It was delivered with a knowing smile and a job of the pen. Graeme Souness may be sitting in his front room, talking into a webcam, but he knows the point he's trying to make and how to get it across.
'I'm happy with it. The oldest thing in football comes to mind - put your medals on the table... and I've got a big table', he said in reply to Paul Pogba's comments that he still didn't know what Sky Sports' hard-hitting pundit looks like.
It was the latest twist in, what to now, has been a largely one-sided barrage of criticism from the Liverpool legend towards the Manchester United midfielder.