Premier League football 2012/13: Team guide – Newcastle United
Ahead of the new season, your at-a-glance guide to last season's fifth-placed team
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STADIUM: St James’s Park
MANAGER: Alan Pardew
LAST SEASON STATS
Premier League: 5th
FA Cup: 4th Round
League Cup: 4th Round
Europe: Did not qualify
Top scorer (all comps): Demba Ba, 16
SQUAD
| KEEPERS
1 Tim Krul 21 Rob Elliot 37 Steve Harper DEFENDERS 2 Fabricio Coloccini 3 Davide Santon 5 Danny Simpson 6 Mike Williamson 14 James Perch 16 Ryan Taylor 27 Steven Taylor 31 Shane Ferguson 34 James Tavernier |
MIDFIELDERS
4 Yohan Cabaye 10 Hatem Ben Arfa 13 Mehdi Abeid 15 Dan Gosling 18 Jonas Gutierrez 22 Sylvain Marveaux 24 Cheick Tiote 25 Gabriel Obertan 29 Haris Vuckic 49 Gael Bigirimana |
FORWARDS
9 Papiss Cisse 19 Demba Ba 23 Shola Ameobi 28 Sammy Ameobi |
STAR MAN: PAPISS CISSE
Explosive striker who hit 13 goals in 13 starts for the Toon last season
MIDFIELD GENERAL: YOHAN CABAYE
The French international is the heartbeat of the Magpies
SUMMER TRANSFERS
IN: Gael Bigirimana (Coventry, £1m), Romain Amalfitano (Reims, free)
OUT: Leon Best (Blackburn, £3m), Fraser Forster (Celtic, £2m), Danny Guthrie (Reading, free), Peter Lovenkrands (Birmingham, free), Alan Smith (MK Dons, free) Ryan Donaldson (released), Tamas Kadar (released)
STRONGEST LINE-UP
[GK] Krul
[RB] Simpson
[CB] Coloccini
[CB] S Taylor
[LB] Santon
[RM] Ben Arfa
[CM] Tiote
[CM] Cabaye
[LM] Gutierrez
[SS] Ba
[CF] Cisse
4-4-1-1 Playing style: direct
TOP 3 TWITTER STARS
1 DANNY SIMPSON – 174,733 followers
2 DEMBA BA – 127,623 followers
3 YOHAN CABAYE – 71,331 followers
RATINGS
DEFENCE 6
MIDFIELD 7.5
ATTACK 8.5
OVERALL 7.33
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