FIFA's U21 player idea

This doesn’t make sense. A. number of lads u21 are not ready for 1st team football and playing them every match could well be detrimental to both the player and club. Plus if they have developed they will be played in every match like it or not.

 

Are they going to stop the top clubs hoovering up all the talent, so the under 21 players lower down are of a standard good enough to be included in match day squads
As we have seen with our own academy, very few make it to that level.

 

Sounds like a load of bollocks to me. What if a player gets injured, must be continue?

 

to be honest im not totally against the idea, it would encourage teams to look at youth players more something we have lacked previously.

There are gaps starting to appear now in national sides where teams are fielding sides not near the levels previously, having more kids given a go earlier may help that.

I dont think including one in the matchday squad is any good, all teams would do then is just argue for for more substitutes to be named and a kid is sat on the pitch for the sake of it.

to save arguements about two players being needed, keep it at one but a team wants to sub him off after ten minutes they can but its them who have lost a substitution and the number of subs shouldnt be increased

 

10 subs in every PL squad? We'll have to start giving squads the first 4 rows of every main stand soon. Feels waaay over the top although 9 subs being named is still probably 3 too many anyway. Even with six you'd still able to field every single one of them in a game assuming the sixth was a goalkeeper that wasn't required.

 

If it’s anything to do with the bald Italian too hat it’s wrong, corrupt and would you like an all expenses trip to the Rivera and a gold Rolex to as many unknown obese African chiefs as possible type scheme ?

 

They could potentially reward clubs that field younger players.

Like the way we got into the Intertoto for our discipline lol

Have a league table of who gives youngsters the most minutes and give them a cup bye or something the next season. Automatic entry into the second round of the FA Cup for the best performing team in League One and Two.

Small, but potentially meaningful.

Publishing the data could also raise a clubs stock among potential young players and clubs loaning put their own.

There are ways to incentives it without punishing anyone.

 

Having to play Wheatley every game would definitely have impacted us through.

 

Pretty sure this is a rule in the Polish Ekstraklasa already