This brings to an end three seasons of COVID-19 restrictions in the competition.
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The former Super Eagles star was handed a two-and-a-half-year deal with the King Fahd Stadium outfit having passed his medical
The 60-year-old still had a season remaining on his lucrative £12 million-a-year contract, but has opted to leave the Chinese Super League club by mutual consent.
The centre-forward was handed a one-year contract by the Han Army, who finished sixth in the Chinese top-flight last season.
The former Newcastle striker left the club in 2018 after picking up a serious knee injury
The Chinese top-flight football league’s 2020 campaign was slated to kick off on February 22, 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The extension comes after problems over the player’s return to China convinced the Chinese Super League club – who will receive a total of £10.5 million, with the £6 million loan fee and £130,000-a-week salary combined – to let him stay at Old Trafford.
Ighalo, 30, joined United in January from the Chinese Super League outfit and the terms of the original deal had been due to expire tonight
Shanghai Shenhua expect Odion Ighalo to return from his loan spell at Manchester United in time for the start of the new Chinese Super League season, which is scheduled to begin in July.
The league was scheduled to start on February 22 but was pushed back because of the novel coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 82,000 people in China, killing 4,633
Manchester United star Odion Ighalo would prefer to turn his temporary spell at Old Trafford into a permanent one come the summer transfer window rather than return to Shanghai Shenhua, reports claimed.
China’s domestic league has yet to start the 2020 season after kick off was delayed indefinitely due to the coronavirus outbreak, but speculation is mounting that the campaign will begin in late April or early May
Brazil star Hulk has reportedly married the niece of his ex-wife after the two confirmed their relationship back in December.
The 32-year-old currently plays in the Chinese Super League for Shandong Luneng and he tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday.
Man United will consider making the permanent signing of Odion Ighalo their first move of the summer transfer market.
The Nigerian was a surprise new arrival at United at the very end of the January transfer window, joining on loan from Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua until the end of the current campaign.
Ex-Manchester United defender Derek Brazil has sung the praises of new signing Odion Ighalo.
Ighalo arrived at Old Trafford to much derision in the January transfer window, having spent the past three years playing in the Chinese Super League after a similar length spell at Watford
Juan Mata has backed January recruits Bruno Fernandes and Odion Ighalo to hit the ground running at Old Trafford.
That number is particularly popular in his native Nigeria, with Nwankwo Kanu having starred for Arsenal in it