PL confirm 7 subs starting next season

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Thoughts?

Good for top teams, bad for lower teams? Good for youth?

I guess it means John O'Shea will go down as a one save wonder :(
 
There was the reasoning that since more players can be named and thus have the chance of getting on, that the top clubs will be less likely to loan fringe players or youngsters to the smaller clubs.
 
Seems like a good idea to me.

Even the teams at the lower end of the table will have one or two fringe players that are boardering on getting into the squad.

Sir Alex has been pushing this for a long time.
 
I remember this being discussed last year some time, I'm not really a big fan of the idea since it just makes life easy for managers in terms of selecting a bench. Having 7 subs lets you select (depending on availability, obviously), say:

Keeper
Centreback
Striker
Winger
Holding midfielder
Fullback or utility defender
Creative midfielder / different sort of forward

With only 5 subs your options are a bit more limited and you have to be a bit more cautious. e.g. say you have 4 quality midfielders/forwards who can't get in the team, with only 5 subs you can't really risk putting them all on the bench plus a keeper, because then you'd have no defenders.

The only positive I can see really is that this brings things in line with european/international matches.
 
Bear in mind that if 7subs is brought in for the Premiership, it will only be a matter of time before pressure is applied to try and get it in cup matches as well - which could involve lower division clubs.
 
I don't see this as a problem.

The teams have been used to naming 16 players week in, week out... whether the squad is in injury crisis or not.

It's a fabulous idea really, you can name fringe players and young starlets and it'll give a boost to those players.

As far as an injury crisis goes.

Whats the difference between naming:
a) 5 subs - 4 decent players and 1 fringe/youth player
and
b) 7 sub - 4 decent players and 3 fringe/youth players

You can still only use 3 of them anyway... in which case make sure your subs are from the 4 decent palyers :)
 
Woo!!

Means no more of "you have selected two substitutes outside of the match squad" on footy manager when alternating between league and europe. Couldn't be happier!
 
So they can make 7 substitutions, or can have 7 subs on the bench but still only bring 3 on?
 
Whats the point? It's not going to mean any youngsters etc get more games as they'll still want to bring on the ones they would have named in the 5.
 
i started a thread on this last year, at the time the response was largely negative but i'm still generally in favour of the idea.
 
No problem with this whatsoever, hopefully this move may see the end of the utility player.

The only thing that could have been done better would have been to put in a rule that at least 2 of the subs were home grown players (as somebody mentioned in the previous thread on this).
Stretch said:
So they can make 7 substitutions, or can have 7 subs on the bench but still only bring 3 on?
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You can still only make 3 subs but can now select those from 7 players rather than 5.
 
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