Yaya Toure
Country of citizenship: Ivory Coast
Club: Manchester City
Annual salary: $13.5 million
Samuel Eto’o
Country of citizenship: Cameroon
Club: Inter Milan
Annual salary: $12 million
Emmanuel Adebayor
Country of citizenship: Togo
Club: Manchester City
Annual salary: $12 million
Kolo Toure
Country of citizenship: Ivory Coast
Club: Manchester City
Annual salary: $10.3 million
Frederic Kanoute
Country of citizenship: Mali
Club: Sevilla FC
Annual salary: $8.6 million
Didier Drogba
Country of citizenship: Ivory Coast
Club: Chelsea
Annual salary: $8 million
John Mikel Obi
Country of citizenship: Nigeria
Club: Chelsea
Annual salary: $5,800,000,
Michael Essien
Country of citizenship: Ghana
Club: Chelsea
Annual salary: $5,500,000
Read the rest on Forbes
Nna Mehn!!! See wetin human being like me dey earn in a year. I think I must to play football by fire by force.
ReplyDeleteThis list is probably based on their current contracts. Yaya is the highest earning African footballer as he earns about 250K a week with Man City. Same with Adebayor as he's currently contracted to Man City.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of net worth, i'm sure it's Samuel E'too. The guy is a hard bargainer, doesn't use agents and accountants for his contracts and just has a lawyer that goes through all the legal stuff. He's been around for a while so he must have been piling up his war chest.
Ah,they should stop putting people's personal business on blast like this nowwwww ah ah! This is how they are going to call the attention of arm robbers, lazy ass family members and chicken heads galor to this people. The people revealing these salaries, how about revealing your own?! I don't like this at all, must we know how much they make? Watch the game, mind your own pay check oga journalist!
ReplyDeleteit is pounds!!U knw the get paid weekly and it doesn't add up if in dollars. :)
ReplyDeleteNice. Now they should all come and invest with me so I make my 10%.
ReplyDeleteAnon June 21, 2011 8:01 PM; Forbes always uses the dollar. It's the international trade currency. Even the Queen's wealth is written in dollars by Forbes. It's when the Times write it that they use pounds.
ReplyDeleteDidier Drogba should be higher up IMO
@anon 8.01pm: wages are quoted weekly in the media but they do NOT get paid weekly....fucking dumbass!
ReplyDeletePlease can you list which are single......
ReplyDeleteno wonder Nadia Buhari was latching onto Michael Essien for dear life! lol jk.
ReplyDelete@QueenB lol! true! I second that!
ReplyDeleteDrogba makes crazy money in endorsement where Eto'o is slacking... which makes up for his salary and makes him a higher earner at the end of the day...
ReplyDeleteNa wa o, even though i can play football, i think i must marry a footballer o,me sef wan chop money na,abi wetin u think? no abuse me o....lol
ReplyDeleteWhy then does Mikel make the LOUDEST NOISE, I even think say the idiot waz earning far more than that with the kind of NOISE he makes.
ReplyDeleteAll-the-same those guys are making chilled - str8 from the fridge cash. I soooo wish I will lay my hands on any of them, na to tie am final :lol:
Mikel earns more than Essien? Interesting...
ReplyDeleteLinda this is not a Forbes list. it's just a blog like yours. nothing to do with "the" Forbes publication itself
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