Excellent if we sign him and a waste of space if we don't. I've never seen him play.

He’s no Pogba....

comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 34 seconds ago
He’s no Pogba....
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Yeah, he actually gave a fack.

First of all, you can't really liken him to midfielders of today who have specific roles. He was an alrounder, excellent in both attack and defence and could have played either role and been one of the best in that role. He was also a great leader and somebody who inspired confidence in his teammates. He was also hard as nails and had a dirty streak and a temper.

An outstanding player, which you had to be to captain the teams he did.

They don't make midfielders like that anymore. As Keane said before he was retiring, Gerrard was the last of them.

I'd rather him with me that against me.

Btw wash hands folks.

Up there with Keane, Gerrard, Johnny Giles

I'm a Celtic fan so have a few grudges against Souness but he was hands down a world class footballer and for a few years one of the very best.

He has the lot. Would beat pogba in every aspect of the game and Souness would be the only to walk away from a 50/50 between the two.

Would be a £100m player today.

Very good player, perfectly suited to 70’s football, wouldn’t be so effective today as 40% of his game (thuggery) would see him sidelined too often for him to make a real impact

Thuggery

He was certainly a hard man of the game but that was sometimes the nature if the game back then. Definitely inspirational to his team mates and of course he was a Scot which earns him total respect.

Scottish Pogba.

Pogmanay.

In today’s game he’d be Mark Noble

A cross between Joey Barton and Begbie from Trainspotting.

I saw Keane

Would that be the closest modern comparison?

Thug with a bad attitude

Glad his ilk are gone from the game

He was a player when a centre half type player was the backbone of the team and they had to do their job however ugly it got. Men were men and didn't play in slippers.

comment by New Magnum. The Mild Drover (U16400)
posted 8 hours, 10 minutes ago
I'm a Celtic fan so have a few grudges against Souness but he was hands down a world class footballer and for a few years one of the very best.

He has the lot. Would beat pogba in every aspect of the game and Souness would be the only to walk away from a 50/50 between the two.

Would be a £100m player today.


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How many 50/50s do you see Pogba flying into?

Pogba doesn't give enough of a fack, he just loses the ball and starts walking back, waiting for other players to work hard, repossess the ball and give it to him again. Pogba won't risk his leg getting broke for a club called Manchester United and yet the fans have elevated him to a level where you'd think he's actually as good as any midfielder. United would be better if they replaced Pogba with Doucoure who gives his all for the team.

Its embarassing the way Pogba has gone at United, now faking injuries even, and Mancs will never admit Pogba is crap and the greatest flop of all time so they make out and delude themselves that he ain't so bad end masse.

frankly this shows how people with no clue wum away thinking they know stuff.

theres about 2 comments on here that are decent.

If you wanted to play football against he would out play you.

If you wanted a physical confrontation he would beat you.

He's arguably the best central midfielder to have played for the club.

By arguably, i assume you mean its between him and Hendo right?

With respect it only takes a quick google to see what the story was.

the wums conveniently ignore the fact that their own sides had "hard men"

souness has pace, a brilliant range of passing and a thunderous shot but could score off both feet as well.

Yes he was harder than anyone around him, yes he broke jaws and legs and kicked anything that moved. you'd swear the other players in the 70s AND 80s (yeah that was another stupid wum) didn't

Peopel forget that players were raised in the conditions they were raised in and adapt to them. souness played on boggy pitches surrounded by hackers who were let on with it by refs and to get sent off was nearly impossible.

If he played today he'd adapt and his pace, passing and shooting ability would shine. Zero question.

BTW while roy keane was under rated in terms of ability on the ball he doesn't even come close to the ability of souness.

Steve Mcmahon came in from everton after souness and was the forgotten man of the 1986-1990 dalglish era but he was twice the player keane was too.

I would agree with Paisley personally. Gerrard was so good he was not allowed be a midfielder by rafa. he was pushed forward (and wider right as well)

The trend is anyone who can play gets pushed forward and they dont do the real work of a midfielder which is get on the ball and influence. Rodgers put gerrard deeper and he had more influence when he's legs had gone at times than he did when he was in his prime.

Same happened to fabregas (who ended up striker for spain in one tournament), same happened to alli at spurs.

same probably happened to pogba after leaving juve.

Same didn’t happen to Pogba, we’ve tried to use him in a two and he’s a liability. For a midfielder he lacks a number of key things, tactical awareness, defensive intelligence,amongst others. What he does have is a superb ability to play a final ball, which is why he’s best used further forward in a 3. Nowhere near complete enough to be a proper cm.

Lampard benefited from the push them forward idea at least. He didnt quite play 10 but he was in that zone

I can see how some others were slightly wasted by it. Gerrard should have basically picked his position

It was in that time period when everything was moving on from 4 4 2 towards having defensive minds and attacking mids

But you could still have a traditional box to box in a midfield 3