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All the more reason to get better squad depth. This will probably be beneficial to CIty the most.
Carragher knows full well that this will hurt Liverpool with their lack of depth in comparison to City.
I mean we're fecked when 5 of our key players get injured again, but I also can't be fecked with back to back PL wins for that lot.
Better than finishing
Will it? Liverpool rely more on a system than individual players. If anything, this benefits Liverpool and other teams who have a clear philosophy of playing and do not depend on individual star performers.
What rule?
That you can only sub in players 3 times during the game even if you have 5 substitutions. That's why we couldn't sub him and had to play with 10 men on the pitch.
How does it? People keep saying this but I don't think anyone has thought it through properly
Better squad depth, so more chances to impact the game by bringing in 50% new team.
But it doesn't though does it?
They don't train together for years, clubs do. That's the difference.
Look at us the other night. Can you honestly say making three subs at once improved the way we played? It's a bad idea to make wholesale changes, and also no one's signing for a big club to be the 5th substitute so no one should really worry about big clubs having an amazing 5 players sat on the bench waiting to come on at any given moment.
Well our squad depth is poor. Teams with better squad depth have option to bring in 5 new players when teams like Burnley and other struggle to field the same without significant drop in their quality.
It's not that bad though, McTomminay and Fred were doing great together before the COVID break, they're not world beaters but they aren't bad players either. Well teams like Burnley need to have a word with themselves regarding their academy, so do these other provincial clubs. They can't keep building squads off the back of United's reserve cast off's. Perhaps this will see teams look to invest in bringing through some of their own local talents to fill that void.
Yeah sure, they should be told of for not having money to fill squad with PL level players.
How the hell do you do it!
Has anyone else been "screwed over" by this "ridiculous rule"? Maybe the ridiculous thing is needlessly exposing yourself to it.
The 3 subs rule didn't have a stupid restriction as to when you're allowed to make them though
But everyone knows what the restriction is, stupid or not. You can choose (99% of time) to never leave yourself vulnerable to it, the same as you can choose to never make your third sub in regular rules but that's not optimal and that means sometimes you'll get unlucky but it is no different than crying about being forced down to 10 men in regular 3 sub rules when a player gets injured and you've made all your subs, you can't being a player on, it's outside the rules.
I get the point that you're making and I've not fully decided either way, myself. But, 5 subs per team done separately means potentially 10 stoppages per game just for changing personnel. That's a lot of stop-starting, which I'm keen to see the back of.
