Ndidi Tops Nigeria’s Most Valuable Players’ Latest Rankings At €45m

Leicester City of England midfielder, Wilfred Onyinyen Ndidi has been rated as Nigeria’s most valuable player of the moment, following latest figures that put his current market value at €45m, BSNSports.com.ng reports That puts Ndidi, who is currently out injured, ahead of SSC Napoli of Italy’s costliest signing ever, Victor Osimhen, who has a rate card of €40m on the latest valuation of Nigerian players, while third place goes to Everton of England’s Alex Iwobi at €25.5m on the log. This is part of permutations for Nigeria’s best 11 starting line-up on the latest financial charts made available by Transfermarkt, which at the weekend published a hypothetic best 11 squad of Nigeria’s current most expensive players in various field positions. Overall, the Super Eagles’ best financial starting 11 is worth €161.40m (which is about N86.3bn), with Ndidi the most expensive at €45m; with Iwobi as well as Reading’s Omatsone ‘Sone’ Aluko (€0.8m), West Bromwich Albion’s Semi Ajayi (€5m), Fulham’s Ola Aina (€7m) all cited among the England-based lot. Villarreal of Spain winger, Samuel Chukwueze, at €25m, is fought-highest on the rate card that also has Kaizer Chiefs of South Africa goalkeeper, Daniel Akpeyi (€0.6m), FC Porto of Portugal left-back, Zaidu Sanusi (€2.5m), Boavista of Portugal central defender, Chidozie Awaziem (€6m) and Galatasaray of Turkey midfielder, Oghenekaro Etebo (€4m).