New Newcastle United signing Kenedy will wear the number 15 shirt it was confirmed this afternoon.
The 21-year-old joined the Magpies from Chelsea yesterday on a loan deal until the end of the season, as Rafa Benitez made his first January signing.
The number 15 shirt had remained vacant so far this season after Mo Diame swapped it for the number 10 jersey at the start of this season.
Kenedy is the latest in a long line of number 15’s, but judging by the list of players who have previously worn the shirt, he hasn’t got a lot to live up to.
From Darren Peacock right through to Diame, we look back at the good, the bad and the ugly from Newcastle’s number 15’s during the Premier League era.
Darren Peacock (1994-95)
Peacock joined the club in 1994 from QPR and became an integral part of Kevin Keegan’s entertainers side.
The centre-half helped the club qualify for European football as well as narrowly missing out on the Premier League title.
Following the 1994/95 season, Peacock was handed the number five shirt, which he wore until he left the club in 1998 to join Blackburn.
Darren Peacock pictured in 1997 (Image: NCJ Archive)
Shaka Hislop (1995-98)
Hislop was the next man to don the number 15 jersey when he joined the club from Reading in 1995.
The keeper could never really nail down a place in the first team as both he and Pavel Srnicek battle for the number one spot.
Hislop largely played second fiddle to the late Czech, and eventually joined West Ham in 1998.
Newcastle 3-0 Coventry, Shaka Hislop, goalkeeper (Image: Mirrorpix)
Georgios Georgiadis (1998-99)
A member of the Panathinaikos team that surprisingly reached the 1995/96 Champions League semi-finals, it is fair to say Georgiadis’ time at Newcastle failed to reach similar heights.
A Greek international midfielder, he made just 10 league appearances before returning to Greece to join Paok in 1999.
Nolberto Solano (1999-01)
In a largely underwhelming list, Solano offers the greatest success story.
Signed from Boca Juniors in 1999, the Peruvian went on to be one of the club’s greatest ever right-midfielders.
After two seasons he took on the number four shirt for which he is more fondly remembered.
Nolberto Solano in action for Newcastle United (Image: 2003 Getty Images)
Marcelino (2001-02)
The less said about Marcelino the better.
Bought for just shy of £6 million in 1999, big things were expected of the Spanish defender. Just 20 appearances and three-and-a-half years later he left the club after a number of bizarre injuries.
He was originally the number three before that number was handed to Robbie Elliott in 2001.
Marcelino
Amdy Faye (2005-06)
Faye arrived with a lot of good will from Portsmouth but his short time at Newcastle was nothing short of disastrous.
After just one-and-a-half seasons on Tyneside, he joined Charlton after being used as a bit-part player in a makeshift midfield.
Former Newcastle United midfielder, Amdy Faye
Oguchi Onyewu (2007)
Having impressed in Belgium with Standard Liege, USA international defender Onyewu joined Newcastle on a loan deal in 2007.
He made just 11 appearances and made a number of costly errors. Unsurprisingly, Newcastle did not make the deal permanent.
Oguchi Onyewu rises above USA team-mate Brian McBride
Lamine Diatta (2008)
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The Senegalese international spent just two months at Newcastle. He signed for the Magpies in March following a successful but just two appearances later he was released on a free.
Diatta went on to play for Hamilton Academicals and Doncaster Rovers as well as taking in spells in Qatar and Tunisia.
Newcastle defender Lamine Diatta in action (Image: 2008 Getty Images)
Ignacio Gonzalez (2008-09)
Bought after Dennis Wise and co watched clips of him on YouTube.
He made just one appearance in a sorry loan spell from Valencia.
Ignacio Gonzalez of Newcastle United (Image: 2008 Getty Images)
Dan Gosling (2010-14)
Gosling arrived at Newcastle from Everton as one of the Premier League’s finest young talents but his time at Newcastle was blighted by injury.
After just 24 league appearances across four seasons, he joined Bournemouth where he has enjoyed a much greater deal of success.
Dan Gosling on the ball for Newcastle United against Morecambe
Facundo Ferreyra (2014-15)
Ferreyra joined on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk in 2014 and there was a keen sense of intrigue as to what he would bring to the club.
Unfortunately he brought very little, failing to make a single appearance for the first team.
Since returning to Shakhtar, however, he has gone from strength to strength scoring 19 goals last season and already bagging 20 goals this term.
Facundo Ferreyra (Image: Getty Images)
Jamaal Lascelles (2015-16)
Newcastle’s skipper was handed the number 15 shirt after returning from a loan spell at Nottingham Forest.
After spending the first half of the season as somewhat of a periphery figure, he stepped out of the shadows with a string of commanding displays towards the end of the season.
The following season he was handed the captaincy by Rafa Benitez and was also given the number six shirt after Mike Williamson’s departure.
Jamaal Lascelles shows his frustration after Southampton's third goal (Image: Christopher Lee/Getty Images)
Mo Diame (2016-17)
Diame joined from Hull City and played his part in the Championship title-winning season of last term.
His most notable contribution was scoring an inadvertent, but albeit, crucial winner against fellow promotion hopefuls Brighton.
He was handed the number 10 shirt at the start of this campaign.
Mohamed Diame of Newcastle challenges Beram Kayal of Brighton