Yes.

The entire premise “if only the on field decisions were more correct then people would enjoy football more” is completely flawed.

Maybe, at best, people would complain less, but it doesn’t mean they will watch more or importantly spend more money attending or watching on TV.

Additionally, what has been completely highlighted is there is a huge amount of referring decisions that nobody can agree on what the right answer is.

I gave up on the NFL because of how awful replay made it to watch. It became a game within the game. It became a competition ABOUT the rules instead of under the rules.

There are highlights floating around today of a hockey ref sending everyone on the ice to a 10 minute penalty. Lol imagine what a mess this is gonna be.

Tottenham always seem to do it backwards. Lo Celso out injured for 6 months and his first game back is with Argentina. Or Bentancur literally just did that. His first start after a long injury was against Argentina.

Here’s the fundamental flaw with VAR. even when things are studied in super zoom and super slow motion people still can’t come to a consensus on the right call. There’s no fixing that. What one person considers reckless or dangerous, another person may not. Even in binary situations like out of bounds or offside there are plenty of examples of situations where we can’t definitively know.

The thing var is based on, “correct” calls, just doesn’t exist.

Sure, there are a handful of times, wrong players getting red cards, missed ear bitings etc that VAR maybe could fix. But a vast majority var just makes worse.

Var has got to go. I don’t watch football because they precisely apply unambiguous rules. That’s chess or darts or snooker.

Basically none of us saw it coming. We all thought of him as the discount Raya. It’s been an enormous surprise.

Royal is useful. He’s played all across the back line. Not many players can do that with a passing level of competency. Davies is also useful but maybe less so with Royal around. These players will probably get to stick around because of their utility.

Dier is a direct replacement for one player and neither young, English, or good enough to justify a spot.

Hojbjerg is a tough one. As a substitute later in a match then sure, he’s fine. But as a backup to a starter, he’s not. Maybe when Bentancur and GLC are back fit then it’s different, but right now, he’s in the same category as Dier.

Forster is at least English, but damn we need a better backup and/or a young keeper for the future.

This summer is going to be busy with so many players on their last year that Ange seemingly doesn’t rate

I think people are reasonably desperate to see something other than City just doing City things.