Why is modern football so boring compared to 90s and 00s? Will varball be even worse in the future?

Actually you could not be more more wrong, I'm FC Barcelona fan and enjoy watching best player in football history every week, while you cry about some mediocre players from years ago :)

I think there’s definitely a lack of identity in the modern game. The football world feels a lot smaller now due to the ever growing gap between the super clubs and everyone else. The transformation of Serie A, for example, has been absolutely depressing. Local representation in the top clubs is also diminished. It’s particularly true in England where even as late as ~2010 the top clubs were still defined by local players - Gerrard, Carragher, Giggs, Scholes, Neville, Rooney, Terry, Lampard. The modern player generally couldn’t give a fuck what top team he plays for. Then there’s the ngubu problem, which harbours further disconnect between the supporters and the clubs (and the supporters and their national sides).

the fact that we could have the three highest premier league totals is insane.

man city 2018 - 100 points
man city 2019 - 98 points
liverpool 2019 - 97 points

Based

We need more people like you

Its not, you are just a bitter boomer afraid to embrace new things.

t. 27 years old boomer who enjoys football now as much as in the late 90s/early 00s

this. op is just becoming his dad

refs are the problem

Spot on. Though I disagree with OP about VAR, it's probably the only positive thing that has happened to football in the last decade.
What are some other countries that value technique besides Spain and Netherlands?

>Lack of personalities
>National teams and clubs have no identity anymore thanks to globalisation
>lack of flair in favor of more robotic 'efficient' football
>mega teams hording all the talent

Even compared to 10 years ago football is boring, never mind the 90s. I can count on one hand the amount of games I've watched this season, I just can't be arsed anymore.

I agree with this and I'm close to 40
Also most of you were toddlers when memedane was playing, it feels so weird that my favorite player growing up is revered by all these kids who never really saw him play and mostly overrate him due to one world cup

Eh. 30-40 years ago. The whole team would probably be comprised of local academy grown players who played at one club their whole life, that transistioned to foreign players in academies and role players became expendable by the clubs itself.

Now, star players are expendable. Soon, managers, presidents, etc will become interchangable.

The only things that will stay constant for 3-5 years will probably be the owners, and that’s it. So, a supporter in the 70s would find the 90s situation unrecognizable and so on.

This kind of shit happens regularly in Multi national companies, now it’s just seeped into football because of insnae competition. In this context, American companies are woefully behind. Y’all will find your “culture” over there.

The Falklands

> Will varball be even worse in the future?
Yup. VAR is the death of football. Zoomers will turn this sport into irl FIFA

Extremely redpilled thread.

Because Fifa.

>Ajax is a charming side atm because they actually decided to give talented Dutch (genuinely Dutch that is)
Too bad that’s over. Was watching some games from the future cup (which Ajax is hosting) and 19/20 players are just ngubus (including Ajax)

Sounds racist, in fact most of this thread is pretty racist and it's very sad

Soccer is trash. Time to move on to real sports like anglos did 150 years ago.

It's the commercial aspect of the game that's evolved and killed the game.

Sky running hour long post build up, 2 hour long post-match analysis, tourists instead of locals at every game who just want to shop at the club shop.

Of course players are overpaid and thus have zero drive, but the radicalization of covering EVERYTHING and the money that funded into the game that's killed it.

>"Sounds racist"
It's not racist, it's fucking true. What's the point of calling yourselves Europeans when the majority of your national team Africans?
Also black players all have a similar mentality and are fucking boring.

>Say no to racism
>*rejects calls from his country of origin and plays for a rich european team*

Absolute shootout of a game going on in the PL right now, get your head checked

You might consider it racist but I don’t think this thread is very hateful. Just people explaining the realities of the situation.

They are all pace kiddies nowadays.

A player like Riquelme would be impossible this day and it's sad.

multiball

IMO it's just diferent.
There's a lot more team work nowadays. Coaching is at its peak.
I enjoy both periods and I'm pretty old, almost 40yo.

Whats really ruining football is the amount of money some clubs have, and with it they get all the best players, so domestic competition is almost gone now.
I would 100% support the end of the bosman law and other crap like that. Maybe then we could have diferent CL each year.

Shitskin zoomer pls go

You got older

Wow how racist of you, I bet you're a nazi too

nigger