Everton completed the £24million signing of Morgan Schneiderlin from Manchester United on Thursday, but after a fee had finally been agreed by both parties, there was one element of the announcement which was rather perplexing.
Barely had the ink dried before some of the club's supporters expressed their bemusement on social media that the Frenchman would succeed Tony Hibbert in wearing the No 2 shirt at Goodison Park.
It is not the first time that a player has opted to wear a number traditionally worn by someone in another area of the pitch.
Mythical forward Nwankwo Kanu wore No 4 for Nigeria, and Lothar Matthaus donned the No 10 jersey for Germany despite playing as a sweeper, while defender Marcel Desailly won the World Cup in 1998 wearing No 8 for France.