Nigeria forward Odion Ighalo has explained how playing for Premier League club Watford has helped him in his career.
Ighalo linked up with Watford in 2014 and was integral in the club’s promotion to the Premier League in the 2014–15 season.
The 32-year-old scored 33 goals In 82 leage appearances for the Hornets before moving to Chinese Super League outfit Changchun Yatai in 2017.
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“If you want to talk about Odion Ighalo, my career, my success and my life and career, you can’t take Watford away from it. Without Watford FC I don’t think I would be where I am today,” he told Watford website.
“What I did at Watford in the first season in the Premier League, that is what I am still enjoying today. People remember what I did in the Premier League, and I really enjoyed my time at Watford. I’m grateful for the club, the fans still love me and I love the fans.
“I still follow Watford. I just hope things will change and the team stays up.” He also went on to compare the Saudi top-tier with some of the other leagues he played in.
“I’m enjoying my time here. It’s my second year here in Saudi Arabia with a different team and everything is going well. I’m scoring goals and the team is doing well, so I’m happy.”
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That’s exactly what we want though Afcon21 is gone for good. Come quick against Ghana.
He was really good at watfoy,strong pacy and hungry for goals ,unlike now that he can no longer move ,but he is still better than our young strikers that humiliated themselves at the Afcon
The strikers for d playoffs against Ghana… Odion, Osimhen, Awoniyi and or Onuachu. But where Onuachu is disadvantaged is that he barely scores while on Nigeria jersey. I think he had only scored 2goals in many appearances.
He scored only one goal and that was against Egypt. Onuachu is a poor finisher but at club level, he is a beauty.
Onuachu actually has 3 goals for Nigeria National team. One each against Eqypt, Benin and Lesotho
My guy leave that talk. Onuachu na my man but he no fit dislodge Awoniyi, Sadiq and Ighalo…. Not talkess of Osimhen. Even Musa sef na alternate centre forward.
Very humble, said for the love of his country, he was going to play with his bare body. I hope his club will not cause kata kata this time.
Charton, Ighalo is no longer there. He left Al-Shabab for Al Hilal because he wasn’t happy to have missed Cameroon due to club shenanigans and agreement bottleneck. His selling point is that he keeps scoring anywhere he plays. I think he has scored about 9 goals for the club he recently joined. I’m not so sure of the number of goals but shaa, he scores in almost every game. Black Stars will surely pee in their pants on the 25th.