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Zidane of all people should know that the "galactico" style squad doesn't work as well as expected even with players in their prime, so trying that with players in their twilight years is insanity.

Its not VAR that's the problem. Its the useless blind referees that don't know how to use VAR properly. Replace those referees with more competent ones and VAR will shine.

Personally as it stands, I prefer VAR over no VAR, but with some tweaks to the VAR usage rules and regulations, of course. But even without that, its still an improvement over the no VAR era. There's always going to be people moaning about anything. Its human nature. We wanted...

Oh no! Now Southampton are going to win the league by miles, all because of VAR. Such a lucky team. Can't stand them and their gloating fanbase. Screw VAR.

Isn't that the whole point of VAR? At least in theory? Its supposed to clarify the normally difficult-to-see incidents, right? Yes, VAR implementation in its current form is far from perfect, but its still statistically more reliable than the non-VAR era in the Premier League. And BTW, that call...

Am I missing something? Weren't the two VAR calls correct?

Putting words in my mouth again, eh? I was replying to a post that said randomness affected xG metrics for City. You didn't bother reading the original post carefully. No surprise there. I was saying that there are external factors affecting the outcome of results, and therefore, relying solely...

You really do love your strawman arguments, don't you? I said "Expected goals don't count for shit in a sport where many many external factors can influence the actual outcome of each game". Why did you think I said that? What was the first post I was replying to? Hmm? It was about randomness...

Put in some more smiley faces instead of answering my question. That really helps your case.

Nice new phrase for "I can't come up with a proper counter-argument so I'll just resort to subtle insults". I didn't say they were wrong. I said they were "flawed". You're analyzing predictive stats in isolation. Tell me. Why does xG data not translate over to real world results a lot of the time?

Expected goals don't count for shit in a sport where many many external factors can influence the actual outcome of each game. Just ask City or United. Source :- Any league table with actual numbers.

xG metrics are incredibly flawed. Using them, United should also be scoring a lot more goals than this. There's a huge difference between predictions made from cherry-picked stats and reality. Fans of the clubs do it to make themselves feel better about their team's poor results. LOL. Whatever...

I actually don't believe in that at all. Neither Klopp nor Pep are magicians who can conjure gold out of thin air. Both are fantastic managers, but they need resources to back them up too, just like any top manager. You can see how much consistently losing his top players to other clubs affected...

To be fair, Pep inherited a team that won the PL 2 seasons previous, and then had the privilege of a £400m+ net spend on top of that. I'm not trying to discredit Pep's achievements at City, but to subtly insinuate that he had the same challenges as Klopp did at Liverpool is totally absurd.

What teams were these? If I'm not mistaken the only so-called "better" team who were actually in for him at the time were Manchester United, and he rejected them. The actual reasons are not clear, but one alleged reason was that the club's higher-ups tried to sell him the idea that United was...

Do they have to be to win the PL? Mourinho's Chelsea and, at times, Ferguson's United won the PL for being resilient even if they don't look THAT impressive. More recently, Leicester City went a similar route to win the PL as well. Liverpool have had "impressive" seasons before where it came to...

Lucky? More like Sheffield were lucky not to lose by 3 or 4 goals. Liverpool forwards were all off-form. Mane and Salah both missed sitters that they'd have easily converted on any other day. Liverpool didn't put out the kind of performance that they are capable of. Not even close. They played...

He's most likely trying to suck up to Munich fans, but he could've avoided taking subtle digs at his previous teams in doing so. He was a big uncertainty at Inter. He got very little game time. Liverpool bought him and gave him game time in abundance. Majority of the fans adored him from the...

What's that got to do with anything? The Sokratis claim was from before the game, not afterwards. He was most definitely talking from past encounters. Why would he be talking about a game yet to be played as if he had already played it? That makes no sense. And if your defenders have to...

You're right. That totally changes everything. :rolleyes: Seriously though, if you concede 19 goals in 6 consecutive matches against any team, it is abundantly clear that you have a big trouble defending against that team. An average of more than 3 goals conceded per game is definitely not...