Any criticism as a footballer must hurt, particularly when you're a top level one who has won pretty much everything there is to win in the world game.
And then when that criticism comes from one of your heroes then it will hurt even more.
As a fellow Dutchman, Virgil van Dijk would have grown up admiring the displays of Ruud Gullit as he carved out a career as one of world football's very, very best players.
