Striker now Nigeria’s most expensive player

Steve Dede 11:40 - 02 February 2017

10 Most Expensive Transfers Of Nigerian Players

Odion Ighalo tops the list of 20 most expensive transfer of Nigerian footballers in Europe.

Ighalo sealed a move to the Chinese club where he will earn close to £200,000 per week.

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Changchun Yatai paid €23.3m million to Watford for the 27-year-old striker making him the most expensive Nigerian player ever.

He now beats John Mikel Obi who moved to Chelsea in a 2006 €20m from Norwegian side Lyn Oslo.

Mikel’s transfer fee was for eleven years the most expensive fee paid for a Nigerian player.

Ighalo now leads the list with Mikel second.

Ahmed Musa who cost Leicester City €19.5m is the third most expensive Nigerian player while another Leicester City player, Wilfred Ndidi is fourth for €17.6m he cost the club in the January transfer window.

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Making up the fifth position is Yakubu Aiyegbeni who Everton paid €16.5m for from Middlesbrough in 2007.

Obafemi Martins cost Newcastle United €16m when they signed him from Inter Milan in 2006 and comes in sixth place while Isaac Success is in seventh place for the €15m Watford paid for him from Granada in 2016.

Emmanuel Emenike is in eighth for the €13m Fenerbahce paid for him from Spartak Moscow in 2013 while in 2014 West Brom paid €12.63m to Dynamo Kyiv for striker Brown Ideye making him the ninth most expensive Nigerian player.

Austin Okocha rounds up the top 10 with the €12.4m Paris Saint-Germain paid for him from Fenerbahçe in 1998.

List of most expensive Nigerian players

1.Odion Ighalo – Watford to Changchun Yatai- €23.3m

2.Obi Mikel – Lyn Oslo to Chelsea – €20m