How are you going to have 33 players in the squad and the minimum that they do not play are getting angry? You can not have Neuer, Buffon and De Gea for a position
i think he meant 22 players. Normally for a position, A : i will have a 25-30 age fully developed first team player, and B : a developing 21-25 age players for rotation. Then C : a 18-21 back up youngster to develop by subing them out. When the time goes by, then the B will become the new A, and you could sell your ex - A, and then the C will become your new B.
Guys, probably I should explain what I meant a bit clearly.
You really don't need to have a 33 players team to achieve situation when you have 3-4 players cover for every position.
I usually have a pretty small team that consists of 22 players with only 2 GKs.
When I said that you should at least 3 similar quality players for every position I didn’t mean that you should have exactly 3 different players for every position and when I said that I mean this:
Let’s take WBR position, I usually have 2 players that are main players for this position
For WBL position, I also usually have 2 players that are main players for this positions
All my players for WBR position learn to play at WBL position and vice versa all my players for WBL position learn to play WBR position.
So you have 4 players that can play WBL position and 4 players that can play WBR position.
Also, players for MCL/MCR positions should have similar attributes with players for WBL/WBR positions so it’s posible to train someone of your players for MCL/MCR position to play WBL/WBR positions.
The similar action should be done to increase squad depth for Central Defenders position and any other position in the tactic, for example, you inspect all your players for MCR/MCL/WBL/WBR position and pick such players that have the most suitable attributes to play Central Defender positions and train them to play there.
So every position in the tactic should be covered by 3-4 players and to achieve that you should not have 33 players, it easily can be done with a small team that consists of 22 players.
Well, for small teams, that way to do a squad isn't allways possible, in my opinion
Mate, I used improper word "equal" but I should used "similar quality" instead.
The main idea is not to have a big gap in quality between your "A" selection and "B" selection and you can achieve that with a small club and a big club it doesn't matter.