Former Red slams standardFormer Liverpool striker Fernando Morientes has slammed the quality of the English Premier League and expressed his happiness to have joined Valencia over the summer.
He said: 'I wanted to return to what I knew and play the kind of football in which I felt more comfortable,'
'I didn't like the physical nature of the game in England or the referees who let more things go, and who blow for fewer fouls than they do here,' Morientes added.
'A striker isn't protected from rival defences there, and they gave me a really hard time.'
He said: 'I wanted to return to what I knew and play the kind of football in which I felt more comfortable,'
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