Manchester United Move A Dream Come True — Ighalo

By Daily Sports on February 3, 2020

Odion Ighalo has expressed his delight after sealing a switch to Manchester United on loan from Shanghai Shenhua, insisting his lifelong dream has become a reality.

Ighalo has joined the Red Devils on a temporary deal set to run until the end of the season, after a dramatic January deadline day which finally saw Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s search for a new striker come to an end.

It was widely reported that United failed with a £20 million ($26m) bid for Bournemouth’s Josh King on Friday, before turning their attention to a 30-year-old who has spent the last three years of his career in China.

After arriving in Manchester on Sunday morning, Ighalo told Sky Sports of his excitement after a “crazy” few days of negotiations and travelling: “It’s a dream come true because since I was a kid I followed and dreamt of Manchester United.

“But it is a reality now. I cannot say much more now until I get started. It’s been crazy. Obviously, I am happy to be in Manchester first of all.

“This is a great opportunity for me and I am grateful to God, and to my agent, and the coach who has given me this opportunity to be here.

“I am happy to be here and to work out with the team and finish very well this season.

“The plan is to just chill today because I travelled a very long way from Shanghai to Manchester.

“Today is to just rest and tomorrow we start to work.”

Solskjaer has described Ighalo as “a great lad” and a “good goalscorer”, and hopes he can give United a “different option” in the final third of the pitch with Marcus Rashford currently sidelined through injury. (Goal)

•PHOTO: Odion Ighalo 

Source Daily Sports

Posted February 3, 2020


 

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