John Barnes
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And I can't then retrospectively look back on me, bring myself forward to say, if I was playing now, I wouldn't be that way because I've got my 61-year-old head.
And if I was playing now at 25 years old, I'd probably be just like them.
Because this is the environment they're brought up in, the feel.
And this is the environment fans put individual players above their teammates.
We've seen it at all clubs.
At Man United, fans would say, we love him, but we don't love him.
Now that's fine for the fans, but the players can't see themselves that way.
Unfortunately, I think modern players sometimes do feel more important than their teammates.
Yeah.
They've got their own company, their own team.
That's what it is.
I think we've created this.
Once the Premier League started, we created this separation of superstars and the rest of them aren't superstars type of thing.
You know what I mean?
So...
Look at the kids now on social media and you can look at influencers who we will say, what's an influencer?
Because you have followers and you do nothing?
But this is modern life, you've got to get used to it.
A shitload of money back then.
Let me kick off 900,000, that's all.