West Brom Albion striker Brown Ideye has toppled Nigeria's big guns like Chelsea star Mikel Obi and Yakubu Aiyegbeni as the country's highest earning footballer in Europe. Mikel Obi in the 2012/2013.
season was Nigeria's highest paid footballer earning four million pounds a year. Yakubu Aiyegbeni with a move to Chinese club Guangzhou beat Mikel to earnings by taking home 5.4million pounds. But in an unprecedented turn of events, Brown Ideye this season beat all former big earners by penning down a 10 million pounds deal for West Brom Albion of England emerging as the highest paid Nigerian footballer.
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