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Souness on Over-Paid Players
The former Liverpool, Rangers and Newcastle manager hit out by claiming that the inflated salaries paid to footballers these days has changed the professional game for the worse since his days as a players when he led the Anfield club to the pinnacle of European football.
"It's very easy to just say it's money but it is money - money's given them a voice that they never had," Souness said.
"A quick example: me as a 30-year-old in the Liverpool dressing room. I've won several European Cups and lots of leagues, captain of Liverpool, captain of Scotland. If I had offered an opinion, they'd have looked at me as if I had two heads.
"ËœYou've got young players today who play half a dozen times in the first team, they've all got an opinion and they want to be heard and it's not for me.
"I was very fortunate to play with some great players, play in teams who won things, that's the way I was brought up. I thought it was correct, the way I was acting, but obviously the game has changed greatly."
The 56-year-old has been out of management since being sacked by Newcastle three years ago when he was involved in high-profile disagreements with Craig Bellamy and Laurent Robert.
Souness, who also managed Blackburn, Southampton, Turkish side Galatasaray and Benfica, continued: "There's a great story about the most successful manager in this country. There's been a confrontation with a senior player and that senior player turned round to the manager and said: 'You've changed'.
"He (the manager) said 'wait a minute, you've all changed' and the reason you've changed is because of the kind of money you get today. Everyone's got an opinion today.
"Everyone's got something to offer and that's changed the game dramatically.' I don't want to be involved again. I haven't got the energy or the patience to deal with players any more. I accept at my age it's a very different game today. It just doesn't appeal to me."
Souness spoke out following the dismissal of Olympiakos manager Temuri Ketsbaia.
He continued: "It can only be, he's gone in there and upset some of the senior players, and they've gone to the president and said 'we're not having him' because that's the way it is today. Players are all-powerful today.
"If you've got four or five players on X amount a week and they fall out with the manager, they'll get him out of a job. It's no different in this country. It's becoming like that in this country. It's certainly been like that for a long time on the Continent."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/6205152/Overpaid-footballers-deters-Graeme-Souness-from-management-return.html
