Manchester United’s transfer deadline day loan deal for Odion Ighalo only serves to highlight the gap between the Red Devils and the Premier League’s elite, claims Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.
Ighalo, 30, joined United in a shock move late on January 31 as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer desperately sought to bolster a light attack further weakened by Marcus Rashford’s long-term injury.
The Nigeria international, who scored 36 goals in 90 League games for Watford before joining Chinese Super League club Changchun Yatai, has signed on loan from Shanghai Greenland Shenhua for the rest of the 2019/20 season.
While Ighalo has proven Premier League experience, former Chelsea forward Hasselbaink feels the forward has lucked out in terms of joining his childhood club.
“He must be the luckiest man! Going to China, being away from Europe, nobody seeing him for two-and-a-half years since he was at Watford and then getting a loan move at United,” he told Sky Sports.
