Jay-Jay Okocha speaks on the popular GOAT debate between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi and shares his pick.

“Ronaldo is a special player. But he’s, for me, a goal scorer. He can score 10 million goals. He is a goal scorer. It’s like Haaland. Haaland is a goal scorer.”

“But Messi, Messi, Messi is on another planet,” he said.

“Messi was born to play football, you know. Messi, I think Messi will get ill if he doesn’t play football. You know, he’s a genius,” he added.

Former Nigerian footballer Jay-Jay Okocha shares a club he almost joined.

“I got an offer from Bayern Munich. I went with their youth team to a tournament in Switzerland, and after that, they wanted to sign me.”

“Because I turned 18 in August, German rules stated that you had to turn 18 before July to play professionally that season. Because of that, I wasn’t even allowed to play in the promotion play-offs for the third division team I was playing for, even though we won our regional league and were aiming for the professional second division.”

Okocha has previously spoken about the failed move to Bayern Munich, explaining that he took part in a tournament with Bayern’s youth team in Switzerland and was later invited to Munich, but the move did not happen.

Manchester United manager Michael Carrick sends out a message that he needs more players before the summer transfer window ends.

He revealed in a recent interview “We want more, we need more, we keep looking for how we can do that. Money’s money, I understand that. We believe we must strive for success in every competition we participate in, while remaining realistic about our recent history over time.

“For now, we must maximise our current situation, but we need to push every limit possible to achieve victory again, essentially. That is the challenge.”