I couldn't sleep for 3days after Chinese club offered me over £200k per week - Odion Ighalo

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Odion Ighalo has revealed how restless he felt
after a chinese club offered to pay him a mega
sum to leave Watford last summer and join them.
The Edo native has been a revelation this season
after his 14 goals in 24games has helped
Watford climb up the table and on the brink of
avoiding relegation.
Hebei China Fortune had offered Ighalo a four -
year deal and were willing to pay Watford £10
million compensation to severe ties with the
Nigeria international.
“I was very close. They made a £10m bid and
were offering me over £200,000 a week; a four-
year contract. I couldn’t sleep for three days,”
Odion Ighalo told the Daily Mail UK.
“That kind of money is not easy to turn down.
Some team-mates in the dressing room were
saying, “You can’t miss this chance”. But I don’t
jump into decisions like that.
“ I knew God would direct me. When I said I don’t
want to go, they offered me more money, almost
£300,000 a week. I told them it’s not about the
money.”
'I have 14 goals in the Premier League, how do I
go to China now?’ said Ighalo, who signed a new
five-year deal in September thought to be worth
about £30,000 a week."
They have called again and I have turned them
down again,’ said Ighalo. ‘Maybe if I keep scoring
goals, that team will come with triple the money
at the end of the season. When the time is right
to go to China I will know. If it’s for me it will
come to pass.
‘When I was in Ajegunle, I was watching the
Premier League, dreaming one day I would be part
of it. If I keep doing what I’m doing I can enjoy
my football in England for four, five or six years.
‘I helped this team to promotion. How can I leave
because of money? I know money is good. With
that sort of money I can secure my life. But you
can’t sell your dream.’
‘I’m happy to be one of them. I’m proud to be
Nigerian and to have come from a ghetto like
that. It is not the best place to grow up. It
wasn’t easy and it has been a rough journey. But
it gave me strength to work and keep struggling.
Looking back, I can’t complain. Hard work and
the grace of God have paid off in my life.’