Fulham have confirmed their squad numbers for the 2024/2025 season.
Bernd Leno will wear number one, Rodrigo Muniz has chosen to take the number nine shirt, whilst summer signing Jorge Cuenca will sport the number 15. Leno’s ascension to number one means that Alex Iwobi, who previously wore 22, will switch to number 17 – which ties in the name of his community foundation. Sasa Lukic has taken the number 20, which was the number that he made his senior breakthrough with when he came through the ranks at Partizan Belgrade.
Josh King (24) and Jay Stansfied (28) have been given more prominent numbers on account of their pre-season performances, whilst Ryan Sessegnon has opted for the number which he wore at the very start of his Fulham career, which is number 30. Emile Smith Rowe has selected the number 32 – which was the shirt number he was assigned when he broke into first team contention with Arsenal.
FULL FULHAM SQUAD NUMBERS:
1. Bernd Leno
2. Kenny Tete
3. Calvin Bassey
6. Harrison Reed
7. Raúl Jiménez
8. Harry Wilson
9. Rodrigo Muniz
10. Tom Cairney
11. Adama Traoré
15. Jorge Cuenca
17. Alex Iwobi
18. Andreas Pereira
20. Saša Luki?
21. Timothy Castagne
23. Steven Benda
24. Josh King
28. Jay Stansfield
30. Ryan Sessegnon
31. Issa Diop
32. Emile Smith Rowe
33. Antonee Robinson
36. Alex Borto
44. Luc De Fougerolles
47. Martial Godo
It looks the defensive line not strong enough. It is hard to expect quality strikers playing through season without injury. Challenge top six is huge difficulty even has a risk to achieve lower than last season !
My glass is half full – it has been a good summer, and the squad is at least as good as the end of August last year. But I’ll wait and see how much of that half glass they spill and refill in last few days of the transfer window trolley dash. Good to see King and Stansfield getting numbers – hopefully it means they are (a) staying and (b) playing now and then.
Still think we are 3 signings away and even with that, im not convinced Muniz can do a full season of what he done since Jan. I hope he does, but i just cant see him being prolific enough to get 10-15.
Still need a 6 (at least one), another centre back and a winger. maybe even another 8 as well but not massively urgent as the others.
4 and 5 both still available. Let’s hope we get at least one of them, and soon.
Predictably, Mbabu and Vinicius get no numbers. I hope we get some money for them.
It looks like we have space for 5 more senior (over 21) players in the 25-man squad. I don’t expect to sign 5, but 3 would be nice (as James pointed out).
Luki? a bit dodgy!