James Tarkowski will wear the number two shirt for Everton and becomes the ninth player to do so ever since squad numbers were introduced at the start of the 1993/94 season – the second year of the Premier League.
The 29-year-old had worn number five for Burnley for the past five seasons but that is already taken, ironically by his former Clarets centre-back partner Michael Keane, who Tarkowski, initially wearing 26 at Turf Moor, inherited the number from in 2017 when his team-mate moved to Goodison Park in a £25million transfer.
Although captain Seamus Coleman has been Everton’s first choice right-back for a number of years now, the Irishman has retained his original number 23 jersey for over a decade.
