"During my time at Newcastle and Glenn Roeder's time we had money to spend but it was money to tart the team up, not to build a team...I didn't enjoy my time up there".
Having wrecked so many different club sides that he can no longer even buy himself a job at a football team, serial failed manager Graeme Souness now makes a living by telling more successful people where they're going wrong - a bit like Chesney Hawkes advising Mick Jagger on the best way to prolong his music career or John Reid writing a list of prisoner control tips for Josef Stalin.
In case anyone has forgotten, this really is the same Graeme Souness who wasted almost £50 million on Albert Luque (£10 million), Jean-Alain Boumsong (£8.5 million), Celestine Babayaro (£1 million plus astronomical salary) and desperation buy Michael Owen (£16 million, a loss making buy-out clause and £120,000 a week for twelve games in two years), while allowing more productive and committed players to leave for a pittance. Poor Glenn Roeder had the dual misfortune of being a crap manager and having no money to spend because his predecessor had thrown it all away.
I can think of at least 50,000 people who enjoyed Souness' time at Newcastle - grim football, awful results and constant whinging about injuries - even less than he did. But not many of them got £3 million to go away.
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