How well would Ighalo have faired in this system?

UnitedSofa

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Ighalo was not a world beater but I remember his first few games for us and if was a breath of fresh air seeing him take on a man and getting on the end of things.

He didn’t score boat loads but he scored a fair amount and a few rather important goals.

Now our front line (basically just Ronaldo as Cavani is always injured) how well would Ighalo have faired in the Rangnick set up. Could he have been our super sub this season? Not expecting Ralf to have hypothetically benched Ronaldo for Ighalo but as an option, I think he’d have scored more than he did under Ole.
 
Is this an indirect jab at Ronaldo implying he’s not even at Ighalo’s level now? If so, then I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you how ridiculous that is.
 
MrEleson said:
Is this an indirect jab at Ronaldo implying he’s not even at Ighalo’s level now? If so, then I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you how ridiculous that is.
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Don’t break your arm with that stretch there mate.
 
Withnail said:
This is a bit of a bizarre one. He wasn't fit to play in the PL, let alone for United.

Plenty of strikers would do a better job.
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Difference is, we had Ighalo. We don’t have/had “plenty of other strikers”
 
UnitedSofa said:
Ighalo was not a world beater but I remember his first few games for us and if was a breath of fresh air seeing him take on a man and getting on the end of things.

He didn’t score boat loads but he scored a fair amount and a few rather important goals.

Now our front line (basically just Ronaldo as Cavani is always injured) how well would Ighalo have faired in the Rangnick set up. Could he have been our super sub this season? Not expecting Ralf to have hypothetically benched Ronaldo for Ighalo but as an option, I think he’d have scored more than he did under Ole.
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You should watch his last few games for us. He was miles off it. If you think Ronnie’s legs look shot right now, Ighalo was barely mobile. Absolutely correct in not keeping him on.
 
A reminder of another colossal waste of money for a past it striker. Can we just buy someone in their prime to fit whatever system it is?
 
Leftback99 said:
A reminder of another colossal waste of money for a past it striker. Can we just buy someone in their prime to fit whatever system it is?
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Just quoting a post I made in a previous thread, it’s mad how we’ve only signed one striker in their peak/about to hit it, post-RVP:
DWelbz19 said:
Just to add to this, the last time we signed one in their peak was Lukaku?

Ronaldo (36)
Cavani (34)
Ighalo (30)
Lukaku (24)
Ibrahimovic (34)
Falcao (28, but he literally came off the back of a huge ACL injury)

Pretty awful list
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Leftback99 said:
A reminder of another colossal waste of money for a past it striker. Can we just buy someone in their prime to fit whatever system it is?
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I mean he wasn't a waste of money at all, he was signed for a specfic purpose and he more then fulfilled that purpose.

If anything he should have appeared a bit more towards the end of the 19/20 season - he was very good for us before the first lockdown anyway.
 
I’d rather have Ighalo than Cavani at the moment. Obviously Cavani is the far superior player but he’s always bloody injured. At least Ighalo would be an option every game for Rangnick.
 
Garethw said:
I’d rather have Ighalo than Cavani at the moment. Obviously Cavani is the far superior player but he’s always bloody injured. At least Ighalo would be an option every game for Rangnick.
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100%,

It's a shame Cavani is always injured this season, last season he scored on a fairly regular basis 26 games 10 goals in the prem. A goal every 3rd game there or there abouts, can't go wrong with that. Granted a striker playing for United should have a goal every other game stats, you're not getting a goal a game unless you're prime ronaldo/Lewan/Messi.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
I mean he wasn't a waste of money at all, he was signed for a specfic purpose and he more then fulfilled that purpose.

If anything he should have appeared a bit more towards the end of the 19/20 season - he was very good for us before the first lockdown anyway.
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Over £15m for 12 months and that includes 6 months in which he barely made the squad, it was a waste of money.
 
Idxomer said:
Over £15m for 12 months and that includes 6 months in which he barely made the squad, it was a waste of money.
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Jesus! Is that how much he cost us in loan fees and wages?:eek:
 
Idxomer said:
Over £15m for 12 months and that includes 6 months in which he barely made the squad, it was a waste of money.
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Played less than 100 minutes for us in the PL.

I know people love to complain about the transfer fees of certain players (who actually contribute) but it's stuff like this where we've burnt our money.
 
Idxomer said:
Over £15m for 12 months and that includes 6 months in which he barely made the squad, it was a waste of money.
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Only because we stopped playing him.

When we actually played him with some sort of regularity for the couple of months after he signed he was more then worth the money we spent.
 
He was a solid back up CF for cup games, and his record there was decent, but IIRC correctly, he didn't score a single league goal, and that was during a period where we were playing quite well.

He was a decent short-term fix at the time, but I don't envisage him performing better individually in a team that is now performing worse than the one he was in.
 
He wasn’t too bad at first, in moments. I think the excitement of living his lifelong dream gave him some extra adrenaline and boost to his pace. His performances towards the end were dog shit though.
 
What a depressing thread, and even if it’s also weird as hell it tells us that some of our fans actually stop and think about Ighalo after all the woeful performances lately. Let me tell you something, he was absolutely crap, not at all good enough for this team or any other team in the league for that matter - especially now. Complete waste of time, wasn’t even worth the shirt and number he got, should be paying to even enter the stadium for games. Another bonkers decision made by Ole, which was of course down to ties with his very controversial agent. Remember the time he got tons of incredibly bad Norwegian players to Cardiff too? Newsflash, same agent.
 
We are certainly NOT missing on a almost finished player, who always seemed a little fat and barely ran.
We are missing a proper system put in place by a good manager and about 4-5 world class players.

Ighalo was an SOS transfer something like Henrik Larsson many years ago but without the star status.
 
Neil_Buchanan said:
He wasn’t too bad at first, in moments. I think the excitement of living his lifelong dream gave him some extra adrenaline and boost to his pace. His performances towards the end were dog shit though.
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It's to be expected that given the brevity of his time here that fans look back and don't remember all the details. Still unfair to Ighalo.

Towards the end of his time, iirc, he wasn't played much after lockdown so understandably could never get back into the rhythm of things. When he was played regularly he scored so he really wasn't a bad signing. Obviously not the level utd should have been looking for but his latter failings weren't entirely due to him not having the quality to do a job.
 
Was it against City at OT where a substitute had the best 5 minutes cameo ever in the history of football? He was virtually unplayable and taking the piss that game that day
 
SATA said:
Was it against City at OT where a substitute had the best 5 minutes cameo ever in the history of football? He was virtually unplayable and taking the piss that game that day
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Ah I remember that, he was unplayable for those 300 seconds
 
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