Leeds United have confirmed the all-important shirt numbers for the coming Championship campaign of 2018/19.
π° | Bailey takes the number one jersey, Ronaldo moves to eight, and Tyler becomes eleven. Check out all the squad number changes for the upcoming 2018/19 season
β Leeds United (@LUFC) July 26, 2018
Well, I say all-important, Iβm not sure shirt numbers these days can be overly read into as players pick their favourite numbers with little rhyme or reason for the more traditional fans of 1 to 11, but Leeds set this year does confirm a few things for the faithful and give us an opening into manager Marcelo Bielsaβs thinking.
Numbers 3, 5 and 9 for traditional thinking have been left vacant which surely implies plans are afoot behind the scenes to actually add some players on a permanent basis as opposed to the loan deals weβve seen so far.
Vurnon Anita, Eunan OβKane, Ouasim Bouy, Hadi Sacko, Caleb Ekuban and Luke Murphy have all not featured in pre-season and have found themselves omitted from the list so the expectation is they are all off if we can find suitors.
Yosuke Ideguchi is also missing despite his pre-season involvement.
Full Squad:
1 Bailey Peacock-Farrell
2 Luke Ayling
4 Adam Forshaw
6 Liam Cooper
7 Kemar Roofe
8 Ronaldo Vieira
10 Ezgjan Alioski
11 Tyler Roberts
12 Laurens De Bock
14 Samuel Saiz
15 Stuart Dallas
18 Pontus Jansson
19 Pablo Hernandez
20 Tom Pearce
23 Kalvin Phillips
27 Jamal Blackman
28 Gaetano Berardi
34 Lewis Baker
35 Conor Shaughnessy
39 Ryan Edmondson
41 Sam Dalby
42 Callum Nicell
43 Mateusz Klich
44 Hugo Diaz
46 Jamie Shackleton
47 Jack Clarke
48 Jordan Stevens
49 Oriol Rey
50 Pascal Struijk
No number 5 either. CB incoming?
β π (@Max_LUFC) July 26, 2018
3 is for barry douglas and 9 will be for vydra (should they sign)
β βΩ (@thomasftbI) July 26, 2018
New Centre half ????????
β Free Agent (@lufcccc) July 26, 2018
yes
β βΩ (@thomasftbI) July 26, 2018
@Mazzaleeds with Ronny getting number 8 it looks promising for him #imo he will defo be a big part of the squad this season #lufc heβs not getting number 8 for nothing
β paul kelly (@paulie_lufc) July 26, 2018
Numbers mean nothing these days
β Bloody Mary ???? (@Mazzaleeds) July 26, 2018
Hopefully a loan
β Andrew Burke (@andrewMOT) July 26, 2018
Deserves a chance but the goalposts have moved since January
β Andrew Burke (@andrewMOT) July 26, 2018
What a proud moment it must be for Bailey getting the no 1 jersey
β DavidK (@DavidKershaw7) July 26, 2018