- Austin Okocha hails the vision and unselfishness of Premier League's best Kevin De Bruyne
- The former footballer names his best teammates in the Premier League with Bolton Wanderers
- Okocha reveals he regretted his first season in England due to his injury troubles
Retired footballer Austin Jay-Jay Okocha says Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne is the best in the Premier League at the moment.
The Belgian has been key to Pep Guardiola side's racing to the top of the table after ten games with a string of impressive performances notably in an away win over Chelsea.
Okocha told Goal.com that the midfielder's unselfishness and vision sets him out from the rest in the league.
Jay-Jay Okocha has been impressed with De Bruyne this season. Photo: Star Sixes/Twitter
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Asked who his favourite player in the Premier League right now is, the 44-year-old said: "At the moment, the person that impresses me the most is Kevin De Bruyne because of his vision, his unselfishness, and I think he is one of the reasons why Manchester City are tearing the other teams apart now."
Kevin De Bruyne has been described by many as the best player in the Premier League this season. Photo: ManCity/Twitter
Jay Jay played with some of the best players in the Premier League during his four years stay at Bolton and he has picked out the best of the bunch and reveals why they had so much success.
He said: "Youri Djorkaeff, Ivan Campo, El Hadji Diouf – love him or hate him, he was instrumental to what we achieved then, Fernando Hierro and Hidetoshi Nakata from Japan.
"So we had all nationalities in one team and it was great to have these players in the team."
Jay-Jay Okocha celebrates a goal with Youri Djorkaeff. Photo: BBC
Okocha picks out his first season at Bolton (2002/2003) as his worst in England and the best as the moment he helped the team survive relegation in that same season.
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"My worst moment I would say was my first season because I did not realize how tough the EPL is and I did not realize early enough that I signed for a struggling team, but then at the end of the day I will say my greatest moment in EPL was the day that we survived relegation, we survived after the last game of the season," the midfielder said.
The Super Eagles legend joined Bolton in 2002 on a free transfer from PSG and went on to spend four years at the club.
Bolton were never title challengers during Okocha's time at the club and the closest they came to winning a trophy was losing to Manchester United in the 2004 English Football League Cup final.
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Source: Sports.naija.ng