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Solskjaer gave me the chance to live my dream – Ighalo

Nigeria’s Odion Jude Ighalo will forever be grateful to Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer for supporting him to live his dream with the Old Trafford squad.

Speaking for the first time after he moved from Saudi Arabian side, Al-Shabab, Ighalo expressed his love and admiration to the coach who believed in him and gave him the chance to live his childhood dream of playing for the Red Devils in any capacity.

“Every player wants to play, but I always respect my coach. I’m a hard worker in training and match situations, It’s painful though, but the decision is not yours,” Ighalo informed 88.9 sports radion.

“No player wants to be on the bench, particularly when you know you are fit or even better than those selected ahead of you.

“But, I respect Ole. He gave me the chance to live my dream. I can’t feel bad or hold any grudge.”

Despite living a dream for 12 months, Ighalo would have wanted his time at Old Trafford to have ended on a positive note.

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The former Watford ace did not make another United appearance since featuring in the closing stages of the 1-3 home loss to PSG in the UEFA Champions League back in December.

Ighalo believes Solskjaer was unfair by not offering him more chances.

But the 31-year-old has hinted that the Red Devils boss may have been unfair in his dealings with him during the latter days of his loan spell.

“I believe that sometimes he (Solskjaer) wasn’t fair to me because I deserved to play, but I don’t think and won’t say it was discrimination.”

Ighalo has since signed for Saudi Arabia’s top-flight club Al Shabab on a two-and-a-half-year deal.

Ighalo enjoined a brilliant start to life at United, scoring four goals in eight appearances upon joining from Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua on the final day of the January transfer window. But his fantastic form was halted when the season was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Still, the boyhood United fan’s loan was subsequently extended beyond its original May deadline until the last day in January.

Ighalo only scored once more after football restarted.

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