Inflation for players has gone up massively in the last 25 years.I am a firm believer in spend your money on your best starting 11. Spend the scraps that's left on back ups or use U21's
Our entire 40 player squad only cost us 3m and got us in the Premiere League in 2011 and 2m of that was spent on just 3 players and over 20 players never got on the pitch
Swansea Squad 2010/11
These days a healthy club should be supplementing the squad with players brought through from their youth ranks, if you are not doing that then a huge potential revenue stream goes down the drain.