FC Barcelona shirt numbers confirmed
FC Barcelona have confirmed their first team shirt numbers a day after the transfer market closed.
With no additions in the final stretch of the transfer window and Neymar's comeback aborted, Ernesto Valverde and the club have closed the squad. However, the team will have to come back from La Liga to hunt a leading Atletico side on their own.
The club has already distributed the numbers that will be definitive throughout the season and there have been changes with the famous request made by De Jong to Aleñà to carry the number '21', leaving the academy product with the number '19'.
"Neto will defend the '13' that Cillessen had taken in his stage as a Barça player. For his part, Griezmann will continue defending the '17', a number that Murillo had taken last season. Another one of the signings of this course, Junior, will have play with the '24'. A number that Thomas Vermaelen had defended his last season as a Barcelona player.
As for Moussa Wague, who climbs from Barça B to the first team, will look the '16' that had taken Sergi Samper last year until his departure to Vissel Kobe. In this way, numbers that are relevant in Barça's history such as the '7', the '12' or the '14' this year will be free for now, as explained by the team itself.