Odion Ighalo has departed Al-Shabab for fellow Saudi Arabia club Al-Hilal for an undisclosed fee.
Al-Hilal confirmed the signing in their verified Twitter handle on Saturday.
The club disclosed that Ighalo penned a one-and-the-half.
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The 32-year-old, who is the current leading goal scorer in the Saudi topflight with 12 goals, departs Al Shabab after joining them in February 2021.
The former Manchester United star came out of international retirement and featured for the Eagles against Cape Verde in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.
Also, he was included in the Eagles’ squad for the AFCON 2021 by former head coach Gernot Rohr.
However, Al Shabab declined to release him for the tournament which the Eagles crashed out in the round of 16.
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Is Ighalo a major shareholder in CSN?
Is this not a worthy news item? Ighalo na baller a beg. To say him go Afcon we for still dey there.
What a question?
Congrats bro. Hope you got the clause right this time to assist our dwindling attack. You still have much to give.
That’s the point you had it nailed. I want to believe it is the clause that made him leave his former employee.
CONGRATULATIONS Bro. Newcastle Just missed out! So sad!!
For those who are saying Ighalo never fought his club enough for them to release him for AFCON, there you have it, the AFCON drama is what lead to him parting ways with his club so he could change the useless clause and be a free man to play for his fatherland.
Ride on my brother, SE still need your experience in our attack
Congrats; from Sunday-Sunday football club to another Sunday-Sunday football club ;
this is Igahalo that was so overhyped ahead of Afcon tournament, deceiving the gullible ones that Premiership relegation bound Newcastle wanted to sign Igahalo and that his club had agreed to release him ( I laughed it off then , and I wrote it here that Igahalo in premiership (at his current pace going by his total waste of space in his last game , even to the embarrassment of his associate Rohr who had attributed his poor performance to his exit from the team for 2 years ), was a joke and I bet it then ; one , it was a day dream and again a retired Igahalo would not dared come near the fas tempo competitive serious league as Premiership; otherwise, he would be totally exposed, in a league that a younger Iwobi is still struggling to retain his starting 11.
Only an unpaid coach would look at the direction of the retired Igahalo who was a complete total flopped in his last game , with Zero goal , zero assist , zero contribution and overburden to Osimeh, until his associate Rohr yanked him off in the second half with a silly and shameful excuse where he had shamelessly begging Nigerians to give a retired flopped Igahalo more time to adapt ( I hope another space would not be wasted for Igahalo against Ghana team that is desperate, any silly toying with this WC qualifying would be disastrous ( that is why I have been advocating, for Eguafon to be retained, he must be adequately paid at least minimum half of Rohr’s salary , only then Eguafon would not be crying over the retired Igahalo )
Igahalo have served Nigeria meritoriously and should concentrate on his Sunday-Sunday Saudi league as long as it last , Osimeh,Dessers Amooo and other young quality players are what SE needs ; only a retired player that deserved attention is Victor Mosses whose position still remain vacant till date .
If there is anything I can thank Rohr for , it is his unintended expose of the retired Igahalo by starting him in his last game , after the hide & seek game Igahalo in the away match ; otherwise; they would have declared Igahalo would have scored 10 goals
You’re a big fool
I support this your reply with one Alomo bitters.
@De-Great, Well said !
I wonder whether some people think before they even post
@DeStar you are really becoming a nuisance on this forum with your shallow comments. Al Hilal is the champions of Asia and Ighalo is the leading scorer in the league hence was highly regarded by the current champion, that peaks volume of his performance on the pitch. Vincent Aboubakar of Cameroon also plays in the same league and wasn’t at the level of Ighalo but came to set the current AFCON on fire with 6 goals so far before the quarter final match but you are here calling their league a Sunday Sunday football league.
If you are good enough to be picked for that Sunday league while pocketing millions of dollars you will jump
@They statyed throwing names around and most of their so called prolific strikers were in the AFCON team without any noticeable impact. Even Equaevon is very unhappy Ighalo could not make the squad. Considering different factors to make a conclusion, Ighalo still remains one of the three best strikers Nigeria has presently. Anyone who is trying to dispute that is living a a fool’s paradise.
Congratulations my all time favourite footballer,One love my brother
@Dr Banks or whatever you called yourself, let this be the last time you ever use that your dirty words mentioning my name ;
2 days ago you did worst with your dirty choice of words , just because of my honest opinion in support of Eguafon who in any case was never my fan as I wrote here on his appointment that he was an upgraded local version of Rohr ; because I choose to support him to be allowed to continue on the job because of the quality job he did , transforming SE into a joyful team that was adjudged not only the best in the first round, with 4 players of SE selected in the first 11 but also Eguafon was adjudged by the Afcon technical sturdy team as the best among all the coaches in the first round.
My support is for SE and not any coach, if you like you and your Rohr’s United Nig Ltd fans can continue to warship and average coach Rohr because of their skins and your low esteem mentality; it is your cup of tea . My allegiance reaming SE ; if Eguafon also messed up tomorrow, I will also criticize him period .
Igahalo that was complete total flop in his last game with SE with Zero goal, Zero assist and zero contributions has no business again in SE . were you dead when Rohr himself shamefully admitted he was flopped before he yanked him off , and furthered begging Nigerians to give Igahalo more time as his flopped was as a result of his retirement from the team 2 years ago ?
Is that the kind of player that should be invited against Ghana ? ( when you give wrong advice and Eguafon fails , it is a rotten overhyped character like you that would be destroying your local coaches in preference to your quack white skins coaches) .
Yesterday , because people were airing their sensible opinion supporting continuation of Eguafon on the job based on his performance rather than asking a starter foreign coach to take on Ghana in the next crucial game ; you wrote a derogatory choice of words that would have expected from the National transport road union member, by declaring we were all sick in the head ( is that the choice of words used to your fellow colleagues or forum members in the western world you arrogantly claimed to reside?)
Only an empty barrel makes loudest noice; you overhyped yourself to such extent you claimed to be trained medical doctor in Nigeria and upon getting abroad you realized what you acquired in Nigeria was total rubbish ( you are the real one that is sick on the head ( I am waiting for your fellow foreign based Medical doctors in the platform that thumb up to your silly claim ) .
@DeStar, all am saying is that you shouldn’t just come here and be typing just for the sake of just talking. Think before you type, analyse you comment for its merit and demerit, check your facts critically before posting it here.
You said “Eguafon was an upgraded local version of Rohr because of the quality job he did , transforming SE into a joyful team that was adjudged not only the best in the first round, with 4 players of SE selected in the first 11 but also Eguafon was adjudged by the Afcon technical sturdy team as the best among all the coaches in the first round”
What is joyful about a team that crashed out of AFCON in the round of 16 losing to a depleted (12 players down with Covid + Coach) Tunisian team with an assistant coach. And you lied that 4 SE players were in the AFCON first 11 after group stage (only Moses and Ekong was in 1st 11, Ndidi was on the bench hence not 1st 11). Eguavoen was adjudged to be in the best group stage coach simply by being the only team that won all 3 group matches (against minnows Sudan and Guinea Bissau) not because of any tactical expertise.
The same Egypt that we won is marching on now into Semi finals while your best coach is back in Lagos watching Egypt marching towards glory. So tell me who is a better coach now between Carlos Queiroz and Eguavoen? The depleted Tunisian team who taught Eguavoen a lesson of his life was dumped out by a hapless Burkina Faso team in the QF.
My brother, I never overhyped myself because I never claimed what I am not, in fact I understated what I am in real sense. If you don’t believe me, why do you think all your politicians were flying overseas all the time for medical treatment? Often times they are being treated here by Nigerian doctors that has received further training here.
Lastly, I am very sorry if I used derogatory words in my earlier comments, I apologise sincerely for that as it was not in me to do that, I simply could not comprehend why you will be supporting such a monumental failure that Eguavoen was at this AFCON, it breaks my heart into pieces
I am glad you said Super Eagles is where your support lies, likewise me so lets say and do things that will uplift our dear SE of Nigeria.
One love brother!!!