Yaya Toure is African Players with Highest Paid

With pay per year is estimated at $ 13.3 million, Yaya Toure stood at the top of the list of footballers from the continent of Africa with the highest salary of U.S. business magazine, Forbes.

Ivory Coast midfielder who graze at Manchester City ahead of Inter Milan striker, Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon), and two colleagues at the City of Manchester, Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo) and Kolo Toure, who incidentally is also the older brother of Yaya.

Interesting facts from the top eight names were released were only two figures who played outside the Premier League, namely Frederic Kanoute (Mali) who take part in La Liga with Sevilla, and of course Eto'o who make a living in Serie A Italy.

In addition, six persona recorded playing in the Premier League is only derived from the two clubs. Just as the City, Chelsea also contributed three players in the list, Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast), John Obi Mikel (Nigeria), and Michael Essien (Ghana).

One more decent bottom line is four players with the biggest reward is an award winning African Player of the Year: Eto'o, Adebayor, Kanoute, and Drogba, as well as three players had at least a nomination.

Which has never been nominated is Mikel, but he annexed boon African Young Player in 2005 and 2006.

Here's a list of players with the highest salary

1. Yaya Toure : $ 13,300,000
2. Samuel Eto'o : $ 12,000,000
3. Emmanuel Adebayor : $ 12,000,000
4. Kolo Toure : $ 10,300,000
5. Frederic Kanoute : $ 8,600,000
6. Didier Drogba : $ 8,000,000
7. John Obi Mikel : $ 5,800,000
8. 8 Michael Essien : $ 5,500,000. (*)

Source : tribunnews.com