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The RDBD said:
And now Roman has gone, cannot buy the trophies all the time.
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One thing I begrudgingly admired about Roman was that he had an above average understanding of football and at the very least a good sense of who to delegate decisions to.

His first window was also a bit of a scattergun mess, but he learned very, very quickly. That second summer with his open cheque book was frightening. Drogba, Carvalho, Cech, Ferreira, Robben all arrived in one window and became the spine of Mourinho's title winning team.

I hope the new owners aren't as quick to learn as they seem to have even looser purse strings.
 
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Citizen Kane. said:
One thing I begrudgingly admired about Roman was that he had an above average understanding of football and at the very least a good sense of who to delegate decisions to.

His first window was also a bit of a scattergun mess, but he learned very, very quickly. That second summer with his open cheque book was frightening. Drogba, Carvalho, Cech, Ferreira, Robben all arrived in one window and became the spine of Mourinho's title winning team.

I hope the new owners aren't as quick to learn as they seem to have even looser purse strings.
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He did and he didn't

He did as he opened the chequebook to buy the ubermensch the spine of his (and the next 3-4 coaches...) team no matter the cost
He didn't as, within a year or so of doing this, he then huffed and puffed about wanting superstars at his club and signed off on Shevchenko and Ballack regardless of what his manager thought or wanted
 
Would be nice if the Leicester fans who were visiting this board so often seven years ago could pop over and fill us in on how things have got so FUBAR this season, because it honestly doesn't make sense that Leicester are underperforming so catastrophically
 
PowerSpurs said:
Presumably because the ref didn't give it....someone explain to me again why the outcome of the VAR review depends on what the onfield ref decided. Surely the objective should be to get consistency in decisions.
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Our officials don't believe so. They want consistency in the decision-making process.
Ref gives it? Don't overrule unless it's 1000% wrong.
Ref doesn't give it? The same.

They don't actually apply it like this, but that's another matter.
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
Our officials don't believe so. They want consistency in the decision-making process.
Ref gives it? Don't overrule unless it's 1000% wrong.
Ref doesn't give it? The same.

They don't actually apply it like this, but that's another matter.
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So they admit that the rules are so ambiguous that it's down to personal preference what constitutes a foul?
 
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PowerSpurs said:
So they admit that the rules are so ambiguous that it's down to personal preference what constitutes a foul?
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They claim that VAR is just for "clear and obvious errors", then decide what that means.
It's intentionally ambiguous, so that they can do whatever they want, basically.
 
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