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I was bemused to catch a comment at the weekend that Arsene Wenger has used 32 different players this season. Makes you wonder about all that blather regarding 25 max in the squad, eight who have to be homegrown etc... is anyone checking?

More to the point, though, what about the club that is widely acknowledged to have the smallest squad in the Premier League...??? Yes, Everton?

How does it compare with Wenger's 32? How many players has David Moyes used this season?

Paul Hardcastle, Wirral Posted 05/03/2012 at 17:18:41

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Colin Ryan
546 Posted 05/03/2012 at 21:04:36

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Moyes has used 30 players this season in the league. 4 of those haven't started a game... Jelavic, Baxter, McFadden and McAleny and 4 of those 30 have since left...Beckford, Arteta, Bily and Saha.

Adam Carey
561 Posted 05/03/2012 at 21:36:55

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Paul, I'm sure that homegrown players under the age of 20/21 don't need to be registered as part of the 25. Isn't it partly to stop the likes of Man City and Chelsea having huge squads full of foreign internationals?

Noel Lynam
595 Posted 06/03/2012 at 00:42:28

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No disrespect Paul, but everything you ask there is readily available via a quick online search, without someone having to spoon feed you the answers.

Michael Kenrick
607 Posted 06/03/2012 at 05:35:41

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Do enlighten us, Noel.

I count 32 players who have participated this season. Hardly the smallest squad in the Prem, is it? But I can't find any online source to confirm that.

Noel Lynam
619 Posted 06/03/2012 at 08:03:47

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Michael,

His questions were:

"More to the point, though, what about the club that is widely acknowledged to have the smallest squad in the Premier League...??? Yes, Everton?

How does it compare with Wenger's 32? How many players has David Moyes used this season?"

Evertonfc.com, Wikipedia, any match programme and your own site show what players were used in what games. Assuming he can count, then it's not difficult to compare with Arsenal's 32.

If you are asking whether our squad is the smallest, then that's another (different) question to what he asked.

Phil McKeown
621 Posted 06/03/2012 at 08:23:45

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Jesus Noel

Phil McKeown
622 Posted 06/03/2012 at 08:23:45

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Make sure you do your research lads or feel the wrath of the lynamator

Craig Walker
901 Posted 07/03/2012 at 13:13:07

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Paul, I think we've used 19. N-n-n-n-n 19. Sorry. Couldn't resist!

Shaun Brennan
201 Posted 09/03/2012 at 02:59:11

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How's that 5,000-piece jigsaw coming along, Noel? ;-)

John Hall
283 Posted 09/03/2012 at 13:09:01

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Shaun, the answer to Noel's jigsaw exertions can easily be found on-line and on his own indivdual webcam site ? called 'boring jigsaw playing bastard.com'

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