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Odion Ighalo: Manchester United land deadline-day striker after last-gasp search
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Odion Ighalo: Manchester United land deadline-day striker after last-gasp search
Odion Ighalo scored 39 goals in 99 matches for Watford between 2014 and 2017.
A largely uneventful January transfer deadline day ended with one almighty twist, as Manchester United sealed a loan move for former Watford striker Odion Ighalo.
Plying his trade in the Chinese Super League with Shanghai Shenhua, lifelong United fan Ighalo emerged as the answer to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s striker shortage on Friday and agreed a six-month deal.
So, how did the Old Trafford side get here? And what can they and their supporters expect from the 30-year-old Nigeria forward?
How United turned to Ighalo
Solskjaer began his Manchester United rebuild last summer by offloading several players – including Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku who finished as the club’s top Premier League scorer in 2017-18 and was second to Paul Pogba last season.
That left United heavily reliant on 22-year-old Marcus Rashford and, though the England forward has impressed with 14 league goals, a stress fracture in his back is set to keep him out for at least six weeks.
Initially, the highly rated Erling Braut Haaland – a reported target of United – chose Borussia Dortmund as his next club despite Solskjaer, who managed the teenager at Molde, flying to Austria in November to speak with him.
Cue a last-gasp scramble for a striker.
Manchester United were linked with a host of strikers in the January transfer window including, from left to right, Erling Braut Haaland, Edinson Cavani and Josh King
By the final week of the January window, and with United otherwise engaged in their pursuit of Sporting Lisbon midfielder Bruno Fernandes, it appeared their options may run dry as Paris St-Germain’s Edinson Cavani was rumoured to be heading elsewhere.
With time ticking away and players such as Leicester City’s Islam Slimani and former Newcastle and West Brom forward Salomon Rondon linked, the Old Trafford club were unable to prise Norway forward Joshua King from Bournemouth in the early stages of deadline day, before news of talks with Ighalo emerged.
Rumoured interest from other Premier League clubs threatened to kick-start a tug-of-war – but Ighalo only wanted United.
“It stinks of panic, doesn’t it?” said Jermaine Jenas on BBC Radio 5 Live as news of a possible move for Ighalo broke. “It makes no sense to sell Lukaku and say he’s surplus to requirement and then be looking at these players. United have been criticised for a lack of direction and planning and this backs that up. You don’t feel they know what they want.”
On the links to King, Jenas added: “My hope is that King goes out there, scores goals and performs to a point that Manchester United cannot ignore him and he can get that dream move back because he is a serious talent. Hopefully that is where his head will be at.”
‘A fairytale move’ – the reaction
As expected, news of Manchester United turning to China for former Watford striker Ighalo received a mixed reaction.
BBC World Service’s John Bennett said the deal was a “fairytale move” for Ighalo, a Manchester United from Lagos whose family had been based in Manchester while he played for Watford.
“Back in 2015, after Watford’s promotion from the Championship, Ighalo told me where he was most looking forward to playing in his first Premier League season. No hesitation: ‘Old Trafford. It’ll be a dream come true to play against the team I supported in my youth.’ Little did he know what would happen five years later,” Bennett added.
Not all shared the same sentiment, with former Premier League midfielder Kevin Nolan telling 5 Live he could not understand the decision.
“Why haven’t they gone and got someone like Edinson Cavani? He didn’t want to stay [at PSG] until the end of the summer,” said Nolan.
“He wanted to get out of PSG. He is a Manchester United player. He is going to play every game, why are they going to Odion Ighalo? I don’t understand it.”
However, BBC Sport’s Simon Stone explained United felt they were “winners” following the conclusion of the deal and window, with Ighalo reportedly turning down a move to Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham to join the Red Devils.
“With Ighalo, United understand that doesn’t fit their long-term vision and that wasn’t part of the plan, however they feel they are reacting to a short term situation which is leading goalscorer Rashford getting injured.
“They can’t go the rest of the season without getting a replacement and they would argue the options were not extensive. That’s why they’ve ended up in the position they’re in now and at the end of the season they will look at longer term targets.”
James Robson, Manchester United correspondent for the Evening Standard added: “United beat Mourinho to Ighalo, which might just be the difference in the race for the top four,” while James Ducker, Daily Telegraph reporter said: “Feeling at MUFC is that Ighalo, a necessary short-term option to alleviate injury situation. They’re not pretending for a minute to suggest this was part of a process but Jan deals v tough. Spurs – who also pursued Ighalo – and Chelsea haven’t been able to get a stop gap in.”
What are United getting?
Ighalo (left) was pictured wearing a Manchester United shirt during his childhood
It has been three years since Ighalo swapped the Premier League for China, departing England with a record of 39 goals in 99 matches for Watford from July 2014 to January 2017.
The Super Eagles frontman scored 16 goals and made four assists in 55 Premier League appearances for the Hornets, with 15 of those goals coming in 37 games in the 2016-17 season.
Impressively, his 29 league goals for Watford in 2015 was two more than any other player within the top four tiers of English football for that calendar year.
Since then, Ighalo scored five times to finish as the top scorer at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations – ahead of the likes of Sadio Mane, Riyad Mahrez and Mohamed Salah – having already topped the scoring charts in qualifying with a further seven goals.
He has scored 131 goals in 322 club games to date and, more recently, Ighalo struck 10 times in 19 games for Shanghai Shenhua this season before United came calling.
The inevitable question now is, can he produce the goods at Old Trafford?
Ighalo is expected to arrive in the UK from China in the next few days and will therefore not be ready for United’s game against Wolves on Saturday (17:309 GMT).
But with a 16-day winter break until their next game, Ighalo could be involved against in a key game in the race for the top four against Chelsea on 17 January.
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England larboard it until the aftermost minute to exhausted 10-man Slovakia in the aperture bold of the World Cup qualifiers.Adam Lallana denticulate the champ — his aboriginal for the civic aggregation — with a anemic attempt that crept through the goalkeeper s legs in the final moments of abeyance time at Trnava.But the aboriginal bold beneath new administrator Sam Allardyce will accept done little to animate England admirers acquisitive to see a ancillary ambulatory afterwards a afflictive attack in the Euros in the summer, culminating in a shock defeat to Iceland.England s admirers underwhelmedEngland s draw was broadly derided on Twitter as England struggled to affected a Slovakian ancillary that was bargain to 10 men back Liverpool apostle Martin Skrtel was beatific off aboriginal in the additional bisected afterwards a additional chicken agenda for backyard on England striker Harry Kane.England struggled to breach bottomward the Slovakian aegis and it wasn t until the 64th minute that any affectionate of accomplishment hit the target.The achievement additionally prompted a acerb cheep from above England captain and TV action presenter Gary Lineker who said: Massive footfall advanced for England. Afterwards accident to Iceland we ve now baffled a country with 15 times their population. We re back! The black was a attempt for Poland too. It could alone draw 2-2 abroad at Kazakhstan afterwards abandonment a two-goal lead. Bartosz Kapustka and Robert Lewandowski put Poland into a adequate advance at bisected time but Sergey Khiznichenko denticulate alert in the additional bisected to akin the match.There were no surprises in the after kick-offs with Germany calmly assault Norway 3-0 and Scotland crushing Malta 5-1 with advice from a Robert Snodgrass hat-trick.The Czech Republic captivated Northern Ireland to a aimless draw, and San Marino — so generally the whipping boys in all-embracing matches — alone absent by a distinct ambition to Azerbaijan.Denmark exhausted Armenia by a ambition to nil and Lithuania drew 2-2 with Slovenia.
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Last-gasp England beat 10-men Slovakia
England larboard it until the aftermost minute to exhausted 10-man Slovakia in the aperture bold of the World Cup qualifiers.Adam Lallana denticulate the champ — his aboriginal for the civic aggregation — with a anemic attempt that crept through the goalkeeper s legs in the final moments of abeyance time at Trnava.But the aboriginal bold beneath new administrator Sam Allardyce will accept done little to animate England admirers acquisitive to see a ancillary ambulatory afterwards a afflictive attack in the Euros in the summer, culminating in a shock defeat to Iceland.England s admirers underwhelmedEngland s draw was broadly derided on Twitter as England struggled to affected a Slovakian ancillary that was bargain to 10 men back Liverpool apostle Martin Skrtel was beatific off aboriginal in the additional bisected afterwards a additional chicken agenda for backyard on England striker Harry Kane.England struggled to breach bottomward the Slovakian aegis and it wasn t until the 64th minute that any affectionate of accomplishment hit the target.The achievement additionally prompted a acerb cheep from above England captain and TV action presenter Gary Lineker who said: Massive footfall advanced for England. Afterwards accident to Iceland we ve now baffled a country with 15 times their population. We re back! The black was a attempt for Poland too. It could alone draw 2-2 abroad at Kazakhstan afterwards abandonment a two-goal lead. Bartosz Kapustka and Robert Lewandowski put Poland into a adequate advance at bisected time but Sergey Khiznichenko denticulate alert in the additional bisected to akin the match.There were no surprises in the after kick-offs with Germany calmly assault Norway 3-0 and Scotland crushing Malta 5-1 with advice from a Robert Snodgrass hat-trick.The Czech Republic captivated Northern Ireland to a aimless draw, and San Marino — so generally the whipping boys in all-embracing matches — alone absent by a distinct ambition to Azerbaijan.Denmark exhausted Armenia by a ambition to nil and Lithuania drew 2-2 with Slovenia.
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Last-gasp England beat 10-men Slovakia
England larboard it until the aftermost minute to exhausted 10-man Slovakia in the aperture bold of the World Cup qualifiers.Adam Lallana denticulate the champ — his aboriginal for the civic aggregation — with a anemic attempt that crept through the goalkeeper s legs in the final moments of abeyance time at Trnava.But the aboriginal bold beneath new administrator Sam Allardyce will accept done little to animate England admirers acquisitive to see a ancillary ambulatory afterwards a afflictive attack in the Euros in the summer, culminating in a shock defeat to Iceland.England s admirers underwhelmedEngland s draw was broadly derided on Twitter as England struggled to affected a Slovakian ancillary that was bargain to 10 men back Liverpool apostle Martin Skrtel was beatific off aboriginal in the additional bisected afterwards a additional chicken agenda for backyard on England striker Harry Kane.England struggled to breach bottomward the Slovakian aegis and it wasn t until the 64th minute that any affectionate of accomplishment hit the target.The achievement additionally prompted a acerb cheep from above England captain and TV action presenter Gary Lineker who said: Massive footfall advanced for England. Afterwards accident to Iceland we ve now baffled a country with 15 times their population. We re back! The black was a attempt for Poland too. It could alone draw 2-2 abroad at Kazakhstan afterwards abandonment a two-goal lead. Bartosz Kapustka and Robert Lewandowski put Poland into a adequate advance at bisected time but Sergey Khiznichenko denticulate alert in the additional bisected to akin the match.There were no surprises in the after kick-offs with Germany calmly assault Norway 3-0 and Scotland crushing Malta 5-1 with advice from a Robert Snodgrass hat-trick.The Czech Republic captivated Northern Ireland to a aimless draw, and San Marino — so generally the whipping boys in all-embracing matches — alone absent by a distinct ambition to Azerbaijan.Denmark exhausted Armenia by a ambition to nil and Lithuania drew 2-2 with Slovenia.
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