It all started when we bought Steve Macmahon (could have spelt it wrong) to replace Souness. Not fit to lace his boots.
I loved Macca as a player, but he wasn't in the same league as Souness in brains and creativity and passing. Terrific engineroom battler tho. I loved his duels with Peter Reid..!
I know there was a gap between Sourness and Macca. But since Souness it was one sad affair of also rans being bought or tried out. Lee, MacDonald, Molby, Wark, Whelan, Barnes, Thomas, Stewart all with differing degrees of success in midfield, over a length of time.
After Macca, there was only Ince and then Didi+Stevie at the top level, until the Xabi and Masch era came.
This was a HUGE length of time.
The loss of Souness was actually massive IMO. Before then, we'd never sold and then downsized on a player. (Keegan was replaced by a fellow megastar for similar money).
We struggled to replace Souness and it actually pulled the rest of the team down.
I can see MANY parallels with the Luis sale. And it certainly puts to bed the myth that we "always replaced superstars".
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