Nessy if your perfect squad size with your finances is 24 it must be a better squad if you had more finances and 25. So the fact that you have 24 reflects the fact that you dont have enough finances rather than enough players. And if you cant afford 25 players why shoulld you own a club when you are allowed 25 players. I mean I only have 18 players because I can only afford 18 players is actually stating that you cannot afford the club. Look 25 is better than 24 we know that.
No, we don't know that at all. If that was so blindingly obvious, then why do so few clubs have that many players? Why, before the ruling came in, did teams not recruit dozens or even hundreds of players?
There are many reasons why 25 might not be better than 24.
That 25th player is very unlikely to get a game. His wages could be put to better use improving the scouting network, or go towards improving the stadium. Instead you have a man on the payroll, a drain on resources, who is going to realise pretty quickly that he has no place in the manager's plans.
He'll get pissed off. He might miss training, who could blame him? But then, if he does that, how do the other players react? Maybe some of your more important players follow his example. Maybe they don't, maybe they just get really pissed off with him and it escalates into a brawl, someone gets injured or suspended. All because some twat in the finance department thinks he knows the manager's job and that 25 players
must be better than 24.
Based on sod all.
Even managers who like to rotate don't get through that many players, it disrupts the side to have that many players come in and out. And it means everyone else gets less game-time. Players don't like that. If they aren't getting enough time, they'll leave for another club where they will. Or perhaps you'd prefer the manager to weaken his team by selecting players who he doesn't believe are good enough?
There is nothing magic about the number 25, it's one the Premier League pulled out of their arses so as not to upset the clubs when they decided they wanted to make a statement about not having foreigners over-run the game, because it wouldn't actually affect the clubs. It isn't based on analysis of what makes an optimum squad. No club has ever won the league with a squad that size. Even if Man City change that this year, you'll find plenty of players in their 25 man squad who haven't really made a contribution.
Yet again, you view players purely as a commodity. They aren't. They are people. They need to be managed, not stacked on a shelf like a product. And I'm surprised that you of all people are so keen for the club to waste so much of that lovely money you are so fond of.
You might be able to "afford" 25 players, but you'll always be able to find ten better players than twenty of those. Football clubs can
always spend more money, it isn't a case of how many you can afford, it's how you spend the money available to deliver optimum quality. Yes, we could afford a hundred players if we paid League Two wages, but then we'd get League Two players, just lots of them. Fuck all use in qualifying for Europe.