It won’t.

Let’s get real. It can be a real pain the ass when VAR takes forever to make a call, and then makes a decision completely inconsistent with the usual procedures.

But I haven’t met a single person who has stopped watching matches because of VAR, and if it was going to happen, it would have been when it was first introduced.

Pretty much the entire youth/reserves set-up of the Benitez era.

I remember that Liverpool reserve team of 07/08 utterly dominating. Won all but 5 league matches, only losing once, only conceding 8 goals across the whole campaign. The golden boot winner and runner up were both Liverpool forwards (Krisztián Németh and Jordy Brouwer respectively). It was a side tipped for big things, with the next generation looking bright.

Not one of them became a first-team regular. Lucas had a decent career with Liverpool, and a couple of others like Péter Gulácsi and Emiliano Insúa had respectable careers elsewhere. But it was not Liverpool’s answer to the class of 92 that I had hoped.

As woeful as many of them have been, I don’t agree that the players they’ve been signing from other teams are “rejects” at all.

Manchester United have consistently spent big to bring in their first choice transfer targets in recent years. Rarely have their signings been fringe players at their previous clubs. But United have had a remarkable knack for paying hefty fees for players who then can’t make the step up, or worse still, actually end up becoming worse than when they arrived.