Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Fifty Player Squad Restriction Is Unfair

Seriously, I can understand the need to limit the amount of players in a squad, as it will lead to hoarding and people trying to corner the market early on. I have no gripe with the rule as such, as I can fully understand why it was implemented. I do have a problem with the number of fifty players.

As it stands, a player is currently capable to create five squad. This generally means one senior squad and various youth squads or maybe even a reserve squad. Generally, the setup looks like this:

  1. Senior Squad
  2. Reserve Squad
  3. U21 Squad
  4. U19 Squad
  5. U17 Squad

Given that the minimum size of a healthy squad would be around 16 players, that means you have 80 players running around the club.

I have neglected the fact that players can feature in more than one team though. A very good youth player might feature in more than one youth team and maybe even in the senior team as well.

Still, as you can see it takes considerably more than 50 players to run a team with a full on youth academy effectively. Please SI, can't you raise the limit, so we don't get punished by poor morale and players rejecting their auto extends, whilst they actually do play enough games and have no realistic reason to complain?

2 comments:

  1. I believe this will be fixed with youth academies and new skill sets to extend facility capacities.

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