Makes sense right? Its a loan move, so you cant afford to bed him in for next season.
Odion Ighalo - 6 month loan deal done
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Makes sense right? Its a loan move, so you cant afford to bed him in for next season.
Absolutely. If he doesn't do it, he is gone in a few months. Having said that, Manchester United Football Club should not be involved in undignified scramblings to find someone at the last minute. I mean we knew there was a vacancy up front when Lukaku said he was off.
Well it can't be helped I guess. He's really ours now. Oh well, best of luck to him and let's just hope he will prove us wrong and turn out well even if I am predicting the opposite but it's useless to moan now that he has become our player. Hopefully he does well here.
The moaning on here is off the scale and so boring.. We have signed Bruno Fernandez the best player in Portugal and a cover striker in the January window. bloody great news. we still have a chance of top 4 if Bruno hits the ground running and pogba gets fit soon... optimism Reigns.
Our Hollywood signs have not worked out too well. So lets try a different tack.
If we had of signed Haaland we would have had some on here moaning about him getting in the way of Greenwood's process or some nonsense. People will always find something to moan about.
Sounds like you’re suggesting his actually better?
We fecked up on Haaland. So even in the upcoming Summer, we are on our Plan B.
Moaning/hysterics seems to be the in thing nowadays.
what a spectacular fall from grace, and a reality check for those who think project-Ole is our best way back to the top...
Jose attracted Zlatan and Pogba here. LVG convinced the likes of Di Maria, Falcao & Basti.... Ole failed to get Haarland (who played under him!) failed to get a 27 year old Norwegian United reject from Bournemouth... so settled for a 30 year old ex-Watford player from the Chinese league who shares his agent...to replace the 20 goal top flight 26 year old he sold in the summer!
But apparently we shouldn’t even dare to expect more...lest we be spoiled, or unbecoming of a true fan!
Welcome to Man Utd 2020.
And how did those work out?
This is probably the happiest I've been after a transfer window for a good few years now.
We entered the window needing an attacking midfielder and a back up striker... We've finished the window with both positions covered, how many times can we say that?
Jose attracted Zlatan and Pogba here. LVG convinced the likes of Di Maria, Falcao & Basti.... Ole failed to get Haarland (who played under him!) failed to get a 27 year old Norwegian United reject from Bournemouth... so settled for a 30 year old ex-Watford player from the Chinese league who shares his agent...to replace the 20 goal top flight 26 year old he sold in the summer!
But apparently we shouldn’t even dare to expect more!...lest we be spoiled, nay, unbecoming of a true fan!
Welcome to Man Utd 2020.
Not much point arguing the case here as you seem fully balls deep into the Ole Out/Everything Man Utd do is cr*p brigade
But United rejected Haalands stupidly low release clause that Raiola wanted inserted into the contract - it’s £68M
Hence why the bigger clubs like Us & Juventus rejected if and a feeder club like Dortmund accepted the deal
Plus i remember something IIRC that Raoila wanted a HUGE agents fee too?
We've had many transfers where people questioned the player's desire to play for United. Ighalo is a massive United fan, that much I can confirm with inside knowledge. Rejected Spurs and pretty much whoever else was going to ask once he heard we were interested. Going by those previous yardsticks, that should make this a good transfer under the terms right?
Ignore the moaning guys. Even in Bruno’s thread there were tonnes of idiots moaning about how he is not good enough or how any farmer can get his stats in the Portuguese League. This place is dumb like that.
This.
Ole Out brigade are so blinded by their hatred they can't see straight anymore.
Hard to believe it's not Coleee
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Eddy Woodward has bought Ighalo
He’s way better than you
And a red through and through
And he’s got the chinese flue
I’m happy with this.....this is a low cost short term fix - big strong forward, something we don’t currently have so gives a different option - this doesn’t affect long term plans and we’ve got someone that has had PL experience and done ok - also, very importantly he is a Utd fan so will give 110% every time he is asked - something that many of our current players haven’t done this season.
might not be the big name some were hoping for but let’s not forget all the big names, bar Zlatan, that we have signed in recent times have all been shite for us.
if you’d told me 5 days ago that we would have Bruno and Ighalo by the end of the window I’d have bitten your hand off - I fully expected nothing!
Beggars can’t be choosers!
might not be the big name some were hoping for but let’s not forget all the big names, bar Zlatan, that we have signed in recent times have all been shite for us.
if you’d told me 5 days ago that we would have Bruno and Ighalo by the end of the window I’d have bitten your hand off - I fully expected nothing!
Beggars can’t be choosers!
good business, most of the fan base seem happy, only the lads that signed timo werner in fifa and can see how easy it is arent happy
Taking heart from the fact Haaland was first choice and so after missing we have brought in a temp solution whilst we wait for another top player rather than spunking £30-40m on our second or third choice.
If he gets us three points we otherwise would have dropped, it’s worth the loan fee.
If he gets us three points we otherwise would have dropped, it’s worth the loan fee.
Ighalo!
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Is wonderful!
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Ighalo is wonderful!
He's eaten rats, bats and hedgehogs
Ighalo is wonderful!
Our Hollywood signings didn’t work out because they didn’t work out. Not because they were or weren’t sufficiently “Hollywood”... We can’t not sign high profile players anymore, just because some of them didn’t work! (and many would say the same applies to managers)... by that logic we’d never have bought Ronaldo or Rooney after Veron flopped?... or indeed anyone after Gary Birtles!
The unfortunate reasoning behind this kind of excuse making attitude, is that Ole simply isn’t a remotely attractive notion for big players...the kind of players we’ll eventually need to attract at least a few of. But are for some reason pretending we won’t? Or that that we somehow will be able to, against all current evidence...
I mean, even the big Norwegian players aren’t convinced by him. Even when they’ve played for him! Hence why we’re scraping the barrel for a 30 year old from the fecking Chinese league who shares his agent, and are being told to clap and dance and be grateful for it, because apparently that’s all we deserve now!
Dance little bitches, dance!!! That’s it!! La di la do la la... lap it up!
Feck it, we needed a back up and were stuck trying to bring someone in during a notoriously difficult window. No, he's not a long-term option but past mistakes led us to this or Josh King, so he'll do.
Bruno and Ighalo is feckin' excellent business. Can. Not. Wait. To see Bruno in that shirt tomorrow! Ighalo is a welcome addition - lots of people in the game say only good things about him and he's a huge United fan with a terrific work rate. Excellent business.
Welcome. I hope you fulfill your bigest childhood dreams
15 goals he got 45 appearances last season for United. Its 2020 under Woodward who was keen to sign Ighalo when LVG was manager.
Jose attracted Zlatan and Pogba here. LVG convinced the likes of Di Maria, Falcao & Basti.... Ole failed to get Haarland (who played under him!) failed to get a 27 year old Norwegian United reject from Bournemouth... so settled for a 30 year old ex-Watford player from the Chinese league who shares his agent...to replace the 20 goal top flight 26 year old he sold in the summer!
But apparently we shouldn’t even dare to expect more...lest we be spoiled, or unbecoming of a true fan!
Welcome to Man Utd 2020.
Your friends knows that Cavani doesn't want to come to England, Chelsea would never sell us Giroud, and Chelsea tried to sign Mertens and was rejected, yes? No chance in hell we could get him on a loan to buy deal anyway.
We aren't picking up a player to be a permanent fixture in this side. It's a temporary solution to an injury problem. If he does really well then who knows? But he isn't who we plan to go into next season with.
Weirdly, I’m actually not... well, not entirely...
I just find this particular transfer absolutely hilarious.... and subsequently the desperation to pretend it isn’t somehow super sonically bat shit mental, genuinely tickes me.
I mean, come on now! Think about it?.... it’s right up there with the silliest of them really, isn’t it?
A 30 yo from the Chinese League! FML... as they say.
Jesus wept, all this 2 days after we signed the second highest profile player we have ever signed in the January window.
When Real Madrid needed backup and signed Faubert on loan did that mean that they had lost all appeal as a club?
Which ironically would be a worse goal to game ratio than Ighalo had for Watford.
I agree, well said, we're hardly in a position to be fussy.
Yeah and how well did that all work out? Maybe a different and hungry approach is needed?
Jose attracted Zlatan and Pogba here. LVG convinced the likes of Di Maria, Falcao & Basti.... Ole failed to get Haarland (who played under him!) failed to get a 27 year old Norwegian United reject from Bournemouth... so settled for a 30 year old ex-Watford player from the Chinese league who shares his agent...to replace the 20 goal top flight 26 year old he sold in the summer!
But apparently we shouldn’t even dare to expect more...lest we be spoiled, or unbecoming of a true fan!
Welcome to Man Utd 2020.
No (and a good point tbf) but we all laughed our asses off at them when they did it though, didn’t we?
I thought Odeon were cinemas.
So will Martial play on the left now because I believe he is a much better player there
Likely but also Ighalo is probably going to be on the bench mostly.
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