Okay, so let me hypothetically ask you a question then - where do all the other teams come from for the B3 tournament if you don’t allow the cup winners to compete in that competition? Yes if you win the FA cup, you get Europa League but we don’t have multiple formats of European tournaments apart from BBM and B3 so the latter is the obvious choice.
You are from England. Have you ever seen a club play completely with the reserve team in the Premier league to save the best players for the fa cup? Maybe 7 days before the final in the last league game of the season if they don't fight for anything in the league and that's it
No I haven’t but again, you’re not comparing it properly. West Ham did actually rest multiple players away to Brentford before the semi final of the Europa Conference League - no Rice, Paqueta, Bowen, Zouma etc. They did the same for the last league game before the final.
Why did they rest them? Because winning the major trophy was more important to them than league position, exactly like it is with some managers on this game.
Look at premier league teams over the Christmas schedule, they have to rotate players because of fitness and burning them out with too many minutes.
As I stated in my previous message, the cup format is not perfect and yes it’s annoying to waste enthusiasm on a Saturday to a team who has put out a team of scrubs, but it’s one of the features that makes this
management game great.
Last edited by js8 at 6/27/2023 5:38:26 PM