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I broke two Transfer Records! Okocha Clears Air on His £150 million Value Claim

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I broke two Transfer Records! Okocha Clears Air on His £150 million Value Claim

Austin Jay-Jay Okocha wjoined Paris Saint-Germain in the 1998-199 season for a then French record fee.

When Jay-Jay Okocha argued he’d value as a lot as £150 million in valuation in right this moment’s market, apparently he wasn’t joking about it.

The outrageously charges prime golf equipment have spent on gamers acquisitions or the valuations of the highest performers is unprecedented, and Okocha believes as considered one of Soccer’s prime gamers in his period, the market would have rated simply as extremely.

 

Now 49-year-old, he nonetheless instructions the respect of a Tremendous star, and the previous Nigerian worldwide, who additionally performed for Fenerbahçe, Paris Saint-Germain and Bolton mentioned paying over a £100 million for a defensive midfielder means an attacker or artistic participant like him would have commanded extra.

Okocha in action for PSG
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“After all I’d toot my very own horn,” Okocha mentioned on Brila FM’s morning present, “No Holds Barred”.

“At my peak I smashed the French and Turkish switch information. If I wasn’t value £150 million I wouldn’t have been any lower than £120 million.

“That may have been a good worth at my peak as a Participant.”

Within the 1996-97 season he joined Turkish Tremendous Lig facet Fenerbahçe for a then report of €3.5 million.

Two seasons later he moved to the Ligue 1; becoming a member of Paris Saint-Germain, for a then French report price of €12.4 million.

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