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Nigeria’s Ighalo Says He Turned Down ‘offer’ To Be Barcelona Striker by Eugenemartins: 2:41pm On Mar 30, 2019 |
Nigeria Super Eagles striker Jude Ighalo has
disclosed how he turned down an offer to join
European giant Barcelona.
Apparently, the former Watford player was not
willing to play second fiddle to any striker in the
world, not even the highly rated Luis Suarez .
“My agent spoke to me about a loan interest
from Barcelona, ” Ighalo told Goal .
He explained that the purported deal “ - was
meant to be a six- month loan and strictly as a
back- up striker ” to Luis Suarez .
Although Ighalo felt flattered by the offer from
the five-time European and serial champions of
the Spanish league , but “ deserves” a better deal
from Barcelona having led the attack for
Udinese, Granada and Watford .
He joined English premier league club Watford
in 2014 from Italian side Udinese and left in
January 2017 , scoring 33 goals in 82 appearances.
Ighalo joined Chinese Super League side
Changchun Yatai in 2017, where he scored 36
goals in 55 appearances but could not help the
team survive relegation .
However, the Nigeria Super Eagles talisman ,
who signed for his current team Shanghai
Shenhua in January 2019, believes he has a
proven goalscoring record unbefitting of him to
be Barcelona ’s second striker .
“It was nice to hear that Barcelona were
interested and any footballer would be more
than happy to take it, ” he said .
“But I had just finished as the second top scorer
in China with 21 goals , I deserve better and
didn’t want to be a short-term player
somewhere. ” |
Re: Nigeria’s Ighalo Says He Turned Down ‘offer’ To Be Barcelona Striker by thesicilian: 2:45pm On Mar 30, 2019 |
Smart guy. It is better to play regular first team football in a smaller team than be a perpetual bench warmer in a big one. |
Re: Nigeria’s Ighalo Says He Turned Down ‘offer’ To Be Barcelona Striker by decatalyst(m): 2:48pm On Mar 30, 2019 |
thesicilian: Abi his quality is below par for a club like Barcelona...dude jejely choose to be a tiger in a Chinese league over a cat in Barcelona team list. Wise move...
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Re: Nigeria’s Ighalo Says He Turned Down ‘offer’ To Be Barcelona Striker by OLUWABIG(m): 5:44pm On Apr 01, 2019 |
mukina2 Do the needful abeg |
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