No, they don't but I wouldn't want to be telling them they were in the league squad but being left out of the champions league squad. We got away with it two years ago with Nasri being injured, then last year with Toure being on the naughty step, but wouldn't think we would want a different squad list for champions league this season.In the Prem, surely Jesus & Sane don't need to be included in the squad due to their age ?
We can't have a squad for the premier league and one for the CL though, it just causes problems. Kolarov is really the only person who could feasibly be excluded from the CL squad in the way Yaya was when he was a bit-part player.
Not to mention, if we rely on that it's only going to create a massive problem later on when they turn into seniors and suddenly we've got to sell 2 or 3 players who were integral parts of the squad because they qualified as u21's the season before.
I had a movement this morning :)Anything moving today?
Not neccesarily. As you say, Kolarov can fuck off from the CL if needed, right now, then Alves will be going in two years. Yaya will be going, Aguero maybe Fernandinho, Bravo just off the top of my head.
No, they don't but I wouldn't want to be telling them they were in the league squad but being left out of the champions league squad. We got away with it two years ago with Nasri being injured, then last year with Toure being on the naughty step, but wouldn't think we would want a different squad list for champions league this season.
Replace Bravo in CL with EDS keeper, that will make it 17 QED. :-)Let's say we get the dream squad then -
Bravo, Ederson, Alves, Walker, Bertrand, Mendy, Stones, Kolarov, Otamendi, Kompany, New CB, Yaya, fernandinho, Silva, KDB, Gundogan, Silva, Sane, Sterling, Sanchez, Aguero, Jesus.
That's 18 foreign players in CL terms. 16 in PL.
So next August, Yaya retires, Kolarov goes and you need to replace them.
So you have to buy a world class CB and a world class CM, but now one of them has to be club trained. Because we've already got 4 association trained HG players, and our foreign player quota only has 1 slot free now Sané is 21.
Better hope Tosin or Aleix Garcia become very good, very quickly.
Replace Bravo in CL with EDS keeper, that will make it 17 QED. :-)
Let's say we get the dream squad then -
Bravo, Ederson, Alves, Walker, Bertrand, Mendy, Stones, Kolarov, Otamendi, Kompany, New CB, Yaya, fernandinho, Silva, KDB, Gundogan, Silva, Sane, Sterling, Sanchez, Aguero, Jesus.
That's 18 foreign players in CL terms. 16 in PL.
So next August, Yaya retires, Kolarov goes and you need to replace them.
So you have to buy a world class CB and a world class CM, but now one of them has to be club trained. Because we've already got 4 association trained HG players, and our foreign player quota only has 1 slot free now Sané is 21.
Better hope Tosin or Aleix Garcia become very good, very quickly.
It's an option, I 'm not sure it would happen though, I'd prefer to sell Kolarov or maybe Otamendi if Kolarov cant be moved on and bring in a centre back, makes it less complicated.Buy cb drop Kolarov.