IGHALO IN CLEAR FOR UNITED TRIP TO BRUGES

ODION IGHALO will be able to travel with Manchester United for their Europa League tie in Bruges next week despite having to miss the club’s training camp in Marbella over the coronavirus alert. Ighalo, a deadline day signing from Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua, was left in Manchester when the United squad flew to Spain on Saturday amid fears he would not be allowed back into the UK if border controls are tightened this week. The Nigeria striker is among the travellers to the UK from China being monitored for 14 days, although he did not have to go into quarantine because he arrived from Shanghai not Wuhan where the coronavirus originated. That two-week period runs out on Sunday and United have confirmed that Ighalo will be free to travel to Belgium a week on Thursday after being added to their Europa League squad. The 30-year-old, who has moved to Old Trafford on loan until the end of the season, is expected to make his debut against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge three days earlier. Ighalo’s absence from this week’s warm-weather training camp in Marbella is still a setback for manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer who was hoping the former Watford striker could get to know his new team-mates. The player will instead work on an individual programme with personal performance coach Wayne Richardson, training alongside the Great Britain taekwondo squad in Manchester. Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford have also stayed in Manchester as they recover from injury. Midfielder Scott McTominay and defender Axel Tuanzebe, who have both been out of action since December, trained apart from the rest of the squad at the Marbella Football Centre yesterday but could join in with the group later this week.