Newcastle name their squad of ‘no more than 25’.
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 | 81 Comments |
Firstly, let me apologise for the relative lateness of this. Most of you know that I try to be on the on the ball as much as I can with things like this but I had a rather important hospital appointment to attend yesterday, then a series of meetings at work which meant I wasn’t around as much as I would be usually.
Anyhoo, where was I? Ahh yes, the squad of ‘no more than 25’. The only real point of interest over the announcement was regarding defender Steven Taylor. He is out until October through injury and has yet to sign a new contract at Newcastle, which is why he is on the transfer list. People were looking to see whether or not he would be named in the squad or not. You’ll no doubt already know by now that he has so I will spare you the dramatic build up.
But what could that mean? Does it mean that it is expected he will sign a new contract? Or does it mean that we have him until January anyway so we may aswell make use of him even though he may well be off to a new club in the new year? Who knows, but there is just two ways of looking at his inclusion anyway.
Right, onto our squad that will take us through until the next registration period in January. Bear in mind that players that are 21 or under don’t count towards the quota but can still be played at any time throughout the season, so don’t panic if you think you have missed names such as Andy Carroll or Haris Vuckic as they count as under-21’s.
We also need to remember that eight of the players in the squad of ‘no more than 25 players’ must be home-grown. The definition of ‘home-grown’ is that a player, regardless of nationality, must have been trained for three years under the age of 21 by a club within the English and Welsh professional system. Newcastle are fine on that count and have more than enough home-grown players. Here is the squad in full.
Goalkeepers – Steve Harper, Tim Krul, Fraser Forster.
Defenders – James Perch, Danny Simpson, Fabricio Collocini, Mike Williamson, Sol Campbell, Steven Taylor, Jose Enrique.
Midfielders – Wayne Routledge, Hatem Ben Arfa, Cheick Tiote, Joey Barton, Alan Smith, Danny Guthrie, Kevin Nolan, Ryan Taylor, Jonas Gutierrez.
Atackers – Shola Ameobi, Leon Best, Xisco, Peter Lovenkrands.
Fraser Forster has been included as he has the option of being recalled by the club from his loan at Celtic and would need to be registered to feature for us. Ryan Taylor has been put in midfield by me as I couldn’t quite work out where he would definately fit, plus I don’t like him at right-back!
So there you go. All 23 of our squad in their glory. Like I said, players that aren’t old enough to be named can supplement the squad at any time throughout the season. It does leave two spaces for new arrivals should any out oof contract players arrive, or they could fill those spaces in the January window if the club chooses to.
Don’t panic, we aren’t the only club that have not named a full 25-man squad!
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Well,after some decent calculation,Chelsea has the least amount of registered senior players, 19 to be exact. ;)