Souness revealed the midfielder was 'upset with me many years ago' and the pundit has finally publicly apologised for his stinging criticism of the then 19-year-old star.
Souness delivers public U-turn on Liverpool star 18 years after ‘wouldn’t win anything’ claimGraeme Souness has finally made a public apology to Liverpool star James Milner, who he delivered a stinging comment about 18 years ago.
‘I was discussing leadership with Simon Jordan. James Milner was one of those I named as a leader I would want in my dressing room. At Newcastle, I knew him as a young boy,’ Souness wrote in his column. ‘I was trying to say that you needed men. He was only 19 at the time. I apologised to him for that and I hope he’s forgiven me. You can never have enough James Milners in the dressing room. He makes other players turn up.’nearly two decades to publicly apologise to Milner for his comments, the midfielder opened up about the incident in a 2018 interview, revealing he held no grudge.
“I think the first time I finished a season with the same manager who started it was Martin O’Neill at Villa, probably five seasons into my career. When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.
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