Saudi Arabia club, Al Shabab has reportedly said Nigerian forward Odion Ighalo won’t be permitted to join up with the senior national team of Nigeria for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, Newspremises reports.

According to Naija Sports, the club already informed Ighalo of their decision to hold on to him during the AFCON period using the late arrival of his invitation letter from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as their excuse.

They claimed they didn’t receive his invitation letter within the days stipulated by FIFA for clubs to be notified about their players going away for a tournament with their national team.

It's a similar excuse English Premier League side Watford gave on another Nigerian player in Emmanuel Dennis before the player decided not to honour the call up. Just like Dennis, it’s now up to Ighalo to decide if he wants to be at the tournament or not.


Source: https://newspremises.com.ng/we-wont-release-you-to-nigeria-for-afcon-al-shabab-to-ighalo/


Lalasticlala
Mynd44
Dominique

No be una fault...

Na the useless African leaders I blame for all these see finish...

Like seriously these people don't
have iota of respect for Africa at all

Cyril dresser is just one call away

who know al shabab for saudi, small yanshh de shake o
see as DM de use d same mistake of late submission of letters to counter his invitation bt i think ighalo may choose us over them if he is left to decide since he is a sure starter...
dts d same excuse Watford gave n it got me thinking wat NFF was doing dt dey submitted late letters
or thr NFF were too busy with dt rhor case dt made dm forget about sending letters? this players are sure starters na..

Maxymilliano:
Like seriously these people don't
have iota of respect for Africa at all

African football especially Nigerian football needs to respect itself too,
streets say na old man we too follow small pikin play go chop small pikin slap..
wats d stupid nonchalant attitude of Nigerians generally, submitting letters very late to watford n now to this club, now u see as DM de use us dey shine bcox dm don see us finish..
if dey place Ighalo to decide, he may choose Nigeria bcoz he would still Mk world cup squad even without playing club football bcox he av paid his dues in eagles unlike denis

Englandboy:
Cyril dresser is just one call away

u sure say no be another case of late submission of letter or them no even send letter atall...