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Kelechi Iheanacho Is Officially Nigeria’s Highest-Earning Footballer Now Been Paid A Whopping £85,000 (₦42Million) Per Week

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Manchester City wonder kid Kelechi Iheanacho has become Nigeria’s highest earning footballer in the English Premier League, and indeed all of Europe, as he now enjoys an £85,000-a-week (N42m) take home pay.

With his new bumper pay, Iheanacho has eclipsed Super Eagles skipper John Mikel Obi who has long been Nigeria’s highest footie earner following his move to Chelsea 10 years ago and is presently on 70,000 (N38m) pounds a week.

This comes after the 19-year-old put pen to paper on a new two-year contract extension that will keep him at the Etihad until 2021.

While describing the new and improved deal as a “dream come true”, the youngster said he could now “change the lives” of his family.

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 demanded a staggering 150,000 pounds-a-week deal, a massive shift from his modest 18,000 pounds-a-week pay when he first joined the club, Vanguard writes.

Mikel’s compatriot at Stamford Bridge, Victor Moses bagged a 50,000 pounds-a-week deal when he joined Chelsea from Wigan Athletic in 2012, and will be looking for an improved offer after an impressive start to the current campaign under 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.

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245 comments

  1. Abraham Nnamdi Jeremiah

    Life na turn table

  2. Otunba Christopher Oyekanmi Oyesiku

    Thts rubbish he gets £15k a wk

  3. Odo Samson Onyemaeze

    Its a destiny

  4. Lol….can’t help but laugh..you are on point jare

  5. Sylvester Idahosa

    Uju Bibi Okonkwo , just want to commend u for d display of good up-bringing u show-cased in one of ur replies to an embarasing que where somebody asked if u wanted d kid to come & marry u. I never knew we still have a Nigerian lady who’s as descipline as this, God Almighty will bless u, most esspecially ur parents, for d good nuture, am not only swept-off my feet, am dumb-founded too, bcos it’s so amazing, un-believable, miraculous, e,t,c. I could go on & on bcos there’s no amount of words that will be said as over-emphasizing this award-winning display from u, u are not just a rare-gem, but also an Angel of God. Once again God bless u & ur entire families, Amen & Amen IJMN.

  6. Sylvester Idahosa

    This shows that Nigeria still have few virtious ladies out there.

  7. Sylvester Idahosa

    This shows that Nigeria still have few virtious ladies out there.

  8. Ikenna Fabian Finlay

    Hard working pays………really deserves it

  9. Ikenna Fabian Finlay

    Hard working pays………really deserves it

  10. Youngdestiny FathersGold holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die… you aren’t the only igbo here.. stop acting as though Ojukwu was your uncle. Be sensitive and perspicacious for once. Stop behaving as though they exchanged your sanity for a plate of jollof!

  11. Youngdestiny FathersGold holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die… you aren’t the only igbo here.. stop acting as though Ojukwu was your uncle. Be sensitive and perspicacious for once. Stop behaving as though they exchanged your sanity for a plate of jollof!

  12. Hon Adewuyi Adejare

    Some among igbo are idioticly stupid

  13. Hon Adewuyi Adejare

    Some among igbo are idioticly stupid

  14. Thats is pure truth….. All haters should just drink kill nd dry

  15. Thats is pure truth….. All haters should just drink kill nd dry

  16. Gabriel Ugo Maxi

    e no easy

  17. Gabriel Ugo Maxi

    e no easy

  18. #35m per week and not #42m

  19. #35m per week and not #42m

  20. U dey funny

  21. Facebook founder was a billionaire before he reached 22! Finance and Tech students can make billions.

  22. Tobey Daniels Ezike I jst made sense of what u said about so much money being wasted on sports…. 42million naira per week

  23. Oduma Rowland Ossy

    Chisos… See blood money without ritualU0001f628

  24. Felix Sesan Abel

    See the level wey our currency don useless reach! £85,000 equivalent to N42,000,000. Na wao!

  25. Felix Sesan Abel

    See the level wey our currency don useless reach! £85,000 equivalent to N42,000,000. Na wao!

  26. Amen . I claim it with faith in jesus name

  27. Oduma Rowland Ossy

    Football age U0001f602

  28. Okeji Livinus TChukwuemeka

    But taxation cripples this whooping sum.

  29. Okeji Livinus TChukwuemeka

    But taxation cripples this whooping sum.

  30. dis guy must be from anambra. change your sense of reasoning

  31. Tobey Daniels Ezike

    its just sad

  32. Fred Villars Lampard

    So we should start crying?

  33. 42 million a week.U0001f632U0001f632U0001f632U0001f632U0001f632U0001f632U0001f632U0001f632

  34. God bless you brother

  35. over flow of God’s blessing

  36. Kingsley Udochukwu Okwuoma

    Omo, same here o

  37. Okechukwu Chukwuemeka Nwankwo

    I wonder why sahara is making this noise about who earns more than the otherz? Its like there is nothing else to report abi? Useless set of people.

  38. Emeka Okpalaku Emeka Samuel

    AMEN and you too, brother

  39. Jude Pierce Kudjordji

    With the way he’s been playing . He deserves it . Not even surprised

  40. Did guy don hamar

  41. I’m still so pissed that in this modern age one can remain so daft and hyper-unreasonable. It’s people like you that turn terrorists. Look at the amount of hate in your heart. There are other Igbo’s here too. If Biafra comes fine, and if it doesn’t better. I’m Igbo too so please shut that smoke belching, heat radiating, odour emitting and phlegm spurting vent you call a mouth.

  42. The guy deserves it i wish him more success in future

  43. I pray for more grace for him to do what other players can not do

  44. Bright Fiifi Sunday

    youngdestiny or watever u call urself u are such a disgrace to the human race…maggots like u always cause conflicts..

  45. Bright Fiifi Sunday

    u are so immatured…..wake up from ur slumber..u dey bore me sef…somebody somwer ix earning his money n u are here…claiming titles..for ur stupid ass…

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