Former England defender Danny Mills stated that Nigerian football icon Austin ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha never played for Arsenal or Manchester United because he was a maverick.
Okocha played for Frankfurt and Fenerbahce before joining Paris Saint-Germain in 1998.
He eventually made his Premier League debut when Bolton Wanderers signed him from PSG.
However, Okocha never featured for any of the biggest clubs in England’s top division.
Mills believes those teams didn’t know how to handle a player like him.
He told Complete Sports: “Can you imagine if he’d been in an Arsenal or at Man United of that time, you know, rather than Bolton, he could have been even better, you know, because, you know, better players.
“How he wasn’t at one of those clubs [Arsenal, Man United, etc], I’m not quite sure.
“Maybe the fact that he was so maverick and was such an individual – maybe some of the top clubs looked at that and thought, ‘how do we accommodate him into a team’?
“But yeah, Jay-Jay Okocha was absolutely sensational,” he added.
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