I came too soon, Okocha jokes following Messi’s £1million week after week pay
Okocha
Previous Super Eagles chief, Austin Jay Okocha, pronounced yesterday that his footballing days ‘came too soon.’ He was responding to information on Lionel Messi’s week by week bring home of £1 million at Paris St-Germain.
After over 20 years, 778 games, 672 objectives, 35 prizes, including 10 La Liga titles, four Champions Leagues and various individual records and praises, Messi at long last passed on Barcelona to set up his shelter with the French goliath, PSG.
Okocha, a fast and capable playmaker, who is considered as outstanding amongst other Nigerian footballers and players to emerge from African landmass, revealed to The Guardian in a phone visit before long the information on Messi’s large compensation broke out that his time as a footballer came too soon.
“I came too soon and Messi came at the ideal opportunity,” Okocha kidded. “In case I was paid such measure of cash in my playing days, possibly I would have remained back in France for eternity. I wouldn’t have considered coming to Nigeria.”
Jay Okocha’s supernatural showcase baited numerous Nigerian fans to French League in his playing days. In 1998, the Nigerian set an exchange record when he passed on Fenerbahce in Turkey to PSG in France on a charge of £12.4 million, which was the most elevated by an African player around then. He left PSG for Bolton Wonderers in England in 2002 on a free exchange.
For some, Nigerian fans, Okocha’s enchanted abilities on the field of play is similar to whatever Messi offers in present day football.
Messi, who has won Ballon d’Or multiple times, presently sets himself up for another life in Paris, after he headed out in different directions from Barcelona. He said he feels deceived by the club he has given such a huge amount to. Barcelona had requested that Messi acknowledge a 50 percent decrease in compensation, which he acknowledged without attempting to arrange it.
However, the club later advised him to leave, asserting that getting the Argentine to stay in Catalonia would destroy the club.
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