Messi is a superstar, but Maradona was always kicked: Liverpool legend Ian Rush

Since the Bosman rule (a rule that allows players to join a new club without paying a fee to the old club after their contract with the old one has expired) and when the Premier League started, it has become one of European football’s top clubs. has been made. This was British football in the 70s and 80s. And when players were free to go anywhere, foreign players started coming to England and it became European football. I’ll never forget it and that’s all. Now, people ask what is the difference between when we used to play and today. I would have liked to play today because nobody can kick you. Now you will not even have to get kicked. The pitches are perfect, the balls are light. That’s why football is faster now, it’s the reason. He’s got the pitches right, the shoes are light, the balls are light, so everything happens quickly. Nobody can kick you, it was different when we played. So it was a British game. But now with the arrival of so many foreign players, it has become a European game. Even Gerard Houllier (former Liverpool coach), God bless him, I worked for Gerard as a striker coach and he was getting all the European signings like French and Spanish… I think It has become an individual sport. When we were successful, it was a team game. I learned this when I was at Juventus. I learned that I was playing as a team. But they used to come and say Maradona of Napoli, Rush of Juventus. I went to play as a team. I think if I go back to Juventus to play now I mean I will say I am Rush, I am the best player in the world and people will believe it. But if I went into the Liverpool dressing room and said that, they’d say, well there you go, let’s see how good you are. So, that’s the gap I went through. The difference between the British mentality and the European mentality.