Barcelona striker Depay to offer shirt number to Lewandowski | OneFootball

Barcelona striker Memphis Depay may give up his No9 shirt to new signing Robert Lewandowski.

The striker is joining Barca from Bayern Munich.

AS says it seems likely that Barcelona's current number nine, Depay, will follow the time-honoured tradition of offering up his shirt to the new arrival, assuming the Netherlands forward isn't moved on himself with Ansu Fati set to return and Lewandowski hardly likely to be spending much time on the bench.

Other options for the prolific Pole are short: the number 11 is vacant after Adama Traoré was returned to Wolves after a loan spell and that might appeal to Lewandowski as he wore that same number briefly during his early days with the national team.

That, however, is the only first XI number currently going. Squad numbers available include 15 (formerly Clément Lenglet's), 16 (vacated by Pedri, who has moved to number eight after Dani Alves cut his second spell at Camp Nou short) and 17, left open by the departure of Luuk de Jong.

Shirts also need to be assigned to new signings Raphinha, Pablo Torre, Franck Kessié and Andreas Christensen.