Why Souness rejected Barcelona when he left Liverpool

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Liverpool legend Graeme Souness has revealed he rejected the chance to sign for Barcelona when he left the European champions in 1984.The Scotland midfielder joined Italian club Sampdoria for £650,000 just weeks after lifting Liverpool's fourth European Cup against Roma.Souness was then one of the world's finest midfielders - he finished sixth in that year's Ballon d'Or - so his decision to swap Anfield for Genoa, rather than one of Europe's heavyweights, was a surprise."I had to leave Liverpool because my wife at the time was about to inherit money and she had to spend three years out of the country," Souness told BBC Scotland's The Saturday Show."I could have got around it somehow, but I decided to go because at that time Italy was the place to go. That's how I ended up there."Souness, whose new book 'My Rangers: How I changed Scottish football for ever' was released this week, believes his old club have the psychological edge over Celtic following the two Old Firm victories by Derek McInnes' side in September.Rangers beat Celtic 3-0 in the League Cup at Ibrox then won 1-0 at Celtic Park in the Premiership a week later and sit two points behind the champions in the table."They've now psychologically planted a seed in Celtic's heads that they are bigger, stronger and better than them in the last two games," he said."Celtic have left Ibrox after losing 3-0 in the first game thinking, 'how did that happen?' It didn't flatter Rangers.

Well, it did happen again, and on your pitch - and the 1-0 did not flatter Rangers."So they've now got a psychological edge over Celtic, but that could be short-lived if Rangers were to lose a game against a team they're expected to beat. They're in a wonderful position, but they have to understand that, every team you play, it's the opposition's cup final.

So Derek's got to remind them of that and they'll look like they've started to believe. He did get off to a slow start, but in the last couple of games they've turned an enormous corner."