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This follows the clarification made on Friday by United's boss, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, that he never made a categorical statement that the former Super Eagles striker will be considered fit for the crunch clash at
Solskjaer confirmed earlier this week that Ighalo would travel down to
"I never said he was going to be ready to play on Monday," Ole told reporters at his pre-match press conference on Friday.
"He'll be involved with us and he'll travel down with us and, obviously, now he's out of that two-week period of precaution and it's a precaution we've made.
"He'll travel with us and let's see if he's involved or not.
"He's done his [training programme] and it was always going to be a case of him having to integrate into the group anyway after having been out in
The Norwegian went down on memory lane to his own club debut, against Blackburn Rovers in 1996, when he came on as a substitute and scored.
"I didn't have to have a training session to come on and do something.
"As a striker, sometimes you just get thrown out there and do what you can. It might be that he'll have to come off the bench and get us a goal and then he just does whatever he's always done."
Ighalo's fellow new signing,
Scott McTominay and Axel Tuanzebe both travelled to the Reds' winter training camp in Marbella and worked closely with fitness staff, but Ole has admitted the match against the Blues will come too soon for the pair, who have been out since December.
Also, Paul Pogba and
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