You need to innovate constantly, work to the future. It's only complete though when it's backed up by results. The second part is often missed on the fb quotes.
When you watch football as a fan, what you pay for is the experience. Football adapted, tried to improve with VAR. It's at a lower level now, in terms of the experience.
The issue some of us have with this isn't just based on some Corinthian code of conduct. It's logic. What you sell, is the experience. If the competition is such that all teams start from a similar level and the best competitor wins, that's the best sell. Now, in reality, some clubs will have structural advantages due to size, fanbase etc, that's still ok. What the likes of City, PSG have done, breaking rules, is a problem to this spectacle. Yet it still was a competition, in Europe
You create a country club with 15 teams out of 20 as permanent members, it's not a competition. You lower the experience, the sell, the potential income.
Now I would wager that in their analysis, the owners of these clubs see a large market for fans who will consistently pay to watch matches between the 'top' clubs. Maybe they're right, I haven't done an exhaustive assessment of this. By my reading of it, over time, fans will lose interest in the experience especially if you keep VAR in its current form.
The beauty of this sort of thing, you can put it to the test, no need for too much talk, we'll see how it goes.
