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Odion Ighalo - 6 month loan deal done
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
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So rather than starting games on the right you'd prefer Greenwood to be a impact sub through the middle?
And you were arguing about Greenwood not getting minutes?
Actually every Chinese traveler is currently being quarantined with 2 weeks at home or something like that. Many countries do that as of now.
He'd had a serious injury though, which he really hasn't got over.
That was a more stupid loan. Not what we needed and also had been injured.
LVG tried to build a 3-5-2 formation with slow attackers and poor balance and played Di Maria in strange roles.
Lets hope so.
Od-i-on I-gha-lo
Woah-a-woah-a-woah
Woah-a-woah-a-woah
He’s our Nigerian scoring genius
But we don’t mention his penis
Scoring all the goals
Assisting a few more
So presumably Salah, Zaha and Mahrez must have smashed this B level comp then? No way they were outscored by this 'trashbag' 'bum' that you wanted to sign a couple of years ago before your agenda got in the way. Not now he's gone to China though, the dark void surrounding it has sucked out all his talent!
Is he going to set the world alight? Course not. Is he a decent short term option? Of course. You're so entangled in showing everyone how much you hate how the club is run you are prepared to contradict your own opinion of a player. That's pretty desperate!
Not sure he was ever getting a shot this season so not worth worrying about. So long as hes getting minutes thats good enough for his 1st season.
For top players with no ambition. They dont just sign anyone.
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$4 mil? Yikes...better get us top four Ighalo.
Amazing development
Agreed, definitely not an easy transfer to get over the line. Would be impressive.
I liked him at Watford. Not the worst outcome considering who we've been linked with last couple of days.
The option to buy is an incentive to the player. "If you play out of your skin you might get a contract".
Roughly as if we’re paying 200k per game. But obviously not straight forward as that.
Or do we have to pay his salary on top?
Before it was reported as up to 4m, so probably dependant on clauses.
How is the Larsson loan in any way relevant to this discusdion?
Ravel Morrison must be the must sold player that never plays
God forbid he comes here scores plenty of unexciting goals.
Well, he's an experienced player at the wrong end of his career who's unexpectedly been offered the chance to play at his dream club. I suspect he'll give it his all for us.
People just like to give examples from Fergie days for pretty much every current situation to prove the club is currently doing alright or something.
I'm pissing myself laughing at people being annoyed at us having an option to buy as part of the deal. Why on earth are people mad about that aspect?! If he's good we sign him, if he's not, we don't, its not complex.
Goals are goals. If it translates to points on the table we can't really complain at this point. Top four is still up for grabs.
I think it's more of an incentive for him anyway. Definitely nothing to get annoyed about.
I too hate it when strikers score unexciting goals. Whats the point of them? Ew a tap in merchant! Someone who gets on the ends of crosses?! Disgusting. A striker who is in the box?! Revolting.
Keep in mind that he had a good season in 15/16, and then in 16/17 scored 1 goal in 18 appearances.
We all have issues with Woodward and the truth is at this time last week, the anger would have been justified. People seem to be unable to differentiate his past mistakes with some of his current investments. This signing would be very useful to us, as not only does Martial need a back up, he also needs the competition. Since 2015, when Van Persie left, we have not had a legitimate back up striker. When you add that to the dearth of quality we have had at no.10 and the lack of a right winger since Nani left, it is little surprise that we have scored few goals during this period. The lack of quality in attack within our starting xi also made people forget that we do not have an useful depth in those positions either. The difference between Tottenham and United over these last 4 years has been depth in my opinion. Ighalo is a premier league striker who can bang in goals and would cost us little in terms of financial attachment. Even if we signed him permanently ( on low wages of course), we would be in a far stronger position than we have been in attack over the last few years.
In addition to this, Martial needs the competition. He has proven to be too inconsistent over the years to trust him with leading the line of this team alone. A guy like Ighalo can help supplement our attack when Martial is not on his game or needs a rest. Mourinho at both chelsea, madrid and even inter to an extent used backups to supplement the lack of goals from his main strikers and it proved effective. Martial may not even need to be a 25 goal a season striker if he had a back up that can give us 12 a season.
There are also more positions that need attention such as centre midfield and our right flank. Signing a cheap back up that can supplement Martial can give us the time to evaluate the quality of Martial in the striker role and allow us to spend our Pogba money on positions that are in more urgent need of strengthening.
In addition to this, Martial needs the competition. He has proven to be too inconsistent over the years to trust him with leading the line of this team alone. A guy like Ighalo can help supplement our attack when Martial is not on his game or needs a rest. Mourinho at both chelsea, madrid and even inter to an extent used backups to supplement the lack of goals from his main strikers and it proved effective. Martial may not even need to be a 25 goal a season striker if he had a back up that can give us 12 a season.
There are also more positions that need attention such as centre midfield and our right flank. Signing a cheap back up that can supplement Martial can give us the time to evaluate the quality of Martial in the striker role and allow us to spend our Pogba money on positions that are in more urgent need of strengthening.
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Im all for this.
Hope it gets done before the deadline.
Hope it gets done before the deadline.
This is why Ruud was such a failure here. I can't remember a single overhead kick from outside the box, not one.
He's not Chinese.
I hope he wasn’t on the bat soup
Were they all basic goals inside the box? If so, count me 150% on this Ighalo train.... choooo chooooo!!!!
There are many reasons to get pissed but this loan signing is not one of them. Good that we got a decent striker for much needed cover. We can buy a proper one in the summer
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