5 lesser-known Premier League strikers who could be on the move next transfer window

#2 Odion Ighalo

Four loan spells in five years and Odion Ighalo may have felt he’d never settle down at a football club. In his three seasons at Granada he scored on 33 occasions – not bad, but given the lamentable, modest background Odion flourished from, the fact he’s playing football is a positive.

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, the forward endured a childhood in the ghetto where the closest he came to playing football was knocking around old tin cans with his bare feet. For his first club in his home country, Ighalo played to the backdrop of gun-fire and teenagers selling marijuana, before he was snapped up by Norweigan club Lyn Oslo at 17-years-old which acted as a platform for his transition to Italy with Udinese.

Ighalo quickly became a part of the catalogue of Udinese players loaned out to Watford, due to the owners holding power in both parties, and his move was made permanent in 2014. The story and motivation of Ighalo installed in Watford renewed hope for promotion and his goals towards the back-end of last season helped them clinch second spot.

Now an established Hornet, Ighalo has taken the Premier League by the scruff of its neck and has been clincial since opening his account for the season on the opening day against Everton. All fairy tales need a happy ending and, while finishing his career at Watford wouldn’t be the worst decision, if a big club were to take a punt on the 26-year-old, who knows how far the innocent boy from Lagos could go.