I don't know about you, but it surprises me that Shay Given remains at Newcastle. He is a great keeper who really should be playing for a team higher in the league. He has been at Newcastle since 1997, and I'm sure at this stage in his career, Shay doesn't want to have to settle for finishing 14th every season. Arsenal and Liverpool are looking to sign goalkeepers, and both should be banging down his club's door to sign him.
As for Shay's club, they seem to be lurching from one crisis to another. Their manager is a joke, not playing his best players because he fell out with them, regardless of how good they were. Their chairman this week fined one of their better players a month's wages for daring to come out and tell the truth to the press about what was happening in the club, not bullsh-itting like most players these days.
Souness was a great player at Liverpool, but apart from when he won almost everything in sight at Rangers, he has a terrible managerial record. He was booted out of Liverpool having wrecked the club, didn't last long on the continent either, came back to England to manage Southampton, and eventually found himself at Blackburn. Fell out with several key players and almost got them relegated at one stage. The club struggled last season again, before he left to join Newcastle. He took on a talented side, and soon fell out with one of his strikers, when he didn't want to play out-of-position. He had several run-ins with Robert, which ended with the player being sent down to Portsmouth. His team blew a two goal lead to go out of Europe. His players had a very public on-pitch scrap, and he led his team to a miserly 14th, well away from a European spot.
Souness is ruining that club like he did with most of his others. As for Shay Given, does he really, really want to play in another Intertoto campaign? Does he need to? At this stage of his career, I think he needs to find a fresh challenge somewhere else, if he wants to be successful.
