Newcastle United today confirmed their squad numbers for the upcoming season.
Kieran Trippier has replaced his 15 shirt with a number 2 and new boy, Sven Botman has taken the number 4 while Targett and Pope have been handed 13 and 22 respectively. It’s as you were for the rest of the squad.
Squad numbers have been given to Matty Longstaff (#27), Kell Watts (#31) and Elliot Anderson (#32) suggesting that each of them could have a part to play in Newcastle’s season.
The Newcastle United twitter account knocked it out of the park with their tweet confirming the squad number for Sven Botman:
Anyone else just see a big number 4? pic.twitter.com/3WFnywQClT
— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) August 5, 2022
Riffing on last season’s big complaint about the home shirt and FUN88 sponsor combining to leave a Number 4 on the front of the shirt. Top marks for this one.
Confirmed squad numbers:
1 Martin Dúbravka
2 Kieran Trippier
3 Paul Dummett
4 Sven Botman
5 Fabian Schär
6 Jamaal Lascelles
7 Joelinton
8 Jonjo Shelvey
9 Callum Wilson
10 Allan Saint-Maximin
11 Matt Ritchie
12 Jamal Lewis
13 Matt Targett
17 Emil Krafth
18 Federico Fernández
19 Javier Manquillo
20 Chris Wood
21 Ryan Fraser
22 Nick Pope
23 Jacob Murphy
24 Miguel Almirón
26 Karl Darlow
27 Matty Longstaff
28 Joe Willock
29 Mark Gillespie
31 Kell Watts
32 Elliot Anderson
33 Dan Burn
36 Sean Longstaff
39 Bruno Guimarães