Squad

Clifton, Keeble, Sawyer, Akheem Rose & Wright wil be on low money, Asante & McAllister are always injured.

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So that leaves 5 fit senior players sat in the stands then,or put it this way propably around 1/4 million a year.  

Once you add in the 5 young pros and those two injured its likely to be 350-400k for players not in our match day squad.

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Quoted from Swansea_Mariner

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So that leaves 5 fit senior players sat in the stands then,or put it this way propably around 1/4 million a year.  

You think our 1st teamers are on 50k a year? Unlikely I'd say.

Quoted from pizzzza

You think our 1st teamers are on 50k a year? Unlikely I'd say.

Our first teamers possibly are but I highly doubt that the average we pay is a grand a week even if you don't include the youngsters who will be on very little.

I bet Dembele is on peanuts at the minute too. Couple of hundred quid a week.

SInce he had a bad injury last year and had Stevenage and us after him, plus being an effectively "new player" because he'd only ever been at the Nike Academy. He'll be on next to nowt, Rose will be on less than Dis I guess

Quoted from Swansea_Mariner

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So that leaves 5 fit senior players sat in the stands then,or put it this way propably around 1/4 million a year.  

Once you add in the 5 young pros and those two injured its likely to be 350-400k for players not in our match day squad.

So are you suggesting that we should only have 18 players in order to not have to pay players who aren't in the match day squad?  Unless you've got injuries and suspensions you will nearly always have some fit players sat in the stands because you'd be mental to only have a squad of 18.

The minimum size of a squad in L2 seems to be 20 senior players with some youth teamers propping it up. Morecambe, who almost certainly have one of the lowest budgets in the league, have got a squad of 28. Barnet have a squad of 35. Stevenage have a squad of 28. Crawley have a squad of 26. Cheltenham have 25. Out of all the teams who I'm fairly confident have a lower budget than we do only Yeovil and Accrington have got significantly smaller squads, both having 21 registered players.

With the transfer window now meaning that you can't loan players between September and January, most teams seem to be stockpiling a little bit in order to avoid any real injury or suspension crises. Has to make you question the point of the transfer window but that's a different argument. Bearing in mind we can't get anyone else in now should we find ourselves with injuries, to moan about having fit players sat in the stands seems a bit moronic to me because people would undoubtedly moan if we couldn't field a full bench at any point.

I can understand if people moan about the balance of the squad which I don't think is very good and I can also understand if people moan about the quality. It does seem like we've made some panic signings or regretted previous signings so signed players purely because they've become available, why else would you sign a fifth winger or a sixth striker when you only play one at a time? But we also have some long term absentees and players who there are doubts will ever actually get fit for us and given the new rules you can see why clubs stockpile players.

I believe that ev n prem teams have to name a squad of only 24 or 25, otherwise your Chelsea's Man U's etc would have at least squads of 40+. Slade's going to have to buy a lot of Xmas presents this year.

Quoted from mariner91

So are you suggesting that we should only have 18 players in order to not have to pay players who aren't in the match day squad?  Unless you've got injuries and suspensions you will nearly always have some fit players sat in the stands because you'd be mental to only have a squad of 18.

The minimum size of a squad in L2 seems to be 20 senior players with some youth teamers propping it up. Morecambe, who almost certainly have one of the lowest budgets in the league, have got a squad of 28. Barnet have a squad of 35. Stevenage have a squad of 28. Crawley have a squad of 26. Cheltenham have 25. Out of all the teams who I'm fairly confident have a lower budget than we do only Yeovil and Accrington have got significantly smaller squads, both having 21 registered players.

With the transfer window now meaning that you can't loan players between September and January, most teams seem to be stockpiling a little bit in order to avoid any real injury or suspension crises. Has to make you question the point of the transfer window but that's a different argument. Bearing in mind we can't get anyone else in now should we find ourselves with injuries, to moan about having fit players sat in the stands seems a bit moronic to me because people would undoubtedly moan if we couldn't field a full bench at any point.

I can understand if people moan about the balance of the squad which I don't think is very good and I can also understand if people moan about the quality. It does seem like we've made some panic signings or regretted previous signings so signed players purely because they've become available, why else would you sign a fifth winger or a sixth striker when you only play one at a time? But we also have some long term absentees and players who there are doubts will ever actually get fit for us and given the new rules you can see why clubs stockpile players.

Of those squads you quote how many are over the age of 21?

I'm not suggesting a squad of 18 more like 21 with a couple of young pros so max 25.