Fabien Barthez

Two very different kinds of shirt

Twenty-nine items carry the Barthez name, and they split into two groups that are easy to confuse. About twenty are Manchester United goalkeeper shirts numbered 1, from 2000-02, the 2001-02 Centenary season and 2002-04 — including one Player Issue version, cut and made for the squad rather than sold in shops. The rest are France: two 2000-02 goalkeeper shirts numbered 16, and seven 1998-00 France home shirts carrying the printed wording “Pour Toi Fabien Barthez”. Those last ones are outfield home shirts, not goalkeeper kit, which surprises buyers who expect a keeper jersey.

What the range does not cover

Barthez played for Toulouse, Marseille, Monaco, Manchester United and Nantes, and won the 1998 World Cup, Euro 2000 and the 2003 Confederations Cup with France. The stock here starts in 1998 and stops in 2004, so it covers the Manchester United years and the France shirt of the 1998 tournament. There is nothing from his Champions League win with Marseille in 1993, nothing from Monaco, and nothing from the 2006 World Cup final.

Condition and price

Grades run from 5/10 to 10/10 with a median of 8. This is the expensive end of the site: listed prices have spanned roughly £23 to £419, with a median near £209, and the France home shirts alone have ranged from £179 to £359. One listing spells his first name “Fabian”, so search both spellings.