Manchester United defender Harry Maguire has suggested that VAR should only be used for offside decisions moving forward.
It emerged on Wednesday that Wolves had tabled a resolution which will see Premier League clubs vote on whether to axe the video assistant referee system, which has been in place since 2019. A decision will be made at their annual general meeting next month.
Wolves said in a statement that it is "time for a constructive and critical debate" over the future of VAR. And Maguire has admitted that he would like to see changes in how the technology is used, namely when it comes to penalties and red cards.
He told The Sun: "I think it is going to divide opinion and a lot of people will want to keep it. Equally, the popular thing at the moment is to say get rid of it. It probably does need to be done better.
"The automated offsides are coming in next season and that will improve it. It will make things quicker. Personally, I would keep VAR but for offsides only. I would scrap it for everything that is opinion based. Offsides are factual and not subjective.
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"It is so difficult to lose a game on an offside goal when a player is two or three yards offside. Everyone makes mistakes, linesmen make mistakes, so that is why I would keep VAR for that. But I would not have it for red cards, or penalties because even now, people disagree if a decision is right or wrong."
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Premier League clubs will decide whether to keep VAR at their annual general meeting next month (Getty Images)When asked whether players want to persevere with VAR, Maguire admitted there was a "split". He added: "Some players want to get rid of it. VAR offsides do kill goal celebrations a bit. In the back of your mind, players think whether or not it is a goal."
The England international doesn't want to see penalties decided by VAR - believing the referee should "make the decision" - and thinks there have been too many "soft" spot kicks awarded this term. Although he accepts strikers may think differently.
Maguire continued: "We want our game to be a contact sport. We want the game to be aggressive. We want people to feel they can go in for hard challenges which are fair and not dangerous."
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