Quote Originally Posted by seanmeg View Post
BTW, I found that many managers do not use all roster space. They only maintain limited number of players sufficient for their normal squad rotation. In fact, the unused roster place can used to occupy true reserve players who are used in bad injury situations.
The reason for this in the higher levels is that Quality seems to win over Quantity, we would rather have a 17 man 6-7*squad with overall Quality of 218.7 than a 22 man squad mixed of 5-6-7* with an overall Quality of 215, it is too costly to maintain a full 22man squad[/QUOTE]

It is better to have 5* reserve than to be without it at all. I've had for few seasons 6-7* team and I know how hard it is when such player is useless in any way; mine case was bad form of some high quallity players which forced me to use 5* reserves in 1st squad.