The former Nigeria international has completed an unexpected dream move, but it is difficult to envisage how it'll pan out for him at Man United
How you process the befuddling news that Odion Ighalo – yes, that Odion Ighalo – will spend the rest of the season on loan at Manchester United depends on what you believe the Red Devils need the most at this precise moment.
The club's decision, at the behest of manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, to turn their noses up at Romelu Lukaku last summer and then sign no replacement at all has been shown up as hubristic to the extreme.