Graeme Souness on LFC, United's troubles and modern management | Keith Andrews

Graeme Souness was in brilliant form on The Keith Andrews Show, talking about Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal and much more.
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[@aintmyshit]

Enjoy listening to Souness...very straight forward points of view....

[@perryod]

Really nice interview, chilled, intelligent, friendly. Well done. Never seen GS so chilled, a totally different character. (PS: I think the facial hair looks good too, really suits him.)

[@brendanmaye194]

First time listener- Irish man living in France.. I thoroughly enjoyed this- never thought Keith was so good.. and Graeme says as he thinks.. Loved it... more of this please!! YNWA! (obviously a Red fan..BJM

[@alexf8314]

YNWA

[@stmb214]

Fantastic interview 👏 .. United fan here, have nothing but respect for Souness. Great man.

[@leenkeshramlagun7171]

You put it wrong. He is a top lad. Harry " king of the jungle" stylez

[@Sheepwillbesheep]

Souness is a class act. Great interview

[@paulie-g]

Fantastic interview - Souness is at ease and speaking his mind, which is when he's at his best. First time I see this interviewer, but he does a brilliant job here - says just enough to street the conversation and no more. Sound professionalism that.

[@bellcstu]

Straight shooter...proper player and manager...imagine this fella playing now...jeezo 😳🔴⚪️🔵

[@britbox4517]

Always enjoy listening to Souness' take on things. One of the best 3 players to ever wear a Liverpool shirt IMO.

[@secretsquirrel4137]

I’ve never seen Souness looked so relaxed since he had Hansen and Lawrenson at his back - fair play mate - so lovely to be in a place where you feel comfortable enough to say what you think and be yourself - massive respect!!!!!

[@greglyons2526]

Great interview

[@robertohalloran9590]

Great interview njoyed the whole lot of it YNWA

[@stannats2637]

Great listen.. nice, easy and relaxed

[@alexf8314]

Yes. Loved it. It's quite annoying watching these types of football discussion clips where they're obviously talking unnaturally loud and on top of that they play sound effects and music in the background during the show. This on the other hand was fantastic.

[@mikedbconnect]

Graeme Souness, you are a legend Sir. You are one of the best pundits. You are old school and you are acutely aware of it. Don't be bashful about it. Be proud. Please speak more about responsibility and the culture of winning. You were the best midfielder at LFC during their most dominant period. A great champion. You know what it takes to win. For years you were surrounded by others like you, so it all just makes sense. To you it is obvious. Most people need that drummed into them over and over. It is only boring if you don't want to understand how to win. There is a serious lack of leadership in modern pro sports. Too many false pressures (media, stats, money, agents etc) cloud what is truly important - which is, or should be, winning as a team. Take a look at the squads being built at Man City and Liverpool -- Sure, lots of money spent on some talented players, but the personalities we see all contribute to a long term culture of success. Pep and Klopp love responsible pros - Hendo, Milner, Wijnaldum and others - Not always the most technically gifted, but they stay fit and drive everyone to push harder when the going gets tough. It all starts in the head, victory, defeat, sucess, failure, passion, indifference. It must happen in the head before it can happen anywhere else. In team sport, you all need to be of one superior mindset if you want to be the best team. Some people call that arrogance. It is merely supreme confidence. Liverpool of the 70's and 80's .... Milan with Baresi and Maldini ...... Utd under Fergie ....... Madrid ....... Barcelona ..... Bayern ...... Michael Jordan .... Viv Richards etc etc. Winning is a mentality. Talent helps. We need more experts and critics speaking more loudly about responsibility and the culture of winning.

[@FTMJarra]

one of my heroes growing up...giant of a player, good manager too.

[@djts2001]

Great interview also like when Graeme talks about his time as a player...not boring

[@teddy1066]

Thoughtful and humble. No wonder Souness commanded so much respect.

[@theclipperking]

Absolute legend !!!

[@jamessullivan9125]

Utd fan here but love souness

[@johnbell2639]

Roy Keane and Souey are the best 2 pundits because they say it as it is

[@billkeane528]

bob paisley is the best manager to ever grace the game and never boasted a class act

[@ryanybaz2230]

bill keane Alex Ferguson didn’t exist so I’m guessing

[@andywalker9079]

Excellent

[@MathewSimon119]

Love hearing Souness

[@suffern63]

Excellent,he does slightly contradict himself when he says they were told to work it out themselves but also says that they would be told off for not playing attacking passes.

[@SunOfTheSun]

You can still work that out and if you're a great player like he was it's not hard

[@suffern63]

@@SunOfTheSun Yes,but it was still coaching,so clearly the players didn't have to work everything out by themselves.Obviously if you are a player like Souness was,you will work things out more quickly.

[@bmw-e30]

Souness is probably the best pundit on Tv.

[@KingBobIsHere]

Do you have an empty beer can for a brain?

[@SunOfTheSun]

@@KingBobIsHere you apparently do. The man is a GREAT

[@KingBobIsHere]

J C you can call him great, sure, but the best pundit on TV? Get your head checked. It’s Henry, G.Neville, Lineker, in that order. Graeme Souropinoionsaboutunited MIGHT make the top 10

[@nev123123123]

Sounness comes across as tough but nice guy.

[@leenkeshramlagun7171]

As a Utd fan I usually find myself agreeing a lot with Graeme. Guy knows his peanuts from his almonds or maybe his nectarines from his clems.

[@gm2407]

David Silva, Kevin De Bruyne and Graeme Souness would be a midfield three that woul be difficult to get the ball off.

[@murphymoe753]

how can we pay a trainer cash to leave after he never did his job I know you are breaking a contract but if it was done well... he never did anything positive at OT The breaking of the team was the Sanchez deal

[@hjyigo4759]

Who was laughing at Ronnie Whelan in 1991?

[@peterbryan1380]

no fear this guy

[@murallivengadasalamthevar1784]

Souness = Tom Selleck👍

[@asidhow4859]

Soness is an amusing Scottish hyena

[@cityslacker6221]

Graeme is great bloke, but he shows the exact same problem as Jose. The sport has left him behind. football systems and tactics are more complex now than "go figure it out", or "you're good, now get on". the margins for errors are so much smaller than the days Graeme played or coached. GS knows that he is seeing something special at City or LFC, but he still can't seem to wrap his mind around the fact that the game is played at a faster speed all around and sitting back and trying to bully your opponents with old right proper "English" football is a joke. Just look at Beckham's generation of the national team. They got worked because Spain, France and Brasil were playing modern football against English nostalgia.

[@botany500kojak]

England were managed by foreigners at that time. Liverpool and Forest when they were successful in Europe in the 70s and 80s were never 'old right proper "English" football'. Sitting back sounds more like the Italian way rather than the usual gung-ho English stereotype of football.

[@cityslacker6221]

Botany 500 , Hi Botany, that post is almost two years old. Now that LFC has run the league, Grahame has learned a bit about modern football. I did not mean to infer that the classic English style was to sit back in general, we all know that is not true; but it has to do with the back line and wingbacks and even defensive middies who are now required by many coaches to play fast paced explosive build up play. Yes, there is always a place for muscle, but look how much Harry Maguire has NOT stood out compared to the likes of Van Dijk or Laporte. He barely even has the confidence to "bully" defenders the way Grahame prefers. As for the forward english style I was also referring, Grahame has barely come around. The hoof it forward and let your 6 foot 2 striker bully goals is also out of style, because that Striker is now asked to counter press harder if they lose the ball and to move more off the ball to be in position to help keep possession. I like to give Grahame stick, but he isn't all that bad. He is no Merson that's for sure.

[@chestersykes5124]

Wish GS would act this way on Sky. As a player - an LFC great, but he is dour pundit tbh. As LFC manager he banned player's post-game fish n' chips and the players hated it and stopped playing for him. Glad Klopp brought the LFC tradition back - top of PL.

[@nickforde9858]

That wasn't why they stopped playing for him. Forget the fish and chips. He got rid of the boot room, got rid of players like Whelan, Beardsley, Houghton etc and replaced them with inferior players. Ian Rush for instance was peeved as he bought in the likes of Dean Saunders who earnt far more than Rush who had done everything for the club.

[@paulie-g]

He had nowt to do with the boot room going.

[@nickforde9858]

@@paulie-g He had nowt to do with the Boot room going you say? Souness was asked by Peter Robinson if the boot room could be sacrificed in order to extend the media interview room behind it. The manager made no objections.

[@chestersykes5124]

@@nickforde9858 Banning the chip shop was completely unecessary - he alienated himself. How ironic he later had a heart attack.