Liverpool and Wales legend Ian Rush makes bold claim about Jurgen Klopp's thrilling Premier League title-chargers

Liverpool FC scoring great Rushie reckons he'd get even more goals playing in Klopp's free-flowing Reds team

Wales legend Ian Rush believes he would score even more goals playing in Jurgen Klopp's thrilling Liverpool team today.

Rush is Liverpool's record scorer, grabbing 346 goals in two different stints with the Anfield giants to establish himself in Reds folklore.

But although he played in great Liverpool teams, first with Kenny Dalglish and Graeme Sounness, afterwards with John Barnes and Peter Beardsley, Rush says he would relish the prospect of lining up in Klopp's Premier League title-chasers.

With Mo Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino pulling the strings, and Klopp advocating a free-flowing style, Rush reckons he would fill his boots in the penalty box.

He also feels he could capitalise on modern day defenders' penchant for trying to play out from the back. Rush was the master at defending from the front, almost inventing the role by pressing centre-halves and forcing them into errors.

"With my pace and everything, I think I’d actually score more goals, to tell you the truth," he told Elis James and John Robins on BBC Radio Five.

"Especially at the back, people want to try and play football, whereas some centre-halves when we played wanted to just kick the ball as far as they can. I see a lot of centre-halves and I think I’d love to play against him, because he’s trying to dribble past us.

"When someone tried to dribble past me I knew I’d get the ball from them, then you’d be on a goal, one on one.”

Answering whether he would have been successful playing today, Rush said: "Yeah, 100 per cent. First, the pitches are perfect today, aren’t they? They’re like carpets. When I look back… it was a heck of a mess.

“But yeah, I think the way that they (Liverpool) play… they play offensive football. Look at it now, the defenders don’t kick you any more. When we were playing, in the first five minutes, I knew a centre-half was going to go straight through me.

"They wouldn’t get booked, they’d say to the referee, ‘We’re just getting warmed up, trying to get into the game’. Kevin Ratcliffe was the king of that.”

Asked which of his Liverpool sides would trouble Klopp's chargers the most, Rush said: “Liverpool have been magnificent the whole season. For me, I’d look at 1984 when we won the treble and 1986 when we won the double.

"I think you can be great teams, but at the end of the day it counts when you win trophies.”