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Graeme Souness

Graeme Souness has over 50 years' experience in the professional game having played at the top level for the likes of Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool and Rangers during a highly successful playing career. He went on to manage Rangers, Liverpool and Newcastle - to name just a few - before turning his attention to the media where he is known for not being scared of voicing his true opinion.

Coverage: Football Premier League

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GRAEME SOUNESS: No threat, no end-product and no goals... with Jeremy Doku now Man City's go-to player, Jack Grealish needs to have a close look at himself

01/12/23 05:00

GRAEME SOUNESS: Jack Grealish could not have played in any of the teams I did at Liverpool . The way he plays, it would not have been accepted. He takes too many touches and does not see the picture early enough - he slows the team down. Put it this way, I can understand why Pep Guardiola is picking Jeremy Doku ahead of him for Manchester City . Grealish has become very predictable. He takes his full-back down the line before checking inside and playing it square. There is no threat, no end-product. He has not scored in his last 30 appearances for club and country and has only two assists this season, so there you go. He's a forward!...read

GRAEME SOUNESS: Liverpool will empathise with Everton after the Toffees' 10-point deduction for breaching sustainability rules... The city unites very quickly if there's a sense of injustice
24/11/23 06:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: I worked in the city of Liverpool for nine years and know it as a place that unites very quickly when there is a sense of injustice.
GRAEME SOUNESS: England CAN win the Euros - if only Gareth Southgate is bold enough to take off the handbrake and make them feel they have no one to fear
17/11/23 06:01
GRAEME SOUNESS: Southgate has done a good job in seven years, but he could have done better. England could have been the bride at both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups and Euro 2020.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Get off Mikel Arteta's back! I'd have been boiling too. If you think that was a goal you just don't know the game
10/11/23 06:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: I can tell you from my own experience as a manager that the media always want to catch you in your moment of greatest weakness, straight after a match.
GRAEME SOUNESS: Manchester United players are not having Ten Hag's body language, his soft Dutch accent or his ill-fitting suits. He's on a wing and a prayer...
03/11/23 06:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: The dressing room is a ruthless place. Football players are a cynical bunch. I find it hard to believe there will not have been some scepticism of Ten Hag from day one.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: I watched Man United win the 1968 European Cup on a black-and-white TV as a teenager... we only tuned in because Sir Bobby Charlton was playing
27/10/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: For me, he became the greatest ever English player in the process, though Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan at Liverpool always insisted that Tom Finney was the best.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: I told Sir Jim Ratcliffe not to buy a football club. He ignored me and bought one with a mountain to climb in Manchester United
20/10/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: I met Sir Jim Ratcliffe through a friend four years ago when he was interested in buying Chelsea , and I was immediately impressed by one thing.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Israel is a country I have always loved visiting. These atrocities are a stain on humanity
13/10/23 05:53
GRAEME SOUNESS: Israel is a land I've visited at least a dozen times and whose people always extended me warmth when I arrived as an outsider not sharing their faith.
GRAEME SOUNESS: These rock star referees don't know football and there's a howler every week... VAR should make it a doddle but communication between officials is gibberish at times - Klopp knows he won't get a replay but is forging a siege mentality
06/10/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: Where does that all end? Everyone will want the same when they feel aggrieved. It opens the door to a 12-month season.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Liverpool have a new lease of life and it's great to see them on the march again... it sends some message if you can win the title without limitless funds
29/09/23 04:51
GRAEME SOUNESS: I'm sure Jurgen Klopp will have felt that weight of responsibility when results were not going the club's way last season. It will have been a very long summer for him.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: David Raya vs Aaron Ramsdale is great for Arsenal but I'm not having Kai Havertz... why did they pay £65m for a player with 19 Premier League goals in three years at Chelsea?
22/09/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: Arsenal lost their nerve last spring. You can't dress up what happened to their last Premier League campaign any other way. They were in the box seat and they didn't perform.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Jude Bellingham has all the attributes to be one of the greats... and that is a term I use very rarely
15/09/23 05:01
GRAEME SOUNESS: He has the physical attributes and technical ability of Zinedine Zidane, but only time will tell if he reaches those heights. His potential seems limitless.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Make no mistake, Mohamed Salah is flirting with the Saudis with Al-Ittihad prepared to offer £200M for the Egyptian star... and I think he will go this summer!
01/09/23 07:38
GRAEME SOUNESS: I have to say I fear Liverpool will lose Mo Salah to Saudi Arabia. I really think he'll go for it in the six days between now and the Saudi transfer window closing.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Man United have spent huge sums but NOTHING has changed... Bruno Fernandes is nowhere near captain material and Casemiro is a steady Eddie, while Jadon Sancho and Antony are just ORDINARY
25/08/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: We're only two games into the Premier League season but the early signs are that not much has changed at Manchester United.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Chelsea have paid £173m for two rookies in Romeo Lavia and Moises Caicedo and think it guarantees them success. Good luck with that
18/08/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: I can't help but think that when Todd Boehly arrived at Chelsea, all the club's football knowledge walked out the door. He's paid way over the odds by buying players others wanted.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: In Germany they call them Hollywood FC. Bayern Munich move is box office for Harry Kane... PLUS what Declan Rice must improve to be a great player
11/08/23 09:31
GRAEME SOUNESS: Harry Kane should jump at the chance to join Bayern Munich. You don't need to be a nuclear scientist to realise nothing is going to change for him at Spurs in the next five years.
Mason Mount can thrive at Man United, while James Maddison will look to deal with the pressure at Tottenham... Mail Sport's GRAEME SOUNESS picks his top 10 Premier League summer signings
10/08/23 09:30
Liverpool legend and Mail Sport columnist Graeme Souness picks the 10 players he expects to make the greatest impact out of the new Premier League signings.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Trevor Francis and I had an amazing time living on the Italian Riviera... he was a great friend to me and we did everything together
24/07/23 09:31
GRAEME SOUNESS FROM HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY: We lived in Nervi on the Ligurian coast near Portofino in a big villa that had been converted into five apartments.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Keeping the final low-key was the secret for my Liverpool team... If Manchester City do the same against Inter Milan, they'll win the Champions League by half-time
09/06/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: We arrive at the occasion many people will view as the pinnacle of this football season,though we may remember this Champions League final for the dominance of one team.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: I thought long and hard about this but not a SINGLE Man United player would get in City's team... and even Pep Guardiola's SUBSTITUTES would strengthen Erik ten Hag's first XI!
02/06/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: City have better players in every position - from one to 11 and beyond. This will not make me popular in the red half of Manchester, but I have thought long and hard about it.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: My heart breaks for inspirational, brave Isla Grist - that's why I'm swimming the English Channel for her... PLUS why Newcastle boss Eddie Howe is my manager of the year
26/05/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: I have to confess that it's not easy to put the emotion aside when I'm in the company of the young woman I appeared with in a TV studio this week.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Liverpool 7-4 Manchester United... That's the split in my combined XI of the two arch-rivals battling for a place in the Champions League - despite Erik ten Hag's huge £220m spend
19/05/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: Perhaps I could start this week by setting a little exercise - to name the best composite Manchester United and Liverpool team from their performances this season.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: I was shocked to see how bad the Italian sides were in Wednesday's Champions League Milan derby semi-final... this is surely Manchester City's year to be crowned Kings of Europe
12/05/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: It's always a treacherous business predicting who will win any competition because you never know what Lady Luck has in store when it comes to knockout football.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Big Sam's self-belief is fine, but he got the Leeds gig because of Roy Hodgson's success at Palace... while Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is a sore loser and that aggression towards officials is NOT a good look
05/05/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: I have no problem with Sam Allardyce saying he is as good as Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp, even though a lot of the footballing world would disagree.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: I'll miss my Sky Sports role, it lit a fire under me... but my passion for football is undimmed and I'll keep sharing my views in my Mail Sport column - Plus, my three stand-out games of my punditry career
01/05/23 08:28
GRAEME SOUNESS: Football has been very good to me. I played the game for 20 years and crossed over to work for Sky for another 20 years, which has been a fantastic experience.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Manchester City have assembled the best squad British football has ever seen. Now they must dominate in Europe - and only then can they be considered among the greats
28/04/23 04:59
GRAEME SOUNESS: Man City have assembled what, in my opinion, is the best group of players at a football club in the history of our game and their dismantling of Arsenal proved that fact.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Leeds must go back to the spirit of Billy Bremner and Peter Lorimer to get out of Premier League relegation trouble... these are days for pragmatism, common sense and good, old-fashioned Yorkshire grit
21/04/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: Some of that that old Leeds side's dour, aggressive quality would certainly do them no harm - judging by the 6-1 hammering Liverpool inflicted on them
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Liverpool's Andy Robertson has a helluva lot to say for himself... you NEVER lay your hand on an official! And why the Reds shouldn't blow all their budget on Jude Bellingham
14/04/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: Like everything else in football today, the moment when Liverpool's Robertson approached the linesman at Anfield last Sunday has been analysed in microscopic detai.
GRAEME SOUNESS: Seeing England's captain embarrass himself by cheating reminds us we've lost what made our game so special - Harry Kane is a very fine player but goes down far too readily and exaggerated the incident with Abdoulaye Doucoure
07/04/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: Let's get it right. When you lift your hands in football now, you've a got a real chance of getting sent off. But Harry exaggerated the incident enormously
GRAEME SOUNESS: Tottenham don't have good senior pros who take responsibility, dig others out, risk upsetting the cosy life. Antonio Conte saw that and was right to call it out in his frustrated outburst
31/03/23 05:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: When Antonio Conte sat down with Daniel Levy at the start of the season, a top-four finish would have been the target. Tottenham are currently fourth. So, why are they in turmoil?
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Declan Rice is still not forward-thinking enough and it showed in England's win over Italy... he must constantly challenge himself to get better if he's to be an elite midfielder
24/03/23 06:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: He needs to get on the half-turn more when he receives the ball from his defenders and play it forward more, and not be content with going back to where it came from.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: I admire Roy Hodgson for getting back on the hamster's wheel at Crystal Palace. I couldn't. I'm not built to deal with the modern player and the protected bubble they live in
24/03/23 06:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: Management is like a hamster's wheel. When you are on it, you feel like you want to get off. But when you are off it, then you are desperate to get back on again.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: Pep Guardiola can do as he likes at Man City... but he knows digging out De Bruyne in public is a big risk and the Belgian will not have enjoyed being criticised by his boss
17/03/23 06:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: When I was at Liverpool, you would know if the coaching staff thought you were off your game because they would casually ask you a question or two.
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GRAEME SOUNESS: You wouldn't want to be in the trenches with this Manchester United team... the Red Devils gave up during the 7-0 defeat at Anfield and the behaviour from the players was unacceptable!
10/03/23 06:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: I've been in that tunnel at Anfield enough times to know what United were up against last weekend. I've seen players looking intimated there before a ball's been kicked.
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GRAEME SOUNESS talks to BRYAN ROBSON: I see people with pink and yellow boots and think "I'd just kick them"... but then I remember I sat in the hairdressers for two hours getting a perm in the '80s!
03/03/23 06:45
While the Reds have enjoyed a position of superiority in recent seasons, United come into the game in greater form, having secured their first piece of silverware in six years on Sunday.
GRAEME SOUNESS: As a player, Arteta was the perfect son-in-law. As a manager, he's got his angry head on and it's NOT helping Arsenal's cause... they have looked a very nervy bunch for a whole month
17/02/23 06:00
GRAEME SOUNESS: There's no way of dressing up the gravity of Arsenal's defeat to Manchester City this week. That match was an opportunity for Arsenal to make a big psychological gain.
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EXCLUSIVE: Graeme Souness - Smith simply the best in modern Ibrox era
09/05/11 10:39
When Walter Smith walks away from Ibrox, there will be no fanfares demanded from him. He'll do it in the same modest way he came into the club 25 years ago.
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