Samson Tijani's Family, Collins Edwin SC To Pocket N585M From Transfer Of Nigeria U17 Captain To Salzburg

Published: February 12, 2020

Allnigeriasoccer.com can exclusively report that Samson Tijani's family and Collins Edwin SC will hit the jackpot from the upcoming transfer of the Golden Eagles captain to Red Bull Salzburg in the summer.

As broken by this website a week ago, Tijani has inked a five-year contract with the Austrian Bundesliga champions which will start running with effect from June 2020 when he would have attained the age of majority.

Excluding the agency commission paid to the intermediary (names withheld) that represented Tijani during negotiations and the player's wages over the duration of his contract, the total transfer fee is 1.5 million euros (approximately N585 million in Nigerian currency).

Samson Tijani's family headed by his father, Bashiru Tijani, will receive 500,000 euros from Red Bull Salzburg and Collins Edwin SC are entitled to one million euros.

An agreement has been reached that will see a high-ranking board member of the Nigeria Football Federation based in Lagos, Dotun Coker, who is the Chairman Technical Committee Lagos State Football Association, Siji Lagunju of the NFF Technical Department and Chief Joseph Uzoma Ebowusim receive monetary payments for the transfer of the defensive midfielder.

For agreeing to do the bidding of the Nigerian Federation chieftain, Tijani has been promised an automatic spot on the next Flying Eagles roster.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel

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