We didn't actually fill all 25 places in our CL list......we only filled 22 but there is list A and list B. List B is players who have been trained by the club for a period of 18months+ before their 21st birthday or something like that. You can add eligible players to that list up to 24 hours before any group game. It's basically any young players from the academy we need/want to include in a squad.
List A is your main list but 8 spaces are reserved for home grown players. So we filled all 17 places which meant there was no space left for Ibrahim or Kamenar. Of the 8 places for homegrown players, we filled 5; Brown, Mulgrew, Watt, McGeouch and I can only assume Commons counts towards this as well. James Forrest could have also been included on the list but was instead left on the B list along with Chalmers, Fraser and Twardzik. What reason there is to have Watt and McGeouch on the main list but not Forrest, Chalmers or Fraser.....I really don't know!
Not sure about the Barbosa one at all......looked a good player as well! Miku and Lassad seem similar players in that both can play out in wider positions I think but both are happy to come deep and collect the ball as well. I think that's why Lenny likes them because it should allow Hooper to stay up top and make the runs in behind players. It should set us up well if we can get it to work right!
I think Broony realises he has few options but to be up front about it, they are going to be watching him carefully to see how he gets on.
