Thats ridiculous.
Its fair enough to suggest that the game has changed, because it has.
You think players like Cruyff, rijkaard, gullit, baresi, maldini, zico, mara-fucking-dona, hugo sanchez, di stefano, puskas, hagi, stoichkov, romario, roberto baggio, bobby moore, peter shmeichel, lev yashin, socrates, garrincha, peter fucking pele, klinsmann, koeman, beckenbauer, matthaus, effenberg, kempes, passarella, sivori, platini, cafu, roberto carlos, b. charlton, georgey best, keegan, dalglish, cantona, neeskens, van basten, eusebio...are 'surpassed' by the generation of the Now and near Now??? Not a chance.
There have always been and there always will be some wonderful football players. By now, with less war, better facilities, better training methods, better health care, and much more $ in the game than ever before, true, the standard of football should have increased, at the top and bottom of the game. but i don't see any obvious difference between the stars of today and the stars of the 50s or 60s or 80s or 90s...true greats are true greats, regardless of the era. And having been watching football for 20 years, i notice zero upsurge in the standard of the best of the best players.