HIGHEST PAID NIGERIAN PLAYERS ABROAD

We wrote on the 2017 top 10 richest footballers in Africa in one of our previous posts and we listed the likes of Mikel, Yaya Toure, Eto etc. This time, we shall focus on who the current highest paid Nigerian footballer in the premier league this 2017 is, his salary and some fact about him. The highest paid footballer in Nigeria is Manchester City young star, Kelechi Iheanacho . He turned highest earning Super Eagles star in the English Premier League, and all of Europe when he penned another two-year contract expansion that will see stay at the Etihad until 2021. Kelechi Iheanacho’s salary a week is £85,000. With his new wages, Iheanacho toppled Super Eagles captain John Mikel Obi who for a while has been on the top flight in football with a salary of 70,000 pounds a week. Mikel currently plays for Chelsea Football Club also in the English Premier League. Recent Update 2017: Mikel now earns £140,000 weekly from his new club Tiajin Teda While describing his new improved deal as a “dream come true”, the youngster said he could now “change lives” The deal came to fruition despite Iheanacho’s new handlers being locked in an ownership tussle with the player’s previous representatives, who are based in the United States of America. Following a string of outstanding displays in his 2015/16 breakout year, his agents had initially proposed a 50,000 pounds-per- week deal, a massive shift from his former 18,000 pounds-a-week pay when he first joined the club, according to Vanguard Mikel’s compatriot at Stamford Bridge, Victor Moses salary at Chelsea FC is 50,000 pounds-a- week since joining Chelsea from Wigan Athletic in 2012, and hopes to be offered a new deal after an impressing start to the current campaign under new Chelsea boss, Antonio Conte. ALSO READ Biography Of Wole Soyinka: Africa's First Nobel Laureate Watford striker Odion Ighalo, who turned down a whopping €100,000- a-week deal to the Chinese Super league last term, is believed to have improved on his 25,000 pounds-a- week pay following a contract extension at Vicarage Road The former Golden Eaglet salary was 18,000 pounds-a-week when he first signed for Manchester City Football Club.