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.
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.
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.
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