There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle - the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.
To play along alongside Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, or Franck Ribery is an honour for any footballer.
I definitely want to be successful in the Champions League, having never been involved in it before. It's where the best players prove themselves.
Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are two players that, the way I see it, can have a spot amongst the best of all time.
Messi and Ronaldo are the toughest. But I would also place Eden Hazard of Chelsea, Neymar of Barcelona, and Karim Benzema of Real Madrid on the list.
At the FIFA World Player of the Year event, FIFA executives and FIFA president Sepp Blatter didn't know who I was. And I was being honored as top three in the world. That was pretty shocking.
I think just playing in the Champions League is a big motivation. When you hear the hymn or the song of the Champions League, it's a big motivation for every player.
Everyone wants to play at the top level - everyone wants to play in the biggest tournaments in the world - so, obviously, the Champions League is one.
You've got two huge clubs in Manchester that have got 'celebrity' managers, huge resources, massive turnovers. They can generate resources the rest of us can only imagine, and that's before the TV money even kicks in.
To sum it up, I would say that the Premier League is football's NBA.
