Nigerian footballers, like their colleagues all over the world, are considered to be high earners.
However, many do not know in real terms how much these guys earn. For this Pulse List, we look at the top 15 highest-paid Nigerian players.
It’s not easy getting the real numbers so Pulse has done a lot of research on the internet, interviews with some agents and sports business experts to come up with this list.
This is the most authentic list of this kind you would find anyway because of the work that was put towards it.
1. Odion Ighalo/Manchester United-£130,000 (N71M)
Striker Odion Ighalo might have been on top of this list by a wider margin if he never took a pay cut to join Manchester United on loan from Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua in January 2020.
Instead of the £300,000 per week wage he was on in China, the 30-year-old took an almost 44% pay cut to join Manchester United on a £130,000 per week deal.
Ighalo will play for Manchester United until January 2021 after he extended his loan deal.
2. Victor Moses/Chelsea, Inter-£110,000 (N60M)
Victor Moses is a well-travelled footballer but while he has been in Turkey and now Italy while on loan from Chelsea, his wages remains £110,000 per week when he got when he signed an extension with the London club in March 2017.
Moses had spent five years at Chelsea at that time and was enjoying a fine run with the side under Italian manager Antonio Conte. As a crucial member of Conte’s team, the Nigerian was given a new contract which assured him a weekly wage of £110,000.
He has been on that pay while he played for Fenerbahce and Inter on loan from Chelsea. That contract runs out in the summer of 2021.
3. Wilfried Ndidi/Leicester City-£75,000 (N41M)
Nigerian midfielder Wilfred Ndidi has enjoyed a remarkable career in the Premier League with Leicester City. Ndidi joined the Foxes in January 2017 and was good right away.
Since then, he has proven to be one of the most consistent midfielders in the whole of Europe. He was rewarded with a six-year contract in August 2018. With that contract, the 23-year-old is on £75,000 per week.
4. Ahmed Musa/Al-Nassr-£60,000 (N33M)
After impressing in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Suadi Arabian went all out to get Nigerian forward Ahmed Musa.
Musa had not been a success in the Premier League and Leicester City were more than happy to get more than the club record £16.6 million that they had signed the Nigerian for. That was how highly Al Nassr rated the Nigerian forward.
The club also gave the Nigerian a deal that would earn him £60, 000 on a weekly basis.
5. Kelechi Iheanacho/Leicester City-£60,000 (32.9M)
Kelechi Iheanancho joined Leicester City in the summer of 2017 as a highly-rated teenager for the reported sum of £25 million. The striker was put on a weekly salary of £60000 which makes him one of the top-earning Nigerian players.
There’s a report from the UK Sun that suggests that the Nigeria international earns more than £100,000 per week but that sum has not been quoted anywhere else.
6. Alex Iwobi/Everton-£50,000 (N27.3M)
Nigerian midfielder Alex Iwobi in the summer of 2019 left his boyhood club Arsenal to join Everton. The move didn’t give Iwobi a bigger pay, instead, he remained on the same weekly salary he was at Arsenal.
7. Moses Simon/Nantes-€37,500 (N18.3M)
Nigerian forward Moses Simon in the summer of 2019 joined Nantes on loan from Spanish side Levante. He remained on his €37,500 per week which he was at Levante to become the highest-paid player at Nantes.
After impressing while on loan and finishing the 2019/2020 season as the club’s Player of the Year, Simon was given a permanent contract based on that same salary.
8. Ola Aina/Torino-€35,500 (N17.1M)
Coming through the ranks at a club like Chelsea and being on the fringes of the first team gives kind of increases your value which goes on to aid your career. This is what happened to Ola Aina who got a €35,500 per week deal when he joined Torino from Chelsea.
9. Isaac Success/Watford- £30,000 (N16.4M)
Isaac Success joined Watford in the summer of 2016 after coming through at Spanish side Granada. He was put on £30,000 per week. He hasn’t delivered at all at Watford but playing in the Premier League means his wage is not an issue for the club. That said, he is expected to leave Watford after this season.
10. Henry Onyekuru/Monaco, Galatasaray- €32, 500 (N16M)
Monaco have one of the highest wage bills in Ligue 1 and Nigerian forward Henry Onyekuru enjoys the benefit of that. Onyekuru joined Monaco in the summer of 2019. Despite leaving on loan to Galatasary, the Nigerian is still on his €32, 500 per week salary.
Note: Conversion rate; N1= £557, €498
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