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Transfers: Turkish giants Besiktas close to tempting the highest scoring Nigerian in 2021/22 back to Europe
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3 years agoon
The Tremendous Eagles ahead has turned again the fingers of time in entrance of aim and is like wonderful previous wine getting higher with age
Turkish giants Besiktas are engaged on a deal to lure former Manchester United loanee Odion Ighalo again to Europe, in line with reviews from Turkey.
After spells at Granada, Udinese, and Watford, Ighalo left Europe in 2017 to hitch Chinese language membership CC Yatai in a deal value over 20 million euros.
The Nigerian ahead switched to Shanghai Shenhua two years later.
Manchester United paid Shenhua €12 million in January 2020 to take Ighalo on a mortgage deal that was initially meant to final six months however was prolonged to a 12 months.
Simply over a month after returning to Shenhua, Ighalo left China for Saudi Arabia, the place he teamed up with Al-Shabab.
However he switched to league rivals Al-Hilal SFC on the finish of January this 12 months after Al-Shabab refused to permit him to play for Nigeria on the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
Ighalo, 33, has scored 28 targets in 39 video games in all competitions this season, and his ten targets in 11 matches for Al-Hilal have fired the aspect to the brink of the Premier League title.
No different Nigerian ahead has scored extra targets than Ighalo this season.
Ighalo’s contract with Al-Hilal doesn’t expire till subsequent 12 months. Nonetheless, the Asia Galácticos are reportedly trying to hand the ahead a brand new two-year deal however at his present wage of 5.4 million euros.
Ighalo, nonetheless, requested a wage enhance which Al-Hilal didn’t accede to, permitting Besiktas to step in and make the most of the scenario.
And in line with Fotospor, the previous Turkish champions have bid for Odion Ighalo and are keen to pay him a wage of 6 million euros.
Ighalo is, nonetheless, not near agreeing to a take care of the Black Eagles.
The Tremendous Eagles striker is eager on profitable the primary league title of his profession with Al-Hilal, with the membership degree on factors with leaders Al-Ittihad with solely two video games left.
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