He definitely doesn't watch any games from outside the Premier league. When you listen to him talk about other leagues, he's incredibly dismissive. He mentioned how the new Brighton manager had never managed in "our game" and seems to question almost every foreign player who comes in without PL experience.
It’s the fact that he has no idea how brilliant he was as a player that completely invalidates his opinions.
Pogba did still win a world cup. I don't think Souness has ever really accepted that.
Sounds a lot like Roy Keane.
basically like pretty much all Liverpool fans then
He's stale.
France won the World Cup, football is a team game.
It's rare to see a 5'9 centreback anywhere, it's not something that every other country has other than the UK, which by the way, Martinez is not even our first centre back to be under 6'0. We had one player in the 80s, and even Nobby Stiles played there (when it was still the old full back position).
Oh definitely. Maybe with a bit of Carrick’s tempo control thrown in.
If you read what I’ve wrote you’ll notice that I wrote that in my opinion he is wrong about Martinez because he has been brilliant for us, except game against Brentford. One of best PL signings this year. When it comes to Casimero I understand what he means.
*the only.
Keane was an absolute master of controlling the tempo of games. It was his biggest strength. Unless you mean Souness was nowhere near as good as Keane in this regard and closer to Carrick?
No not at all. He wasn't quite such a box-to-box player as Keane. Carrick was probably a bad analogy; maybe Xabi Alonso with Keane's aggression would have been better.
It’s a different game today from 15 years ago never mind Souness era. This man chastises midfielders for not running ahead of the ball and making runs behind as if that isn’t the single, most stupid thing to do in the modern game.
He's wrong about everything concerning us. His opinion on things related to Utd is worthless, and him having been a good player decades ago doesn't change that.
And Pogba was their best player.
How is he xenophobic? People keep accusing him of this, yet there is no evidence. There's more evidence of Souness being the opposite, like when he threatened opposition players in his playing days being racist to his teammates.
. He's not a Scouser.
We call all former Liverpool players regardless of origin, scousers.
Most United fans say it, actually. It's short hand.
Ay, ay, calm down now, calm down...
Anyone who has played for Liverpool is a Scouse Bastard, not necessarily a Scouser.
Now I can agree with that.
Oh I don’t disagree.
He chose Maguire over Martinez for his team of the week, last I checked, Maguire was a United player. And I am sorry, if you watched that game, and claim Maguire played better than Martinez there is no other explaination... or he didn't watch the game, just randomly picked Maguire, but that still suggests a preference of English over non English.
He does seem to have a tendency to favour British managers and sometimes players, and voted for Brexit (for what it’s worth).
It's your trademark English bias. Every English pundit is like that. They hype English players, praise them like they're the second coming of jesus but when they're absolute shit they completely ignore any sort of criticism towards them. Wish they'd go as hard on them as they go with the praise when they play well.
Because the team allowed him to be.
And because he allowed himself to be?
What does that mean???
I'm just trying to re-address the balance. Reading this forum you'd think the guy was a Jonjo Shelvey level player and Zouma'd his cat!
The guy was a skilful player but he needed really good players around him in midfield to do his defending for him otherwise he was not really effective.
Yeah, he was at the club during a pretty poor time. In another life, under a proper coach, who knows what could have been. It's all ifs and buts. I think he could have been seen very differently, though he isn't blameless at all.
Proper coach?
He is not wrong about everything concerning us. You might not like his opinion. But he got good points. Not always. But often.
