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Squad sizes
There's a club in Brazil's Serie D that's gone absolutely bonkers in signing players for the last week or so and now somehow has a squad of 36 players. Even at 7501, I'm only allowed a squad of 33. How is this possible?

I'm pretty sure the rests aren't working as intended either. Two clubs in Serie A have been taken over recently and weren't reset to 23 players. Or has this changed without me realising?

I think as long as you bid on a player before getting to your max squad size, you will can still land the player (it says you can negotiate, but it still logs the number you tried to offer if I remember right).

So in theory you could land a play up to 7 days after hitting you max squad size
1)Bid on player (closes in 5 days)
2) hit max squad size (closes in 4 days)
3) (closes in 3 days)
4) (closes in 2 days)
5) (closes in 1 days)
6) (closes today)
7) Negotiation day 1
Negotiation day 2
9) Player will arrive if successful - 8 days after bidding, 7 days after max squad size.

This is not a good strategy, but it is possible (I lost a $20M+ youth by being over squad max)

With 2 more signings today they now have a squad size of 38.