1 Tim Krul 2 Fabricio Coloccini 3 Davide Santon 4 Ryan Taylor 6 Mike Williamson 7 Moussa Sissoko 8 Vurnon Anita 9 Papiss Cisse 10 Siem de Jong 11 Yoan Gouffran 13 Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa 14 Jack Colback 15 Facundo Ferreyra 16 Rolando Aarons 17 Ayoze Perez 18 Jonas Gutierrez 19 Massadio Haidara 20 Remy Cabella 21 Rob Elliot 22 Daryl Janmaat 23 Haris Vuckic 24 Cheick Tiote 25 Gabriel Obertan 26 Hatem Ben Arfa 27 Steven Tayor 28 Sammy Ameobi 29 Emmanuel Riviere 30 Mehdi Abeid 31 Jak Alnwick 32 Adam Armstrong 33 Curtis Good 34 Remie Streete 35 Adam Campbell 36 Paul Dummett 37 Lubo Satka 38 Gael Bigirimana 39 Shane Ferguson 40 Olivier Kemen 41 Freddie Woodman 42 Kevin Mbabu
Siem gets the 10 ahead of Cabella. Ben Arfa relegated to 26 (almost surprised he was given one at all). Interestingly numbers 5 and 12 kept free - ready and waiting for a new CB and striker (Lacazette)?
Surprised HBA was given one but I suppose this backs up what Pardew was saying about not closing the door on him. Pleased SDJ has the number 10, but in truth, its only a number! I hope you're right Tasty. I hope Rolando getting 16 suggests he is firmly part of the first team squad - after all he is Cristiano Ronaldo crossed with John Barnes.
5 and 12 have been retired in honour of NUFC legend Danny Simpson! Seriously though, its nice to see a lot of the younger lads "promoted" as it were, to higher squad numbers, especially Aarons who has been put firstly amongst the first-team squad, but on the flip side it makes it obvious whose time is running out of the club, when they get "demoted", namely Ben Arfa (who knew?!) Bigirimana (shame) and Ferguson (disappointing)
Aarons given 16 which is nice to see and interesting Jonas has kept his number too which is a suprise as he seems missing! also glad cisse kept the number 9 last thing he needs is another knock to his confidence
