left out of the squad early in the season, the Ivorian returned to the starting eleven in the autumn and became decisive again. A pivotal season for him, two years before he left the club.

🦁 The new Premier League logo. 2016-2017 was the first season of the purple lion on the sleeves. A detail collectors spot instantly.

🎨 A third City has never revisited — saturated orange up top, blue-purple at the bottom, blended through stripes. A world away from the usual sky blue and white, and exactly why it became one of the club's most sought-after thirds.

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