Understrength Teams and Substitutes
There is never a reason why a team should be unable to field a full side for a match, as each club has at least eight APP’s and one SBY that they can discover every season. However, on rare occasions, you may find that suspensions and injuries prevent you from playing with a full side. If this happens, then the computer will automatically find from non-league clubs the players that you will be forced to `loan’ for that specific match or matches. These players will not stay with your squad at the end of the session, will be between levels 1 and 3 performance levels, and will cost your club around 120K each, double for sweepers and keepers.
You should always nominate a substitute for each game so that if a player becomes unavailable for a game (due to injuries or suspensions gained in Cross-League Matches, Representative Matches, International matches, or your own mistakes!) then he will be replaced by your chosen substitute. For those clubs that do not select a substitute and end up with less than eleven men selected for the game, non-league player loans will be taken to fill in the vacant slots in your side.
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