When Odion Ighalo arrived at Manchester United before deadline day in January, there were plenty of sniggers surrounding the desperate depths they had plunged just to sign a striker.
After all, trying to replace the injured Marcus Rashford with a striker who was playing in China and was last seen in England struggling to hit a barn door with Watford was hardly going to set the pulses racing at Old Trafford.
Yet Ighalo's eight appearances before the coronavirus outbreak saw him bag four goals and the boyhood United fan has settled well enough to be wanted for an extended stay beyond his loan spell, which expires this Sunday.