Liverpool is tipping his friend Mohamed Salah to shine once again as Premier League fans backed him to reign supreme in the goals-coring charts next season.
Rush, Liverpool's all-time top goal-scorer with 346 goals in 660 games, has struck up a friendship with Salah in recent years and Rush, 60, had discussed the contract situation with the Egyptian and have his advice before Salah put pen to paper on a new three-year deal that would keep him at Anfield until 2026.
Rush left Liverpool for Juventus in 1987 but was back at Anfield a year later, and the Welshman used his own experience to try to convince Salah to remain a Reds player.
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"I went to Juventus but I was lucky enough to come back," said Rush, speaking exclusively to the ECHO.
"I told him that the grass isn't always greener on the other side and that he could go on and achieve something magical at Liverpool, to try and break my records and to write his name into Liverpool history forever.
"I know Mo and I didn't think at any stage he would leave. I know how much he loves the club and the fans and how much he values it all. Having the chance to create a legacy means something to him.
"I'm made up that he is staying. It's fantastic for him and fantastic for the club and it is absolutely the right decision."
Rush was speaking upon the release of the annual SkyBet Fan Hope Survey which gaged opinion from Premier League supporters over their hopes and fears for the coming season.
With regards to Salah, his future now well and truly resolved, 23 per cent of Premier League fans think the 30 year old will be the top scorer, the highest percentage in the league and ahead of Manchester City new boy Erling Haaland in second place with 22 per cent and Tottenham Hotspur's Harry Kane, third with 19 per cent. Liverpool summer signing Nunez received two per cent of the vote.
On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the most optimistic, Liverpool fans registered 8.8 for the coming season, a figure that placed them second overall behind Manchester City (9.0) and one place ahead of Newcastle United in third (7.7).
Following a season where the Reds won the FA Cup and Carabao Cup, reached the Champions League final and were 15 minutes away from the Premier League title, spirits are understandably high.
Reds boss Jurgen Klopp received a massive 40 per cent of the overall vote when it came to the Premier League's best manager, with Pep Guardiola in second place with 26 per cent, while after the additions of Darwin Nunez, Fabio Carvalho and Calvin Ramsey, 91 per cent of fans are happy with the club’s current recruitment, the most optimistic regarding transfers in the Premier League.
With Klopp taking the lion's share of the fans' vote for best manager, Rush believes the German's new deal was as important as anything else that the club could have done.
"For him to sign was massive, and a lot of credit has to go to the owners on that," said Rush.
"He puts in so much hard work, he gets the club and sets the standards and he has a brilliant coaching team around him. You know when you've got a good manager when even the opposition fans like him!"
When it comes to the 2022/23 title race, 61 per cent of Liverpool fans think they’ll win the league over Man City this season while on the European stage 44 per cent of Liverpool supporters think that they will win the Champions League.
"If you look at last season, we won two cups, made the final of the Champions League which we could have won were it not for their keeper, and we were a few minutes away from winning the title," said Rush.
"Last season was remarkable, but Liverpool will expect this coming season to be remarkable as well. Other teams have strengthened but so have Liverpool, they have added some real quality and the younger players from last season will be even better.
"I think they've got a fantastic chance again."
Anfield was ranked the best stadium in the league for atmosphere with 25 per cent of the vote.
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