100% agree.

Bitter old dinosaurs 🦖 They should just admit they don't understand xG.

“Low block” seems to be the new one. It’s just a team sitting deep, that’s it😂 but people use it to sound like they’re clever.

Players now run most twice as far a game then they ever have 😂. The games moved on, its like pretending athletics was better before Lycra. The games seems slower and tactical because everyone is strong and fast. Absolutely prehistoric view of the game, why none of them were decent managers

They always refuse to evolve that's why UK don't produce good Managers.

Bang on, football is a simple game that is complicated by idiots. Sky Sports News has also given coverage to journalists who know absolutely fuck all about internal deals being done but they sit there for 3 months spouting shite and people are then disappointed by their lies. 🤮

What frustrates him is codification meeting reification. Analysts filled the lexical gap & labeled everything. His problem isn’t with the ideas - it’s with the labeling of what already existed. Allowing the modern game to claim what they created, as their own.

XG is a stat, just like possession, shots and corners. I don’t know why people get so upset

Souness’s Liverpool never gave it away because they could pass it back into the keepers arms!

Low block , xg, transitions, field tilt , touches in box , all absolute shit

Keep living in the past. At some point in life you have to evolve to survive. Even the human race had to evolve.

Souey absolutely spot on here

Souness is always spot on

Go rewatch an Arsenal vs Utd during the Wenger / Fergie days. The first 20 minutes, the ball was up in the air.. the general standard was low. it’s far more methodical now. I also think the standard in the lower half clubs is far higher than it was back then

He’s right and people don’t like it because it makes them feel silly

Stats nerds and analytics geeks ruining the game

Old dinosaurs in the game like souness think just because they played, they understand football. You’d never think he played with his analyses after a game. Pub level understanding 😂

They’re clueless dinosaurs. If they played the game today they’d be out of breath after 5 min. Science is needed to monitor players and the money invested in players means it’s too risky to just fluke it like Graeme and co. They used to go for a drink after the game back then lol

XG is the biggest load of bollocks ever

He’s correct. The only major difference is in the fitness and conditioning of the players due to advances in sport science, which allows them to press harder and run faster, for much longer. But the principles are absolutely the same as they have been for decades.

He’s not wrong with some of his point here but he’s still a weirdo

Bunch of retarded dinosaurs who have been left in the stone age. Souness is experiencing early stage dementia staying in touch with modernization of football. It inspired crap & BS for him to compare his days with the intensity, complexity & pace of football now.

The man is right. Imagine playing with 13 players in a first team squad and winning leagues, European cups on shite pitches. A world class player who knows his football.

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT @SkysportSouness they're all BLUFFERS. These new technology types and office types are for me why football is demanding HUGE amounts of money, not just paying wages and fees BUT more and more people doing jobs when years ago one or two people would do.

@BPete1970 Is souness also an absolute bluffer considering he was a pants manager and he let some random convince him he was related to George weah and gave him a trial purely off that the fucking idiot😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Who is that with Saunders and Souness? Doing my head in and had him on the radio before

He's absolutely bang on and is one of the few old school footballers that is well within his right to call it as it !

@Billytheyid70 I agree with Souness to a point but I honestly think he’s struggling with fact the game is evolving drastically each year And also the great team he played in 40 years ago is slowly becoming forgotten about being pioneers of world football at the time

Football people are the worst ones for these phrases, hear them in punditry going on about “playing through the lines” and “pivots” and “double pivots” 🤣 fucking pivots like WTF

Don't forget the Academisation of players, the fear of mavericks & the preference for athleticism over technique. It's more than just the vocabulary.

I love that there are so many idiots who don't appreciate the xG stat. I really do.

People get older and they don’t accept things move on. Whilst I accept some comments it’s a true statement and it’s not just football. Lion at your older peers telling you their era of music was the best. This is the same

Daft as it sounds, I think the FIFA video game franchise has a lot to answer for in all this nonsense. "Yeah, my kid is a CDM" I've had one mate say to me. What nonsense.

They skipped the part where technology didn't exist as advanced as today so everything is amplified and seen with replays so accurate they now use ai images. Back then they only played 30-45 games top but u have teams cracking 60 games now. How does he expect them t maintain ftns

Not completely untrue, but mostly this is crap. Truth is teams today would wipe the floor with any European finalist from just a few decades ago..

The numbers or false numbers does my head in. "He's a false 9 but drops into a free 8 position so he can absorb the attack on the hole". It's all just gibberish to sound intelligent about the game.