Graeme Souness (born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish former professional football player and manager. He is perhaps best known as the captain of the successful Liverpool team of the early 1980s, and as a manager with Rangers, and Liverpool. As a player he boasted the unique qualities of being as hard as nails and yet a supremely gifted ball player, which led him to be dubbed 'Renoir with a razorblade’.  Souness had played just once for Spurs prior to a £30,000 move to Middlesbrough in 1972. His tenacious style soon caught the interest of other clubs, but it was Liverpool who signed him in 1978 as a replaced for Ian Callaghan. Souness won five League Championships, three European Cups and four League Cups over the next seven seasons.  He left Liverpool in 1984, joining Italian team Sampdoria for a fee of £650,000.  In his first season, Sampdoria won the Coppa Italia with a 3-1 victory over Serie A rivals AC Milan, securing the trophy for the first time in the club's history.  Souness's career in Italy ended in 1986 as he took up the position of player-manager at Rangers.  What came popularly to be termed the 'Souness Revolution' began with a number of major signings from English clubs. Souness's revitalised Rangers quickly began to dominate Scottish football. Souness left Rangers, to take over as manager of Liverpool, in 1991.  He was unable to repeat his success at Liverpool, with only a 2-0 victory in the 1992 FA Cup final over Second Division Sunderland. Souness stepped down at the end of January 1994 when Liverpool suffered a shock FA Cup exit at the hands of Bristol City. He went on to manage Galatasaray in Turkey, Southampton, Torino, Benfica, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United with varying degrees of success.