In a Champions League campaign that started so promisingly for the Premier League club, three defeats in their last four games in Group G saw them finishing third in the standings.

Now, multiple reports have it that the club vice-chairman Ed Woodward is frustrated with Solksjaer as no tangible result has been achieved since he took over two years ago. Woodward also feels he has supplied Solksjaer with all his transfer targets and an £80m Maguire who keeps letting in goals.

Reports from the Sun UK, Mirror and Daily Star also suggest that the club will soon enter discussions with former Tottenham coach Mauricio Pochettino or even PSG coach Thomas Tuchel as the club has stalled under Solksjaer.

Ighalo was signed on a six months loan contract from Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua on transfer deadline day in January as a back up to the injured Marcus Rashford but has shone every time he put on a Manchester United jersey to play for the club.

Solksjaer a huge fan of Ighalo says the player has already shown enough to warrant a place in the Manchester United squad next season.

He said “Odion has done really well since he came in and he’s enjoying himself,’ Solskjaer said following the game. And he will improve and get better but he has qualities we saw in him and we needed and we will still need those qualities for next season, so let’s see what we will do. He’s a goalscorer and a striker, he doesn’t worry too much about all that nonsense; build-up play – that’s a joke, obviously. He knows his job and what his role in the team is, and he’s very good with his back to goal, great link player, but maybe the best thing about him is his personality, so he’s got the whole lot really. He had three touches before his fourth was the finish. All the touches were high quality but he had to make them create space for himself. But the strike is on the half-volley, great timing, no one would have saved that one so anyone would have been proud of that finish.”