Graeme Souness - Mr Lucky!

[Half Time Pies]

Is Graeme Souness the luckiest man alive?

I mean he becomes manager of Liverpool and gives them their worst season for 30 years!

Then travels around Europe making a pigs ear of managing some of Europes top teams: sacked after 1 year at Galatasary, fired after 4 months at Torino he then manages to secure the top Job at Benfica where he introduces the flair loving Portuguese fans to the delights of Dean Saunders and Mark Pembridge!

Sacked from Benfica he manages to secure the job at Blackburn and now after narrowly avoiding relegation he somehow gets one of the top jobs in the country at Newcastle.

How does the man do it I ask you?!

Have the Board at Newcastle taken leave of their senses?!

 

[chez]

He's right you know!!!!

 

[Beach Hut]

Beggars belief but having had Gullit as manager they won't have a foreign one (excepting a scotsman)

 

[chips and gravy]

Could have been worse - they could have ended up with Terry Venables!

 

[bigc]

Is Graeme Souness the luckiest man alive?

I mean he becomes manager of Liverpool and gives them their worst season for 30 years!

Then travels around Europe making a pigs ear of managing some of Europes top teams: sacked after 1 year at Galatasary, fired after 4 months at Torino he then manages to secure the top Job at Benfica where he introduces the flair loving Portuguese fans to the delights of Dean Saunders and Mark Pembridge!

Sacked from Benfica he manages to secure the job at Blackburn and now after narrowly avoiding relegation he somehow gets one of the top jobs in the country at Newcastle.

How does the man do it I ask you?!

Have the Board at Newcastle taken leave of their senses?!

I wish someone could compile a list of the dull english players he took to the foreign clubs

 

[Bozza]

Wasn't he at Southampton too?

 

[graz126]

i totally agree and yet most top football pundits somehow still rate him.

 

[Half Time Pies]

Wasn't he at Southampton too?

Yes he was, narrowly avoided relegation with them (which was seen as a success at the time) but does anyone remember the 'George Wiers Cousin' Fiasco?!

 

[graz126]

what was his name was it ali dia or something like that?

 

[Half Time Pies]

what was his name was it ali dia or something like that?

Yes something like that! Absolutely sums Graeme Souness up though, who else would put a player on in a Premiership game obviously without seeing him train on the telephone advice of someone pretending to be George Weir?!

Think he brought him off about 10 mins later when it became clear to everyone that he was rubbish - I mean what an Idiot!

 

[StevieV]

Yes he was, narrowly avoided relegation with them (which was seen as a success at the time) but does anyone remember the 'George Wiers Cousin' Fiasco?!

Sorry have to correct this...its annoying me

*ahem* George Weah

Sorry

 

[BUTTERBALL]

The only person who saw it coming and indeed said he would be a good choice (long before anyone knew) was Chris Waddle writing in the Sun.

 

[Bluejuice]

I completely agree. Has the world gone mad?

I thought Newcastle were chasing success.

I think the real winners here are Blackburn

 

[graz126]

do they get much compo?

 

[Bluejuice]

I don't know how long Souey had left on his contract but presumably they get remunerated fairly enough

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Reading a Blackburn forum, they were glad to see that back off him!

 

[NMH]

I harbour a small disdain for the pompous toon, who reckon themselves summat chronic, so this is good news. 3 months til the team and fans rebel and Shearer reluctantly takes the reins.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

he jamed his way up from div one as well

 

[Gwylan]

The board made it plain they wanted a British manager and the rest had turned the job down. They were running out of choices.

If I were a Newcastle board member, I'd be wondering why the team with the second highest gates in the country and is in Europe this season, has such trouble finding a manager.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

prob because of the board themselves