News about Graeme Souness

Sir Alex Ferguson will miss Manchester United's match with Brentford on Saturday, the club's first game since his ambassadorial contract was axed. Man United's minority owners Ineos and Sir Jim Ratcliffe took the decision to rip up Ferguson's £2million-a-year contract as part of cost cutting measures. The 82-year-old has a prior engagement leading to his absence from Old Trafford on Saturday.  

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY SAMI MOKBEL: It is the afternoon of October 4, 2024. Paul Pogba stands at home gazing out of the window overcome with shock. Happy shock. He's dressed in a suit, a circumstance that Pogba later tells me has had his family in stitches of laughter. Indeed, Pogba is finally allowing himself a smile. Surely not even Graeme Souness would begrudge him that. Over 12 months of heartache; a period Pogba morbidly describes as 'darkness' has reached its climax. It's an ending that has brought vindication to Pogba's fight for justice; the doping ordeal, that originally saw him banned for four years for testing positive for banned substance DHEA, is over - the Court of Arbitration for Sport slashing his original suspension to 18 months on appeal after the body ruled he did not intentionally seek an advantage.

Paul Pogba could soon resume his football career after seeing his four-year ban for a doping offence reduced to 18 months following a successful appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The former Manchester United midfielder - who won the World Cup with France in 2018 - has been out of action since September last year when he last played for Juventus. Under the terms of his reduced ban, Pogba is now free to return to training in January 2025, before being permitted to play again from March.

Sunderland and Leeds players will wear specially designed 'Every Minute Matters' t-shirts during the warm-up ahead of their Championship clash to help raise awareness of the importance of learning CPR.  It comes as the campaign celebrates hitting the milestone of teaching 100,000 people CPR since the initiative began in May this year.  Sky Bet and the British Heart Foundation's 'Every Minute Matters' campaign seeks to educate people on potentially life-saving CPR training. They have set a target of 270,000 people to start learning CPR by the end of the 2024-25 season. 

IAN HERBERT AT THE EMIRATES STADIUM: There was a time when a vital goal like Arsenal's, in the death throes of a game, would have sent Mikel Arteta barrelling gleefully down the touchline. It was not to everyone's liking. Graeme Souness, for one, respectfully suggested on these pages a few seasons back that he might want to tone things down. That was then. Arteta was the soul of sobriety when Leandro Trossard's 94th-minute deflected shot killed off Leicester, with no theatrics impeding a final mustering of Arsenal's coaching team while the Emirates basked in euphoria.

Graeme Souness has revealed he had to undergo emergency heart surgery after having an 'episode' while watching England's recent UEFA Nations League win over Finland. The Liverpool legend has had a history of heart problems since retiring from playing in 1991 and was diagnosed with coronary heart disease at the age of just 38.

To close the gap on Celtic, Graeme Souness suspects his former club Rangers need to spend a figure in the region of £50million. Three or four quality signings, he believes, would make all the difference. There's a problem with that, of course. Speaking on the William Hill podcast Three Up Front, the former Ibrox boss acknowledged the brass tacks of the situation when he said: 'Rangers don't have the money right now. If they were to spend £50m, it'd be nip and tuck between the two of them.'

SIMON JORDAN: To this day, Manchester United, fresh off their 3-0 loss to Liverpool, are an incredibly valuable property inside the auspices of the Premier League and are the Ferrari (inset) of the Premier League. They have the effect of gold dust. Graeme Souness calls them FC Hollywood. The club created out of workers' unions has become the club with all the fizz. It's something the Premier League won't want to lose. They like to see their major brands doing well but neither can United be complacent because the league is now an international product and package that's the sum of all its parts, no longer exclusively reliant on Old Trafford.

Graeme Souness has claimed that Kobbie Mainoo is not good enough to be a regular starter for Manchester United.  Mainoo has become a prominent player for both United and England since his first team breakthrough last November.  The 19-year-old scored in the FA Cup final win over Manchester City in May and also started in England's Euro 2024 final defeat by Spain. 

Graeme Souness has opened up on the game he found hardest to work on as a pundit in the latest episode of Everything I Know About Me, a weekly Mail podcast that is available every Thursday. The iconic 71-year-old enjoyed a glittering career in the game before eventually moving into a punditry role.  He covered the European Cup final in 1985 between Juventus and Liverpool when the Heysel Stadium disaster happened.

Liverpool legend Graeme Souness believes Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice to be 'overhyped' and not worth the £100million the Gunners shelled out for him. Souness revealed that the significant transfer fee the Gunners paid to secure the Englishman's move from West Ham is partly responsible for Rice being overhyped. Rice's transfer to Arsenal was announced in July 2023 for a deal worth £105million, including £5million in add-ons.

Graeme Souness has claimed there is no significant gap in quality between Rangers and Celtic ahead of this weekend's Old Firm showdown. Rangers will go into Sunday's clash at Parkhead as underdogs against a Celtic side who have won three successive league titles. Brendan Rodgers' team have started the new season in good form and also now have cash reserves of well over £80million in the bank after selling Matt O'Riley for a record fee of £25m earlier this week.

For Ibrox legend Graeme Souness, the siege mentality and feeling of being written off is something which should fuel the Rangers players in their efforts to cause a shock. Asked how he would feel if he were a Rangers player in that sort of environment, he said: 'I would relish it, bring it on. See if we can squeeze 80,000 in. F***, yeah. Don't ask me, ask some of my team-mates. The bigger the game, the better I was. The bigger the challenge, bring it on.

Almost 20 years after last being immersed in Glasgow's unique sporting conflict, Martin O'Neill has a confession to make. 'I have to say, for my five years there, I was obsessed with Rangers,' he confides. 'For instance, if we were playing on a Sunday, you knew that Rangers dropping points away from home on the Saturday was vital.

Graeme Souness has opened up on the biggest challenge he has faced in the final episode of Everything I Know About Me, a weekly Mail Sport podcast that is available every Thursday. The iconic 71-year-old, who enjoyed a glittering career in the game, has also been well-known for his charitable work. And, during a fundraising campaign for DEBRA, a charity seeking a cure for epidermolysis bullosa - a rare medical condition that leads to the skin blistering easily - Souness swam the English Channel in June 2023 as part of a six-person relay team, raising £1million in the process.

Football legend turned Hollywood actor Vinnie Jones has signed for Sky Bet and the British Heart Foundation by joining their 'Every Minute Matters' campaign ahead of transfer deadline day. With less than 48 hours until the summer window slams shut, Sky Bet - in partnership with the cardiovascular research charity - pulled off a stunning coup by luring former Wimbledon, Leeds United and Chelsea hard man Jones as part of their star-studded 'Re-Starting 11' squad including Graeme Souness and Luton captain Tom Lockyer. As part of the 'Every Minute Matters' campaign, which seeks to educate people on potentially life-saving CPR training, Sky Bet and the British Heart Foundation have set a target of 270,000 people to start learning CPR by the end of the 2024-25 campaign, which got underway just less than a fortnight ago.

Graeme Souness does not believe Liverpool will improve on their third-placed finish from last season under Arne Slot this term. Slot has replaced legendary boss Jurgen Klopp at the helm and made a winning start last weekend when the Reds beat newly-promoted Ipswich Town 2-0 at Portman Road. When Klopp announced he would be leaving in January, it looked like his successor would have strong foundations to build on as Liverpool were still in with a chance of pulling off an unprecedented Quadruple.

Graeme Souness has opened up on the biggest regret of his life in the latest episode of Everything I Know About Me, a weekly Mail Sport podcast that is available every Thursday. The 71-year-old icon, who played for and coached Liverpool during his glittering career in football, was involved in a controversy during his reign as manager in 1992. After having major heart surgery in hospital, Souness conducted an interview with The Sun which celebrated Liverpool's FA Cup semi-final victory against Portsmouth and the success of his own operation.

SIMON JORDAN: What is Chelsea 's financial plan given they've splashed out £1.2billion on players since 2022 and do not appear to be stopping anytime soon? You can't call it admirable to spend money like drunken sailors but I've tried to step back from the laughable 'purists' point of view and consider how owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali see things strategically. To them, this is likely a marathon, not a sprint. They bought the business for £2.5billion thinking no doubt it could be worth 10-£15billion in a decade's time the way sport is going, alongside other benefits of owning a prized asset like a London-based Premier League club.

Graeme Souness has opened up on the new Everything I Know About Me podcast, revealing the moment he was targeted in a shooting. The 71-year-old Scottish footballer has had a highly successful career, playing for Liverpool, Sampdoria, and Rangers - winning 20 trophies. Playing during a tumultuous time in Scotland, Souness told all on the time there was a threat to his life.

JOE BERNSTEIN: Tens of thousands of Mail Sport readers have voted over the summer to choose the greatest ever player at every current Premier League club. Thank you to everyone who participated either through our online poll or by email. With the 2024-25 top-flight season beginning on Friday, August 16, we are revealing all the winners this week.

Graeme Souness has given a damning verdict on incoming Manchester United centre back Matthijs de Ligt as he prepares to sign for Erik ten Hag 's side. The former Ajax captain previously worked with his soon-to-be manager at the Dutch club before his departure for Juventus in 2019, and Ten Hag has been keen to link up with the defender for some time.

Graeme Souness has revealed on Daily Mail's 'Everything I Know About Me' podcast that he once threw a pint of beer over one of his former Liverpool team-mates after the pair came to a disagreement in a Dublin nightclub.  During a glittering career, Souness would enjoy the best part of his success with the Reds, winning three European Cups and five English League titles.  The 71-year-old would join the club in 1978 and go on to eventually captain the side returning 55 goals and 40 assists across 358 competitive games. 

Graeme Souness was overcome with emotion on the Mail's Everything I Know About Me podcast as he opened up on his mum's death.  The former Scotland footballer was playing for Liverpool at the time of his mum's passing and had been travelling to the south coast to play against Southampton.  The team had stopped in Oxford for lunch where Souness had called his brother, Billy, to ask about his mother's health. His mum had been unwell, but Souness' brother told him that their mother was going to die that night.