By Akinwale Kasali
Chinese Super League Club Side, Shanghai Shenhua Football Club is not resting on its oars in convincing former Super Eagles of Nigeria Striker, Odion Jude Ighalo to leave English Premier League team, Manchester United Football Club, after the expiration of his loan spell.
Ighalo is meant to return to his Parent Club, Shanghai Shenhua in the Summer after the loan deal with the Red Devils expires, but the Manchester United backroom Staff and Coach Ole Gunnar Solksjaer is interested in extending his contract.
Ighalo has scored four goals since arriving in England for his new Club, scoring a brace in the English Emirates FA Cup against Derby County Football Club and goals against Club Brugge Football Club of Belgium and LASK Linz Football Club of Austria in the UEFA Europa League has made the Nigerian International the ‘Beautiful Bride’.
With the Management of Shanghai Shenhua noticing that Ighalo may extend his contract with Manchester United following the Clause in the Loan deal that the Red Devil’s have the right to extend his contract by signing him on a permanent deal if he performs in the loan stint, Shanghai Shenhua is however proposing a 400,000 Pounds weekly wages for the former Watford Football Club of England forward.
Shanghai Shenhua had earlier said they will move to sign Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins as Ighalo’s replacement if they fail to land the Granada Football Club of Spain former forward.
With this development, the chances of Ighalo rejoining the Chinese Club is in the offing, having accepted a pay cut to materialise his move to Manchester United, he may decide to return to China.
The proposed new wage is over 170 percent increment to the wages he was collecting in China before moving to England, and it will 300 percent increment to what he is receiving in England.
