Graeme Souness

He would be the outstanding centre-half around right now.

The boy Harry Maguire and him certainly would be the two of them.

For him to be at Liverpool, when Liverpool went for him in the beginning...

And Salahman said no, and then six months later he did join them.

I thought in that six months, they've alerted Real Madrid, they've alerted Barcelona, this guy's going to be bought.

And I expected Liverpool to get Guzump, but he is a very special player.

And when you look at the age of that back four and the goalkeeper, that's a really, really encouraging sign for Liverpool.

That's a back five that could play for a decade together.

He thought Everett were very much in the game at that time.

Yeah, and that's what we're finding out now, if they've got the mentality to deal with it.

Right now, instead of being so far in front and really putting a...

You know, the foot down and saying, by beating West Ham, by beating Leicester at home, and saying, now you're going to really have a job to catch, that's the door was ajar, especially when City lose to Newcastle.

Now it's a different... They're playing with a different mindset now.

It's now them that can't slip up, and it's City that could possibly slip up by being in front.

It's...

You come back to it.

If you're a player at a big club used to winning stuff, you deal with games like this, you deal with seasons like this, you deal with whatever comes your way.

And it's very easy to say, if you win the league, you've dealt with the down times, the losses and the criticism that comes your way when you don't win.

You've dealt with that better than anybody else.

That's why you win the league.