18 Apr 2020 09:14:30
ed001 what was your thoughts on steve Staunton, I thought it was a really bad move by Souness selling him. In my eyes the best leftback we have had in my time as fan beautiful left foot. alan kennedy I was abit to young to compare.

{Ed001's Note - Souness himself always said his biggest mistake was selling Stan, so clearly you are not the only one to think so. Different era, he lacked the pace they need now, but for the way the game was then he was magnificent. Absolutely brilliant. Then he came back as a shadow of the player he was.}

1.) 18 Apr 2020
18 Apr 2020 10:07:04
he might have lacked a bit of pace ed but am sure with todays training his fitness and pace would have improved, and on todays pitches his left foot would have been even better. did he not play upfront for one game and he get a hattrick. And was Villas best player that year they come close to winning the title. yeah I thought letting him and Beardsley go was very poor to replace them with players nowhere near at that level.

{Ed001's Note - Souness really struggled to understand the level when he came back down south. He bought thuggery rather than quality and it just never worked.}

2.) 18 Apr 2020
18 Apr 2020 10:18:21
yeah there was a few of are players that left us and was still playing for other teams and was the stand out player a lot of the time Steve McMahon was another at city. Souness came in like a bull in a china shop. I do think that is why we did so good for so long because the new managers we had before Souness did have some loyalty to players and did not need to break the team up so fast.

3.) 18 Apr 2020
18 Apr 2020 10:47:15
Souness didn’t work he came in too fast to hard but In theory his mindset was right just not planned long term
The squad needed shaking up youth needed bringing through but not at the expense of the old guard so soon
Mirror this with Roy Evans who stayed too loyal to some players and was too soft with others
If you combine the two you might have got the right manager at the time Liverpool needed.

4.) 18 Apr 2020
18 Apr 2020 12:41:40
I agree Johncrow. For me Souness came down from Scotland with his "success" in a mikey mouse league and thought he would do the same at Liverpool, getting rid of quality players with plenty of mileage left and in the meantime buying some really bad and certainly not Liverpool standard players. For me it was his tenure that changed Liverpools fortunes and we never got back to the team we were. Great player but he damaged Liverpool no end.

5.) 18 Apr 2020
18 Apr 2020 13:28:07
Just to put a bit of context to my post.

Liverpool lost the league in 90/ 91 by 7 points (maybe 8?), but were level with Arsenal when Kenny resigned. Arsenal won the league losing 1 game, Liverpool 2nd, 7 points ahead of third spot. The point being if Kenny had stayed we would certainly been a lot closer to Arsenal at the very least and been further away from the 3rd placd team.
The point being that we clearly still had a very good team, even with some questionable signings (David Speedie etc), but it didn't warrant Souness coming in and ripping the heart out of the team, when they were head and shoulders above all the teams bar one. A little tinkering yes and maintain the already was a very good system and method. What Souness did was unforgivable.

6.) 18 Apr 2020
18 Apr 2020 13:42:19
I thought Souness was one of our worst managers, ripped the team apart and replaced players with dross. He lives near me and seems a nice guy, his brother gordon used to be one of my landlords in my previous job, so looked after one of his properties, he on the other hand was a tool!

7.) 18 Apr 2020
18 Apr 2020 13:47:25
In fairness to Souness (who is always a Liverpool legend in my eyes) he has acknowledged his mistakes and regrets them. He tried to modernise the system, which was really the Shankly / Paisley 1960s and 1970s methods, but could not carry the senior pros with him in the way that, say, Wenger, was later able to do at Arsenal. He cited things like stopping the team getting fish and chips on the bus after a game, something that would never happen now.
Having said that, the extreme irony is that Alex Ferguson did it the old school Liverpool way, just that Utd’s commercial machine clicked into gear and left us way behind.

8.) 18 Apr 2020
18 Apr 2020 19:14:47
Wasnt steve staunton one of the players sacrificed by Souness due to the 3 foreigner rule that had been brought in?

9.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 07:15:21
Souness was a disaster, overall. End of story.