With just over a million euros in monthly salary, Moroccan Achraf Hakimi is the highest paid African player in the French football championship, according to the newspaper. The Team.
There is PSG and the others. With 11 players out of the 30 best paid in the French championship, the wealthy Parisian club sits at the top of the remuneration in Ligue 1. this rankingrevealed each year by the newspaper L’Équipe, the first African is the Moroccan Achraf Hakimi, in sixth place, with 1.08 million euros, far from the emoluments of the Mbappé trio (6 million euros), Neymar ( 3.6 million) and Messi (3.3 million).
The Atlas Lion is still widening the gap with its neighbors on the African podium, the Ivorian Éric Bailly (450,000 euros) and his teammate at OM Chancel Mbemba (320,000 euros). In the top 10 of the best African countries are three Ivorians (Bailly, Nicolas Pépé and Seko Fofana). After the departures from the French championship of Idrissa Guèye and Abdou Diallo, only one player represents Senegal in this classification: Krépin Diatta.
Note the big leap of Nigerian Terem Moffi who earned less than 100,000 euros in Lorient and who now receives 275,000 euros after his transfer to Nice.
The Top 10 highest paid African players in Ligue 1 (in euros)
1. Achraf Hakimi (PSG / Morocco) €1,083,000
2. Eric Bailly (OM/Ivory Coast) €450,000
3. Mbemba (OM/DR Congo) €320,000
4. Nicolas Pépé (Nice/Ivory Coast) 300,000
5. Terem Moffi (Nice/Nigeria) 275,0000
6. Toko Ekambi (Rennes/Cameroon) 270,000
7. Krepin Diatta (Monaco/Senegal) 200,000
8. Seko Fofana (Lens/Ivory Coast) 190,000
9. Andy Delort (Nantes/Algeria) 180,000
10. Wahbi Khazri (Montpellier/Tunisia) 180,000