About bloody time too! The Premier League has finally dropped the ridiculous "weakened" team rule starting from next season. Last season the PL implemented a rule that required you to name a 25 man squad prior to the season in which you would be able to select your team from.
In theory then it would have made sense that you could have selected any player from your squad for any given match. Last season Ian Holloway made 10 changes to his team for the game against Aston Villa still from the 25 man squad. The PL saw this as fielding a "weakened" team and fined Blackpool 25 grand.
This was a strange decision from the PL as at it seemed to have no problem with the players being in the 25 man squad, yet decided to fine Blackpool when Holloway wanted to play them.
Common sense seems to have won through and now managers quite rightly can pick anyone out of their 25 man squad with out fear of retribution.
The rule has not completely vanished however as the PL can still implement a fine for fielding a "youth" team as youth players fall outside of the 25 man squad limit.
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