Graeme Souness: Former Liverpool & Scotland midfielder picks his team-mates XI

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Who is in Souness' team-mates XI?

Graeme Souness tells BBC Scotland who would be in his greatest team-mates XI, including "the most underrated player" of his generation.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Super gers 1973]

Surprised there is no davie cooper.

 

[Tagsbear]

Surprised there is no davie cooper.

He's picked Messi ahead of him to be fair!

 

[Main Stand]

I’m quite surprised Gough is ahead of Butcher, some team nonetheless!.

 

[Sir Walter’s Warriors]

He's picked Messi ahead of him to be fair!

How unstaunch

 

[PMB1872]

A very strong line up.

 

[HandsomeHead]

John Robertson as a wingback?

I don’t think so, Graeme.

 

[Drumchapel]

He's picked Messi ahead of him to be fair!

Thought these were meant to be players you played with or against during your career

 

[donka]

Thought these were meant to be players you played with or against during your career

He is allowed one wildcard, reading the article

 

[Ibroxroar]

Sammy fuckin Lee.

 

[PMB1872]

Sammy fuckin Lee.

That was the strange one for me.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Easy to see Sammy Lee as nothing more than Big Sam's sidekick but he's got two European Cups and played year in year out for that great Liverpool team of the eighties.

 

[Drumchapel]

Sammy fuckin Lee.

Easy to see Sammy Lee as nothing more than Big Sam's sidekick but he's got two European Cups and played year in year out for that great Liverpool team of the eighties.

You have to remember that they starred together in Boys From The Black Stuff - Sammy was between Yosser and Souey in the infamous conversation.

 

[azoots217]

Imagine how hard that must have been for Souness to pick that team considering the amount of top level players he played alongside

 

[dh1963]

His 2 wing backs are horrendously out of position!

 

[Blue Star]

I'd have been more interested to know who the 11th player he'd actually played with would have been, rather than the Messi wildcard option

 

[TheEgg]

Genuinly sat for a few seconds there thinking, when the fvck did he play with Messi!!

then read the article

 

[Calgacus]

Sammy Lee was a tremendous wee player, the kind that is appreciated by teammates for doing all the tracking back and closing down. Scored a few as well.

 

[John MacKenzie]

His 2 wing backs are horrendously out of position!

Don't think the term "wing back" existed in that era.

 

[WW55 on the PRW]

He is allowed one wildcard, reading the article

No Joey Barton??

 

[RangerInCanada]

Get the Messi wildcard TF
Coop all the way!

 

[JerseyLoyalist]

John Robertson as a wingback?

I don’t think so, Graeme.

I don’t know,Robertson did a power of tracking back in that Forest side.

 

[tazzabear]

His 2 wing backs are horrendously out of position!

He’d never had played 3-4-3 to start with.

 

[Mustang mad]

He's picked Messi ahead of him to be fair!

That probably came down to the toss of the coin as well

 

[Ibroxroar]

Sammy Lee was a tremendous wee player, the kind that is appreciated by teammates for doing all the tracking back and closing down. Scored a few as well.

Sammy Lee was a fine player as was Terry Hurlock but he wouldnt be in anyones finest 11.

 

[super10]

I’m quite surprised Gough is ahead of Butcher, some team nonetheless!.

I would have picked Gough over Butcher too

 

[Paisleybear30]

John Robertson seems to make it into every ex teammates best XI

Was he that good because they all seem to rave about him but his legacy doesn't seem to be that of his contemporaries?

 

[The Blue Viper]

No Mancini either.

 

[irnblu]

John Robertson was a tremendous player, there is the famous story about Cloughie after he'd just made Trevor Francis the first million pound footballer. Francis asked what Cloughie expected of him & was told when you get the ball just give it to Robertson as he's a better player than you!

WATP

 

[ArmchairBear]

The wildcard option is just stupid. Far more interesting if they only pick from players that were teammates. Wildcard is like a get out of jail card to avoid offending someone.

 

[ArmchairBear]

The article is annoying too. “In a glittering career, Graeme Souness played for a Liverpool side that won 14 trophies, claimed cups in Italy and Scotland, and earned over 50 caps for his country.”

Not like Pacific Quay CSC to forget he played in the league winning team.