#also don't forget that the world cup decides which european countries go to the Olympics

[hardtchill]

if the roster size got bigger it wouldn’t be fair. Teams like England and the US can easily fill those spots with quality players who will be able to do well and may be more experienced. But other teams wouldn’t. They’d be putting players on the roster just to fill the space, even if those players aren’t ready to be playing in a tournament like the WC. Club football is completely different, it’s a different level so isn’t comparable at all.

Yup. The thing is that i think right now in woso having an expanded roster will influence the outcome of the world cup. In the men's game, not so much because most teams have enough players to fill those spots.

If you look at teams like Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, they generally do pretty well in tournaments (or even very well like the Netherlands in 2019 and Sweden in the Olympics) but they don't have very deep benches. They have a pretty good starting 11 but as soon as they have to rely on their bench the quality of the team goes down. The Netherlands managed to get 2nd in the world cup while only using only 14/15 players on their roster because the rest simply wasn't capable of playing at such a high level.

Extending the rosters now would i think greatly impact the results in the world cup simply because countries like the US, France, Spain and England wouldn't have to worry about player management anymore while countries like Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands still would.

There are different ways to prevent injury that don't impact the results of a tournament. For woso at the current stage of development, this is not the right choice.