Okocha: My time as a footballer came too early, Messi came right time

Nigerian football legend, Austin Jay-Jay Okocha has reacted to Lionel Messi’s  £1 million weekly pay, recalls that the Argentine football star, Lionel Messi as signed a whopping contract with Paris St-Germain (PSG), a contracts which see him pockets  a £1 million per/weekat his new club.
 
According to The Guardian, Okocha said his time as a footballer came too early while Messi came at the right time. 

 
He added that if he was paid such amount, he would have considered staying back at France and not coming back to Nigeria. 
 
Okocha said; 
 

“I came too early and Messi came at the right time. If I was paid such amount of money in my playing days, maybe I would have stayed back in France forever. I wouldn’t have thought of coming to Nigeria.”