Nigeria's forward Odion Ighalo celebrates after scoring a goal during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) third place play-off football match between Tunisia and Nigeria at the Al Salam stadium in Cairo on July 17, 2019. (KHALED DESOUKI / AFP)

LONDON - Manchester United's new signing Odion Ighalo will travel to London for next Monday's Premier League fixture against Chelsea, confirmed Red Devils manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Nigerian striker Ighalo was signed on loan from the Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua at the end of January and was training in Manchester instead of traveling to Spain with the squad for a warm-weather training camp during the first ever winter break of Premier League.

We will just see his fitness work this week and I think we will get him sharp

Solskjaer, Coach, Manchester United

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Solskjaer, interviewed by the club's website in Marbella of southern Spain on Monday, has confirmed that Ighalo will travel to Stamford Bridge with the team.

"Yeah, he is going to travel with us. We will just see his fitness work this week and I think we will get him sharp. We want to integrate him as quickly as we can because, of course, he is desperate to play for us," said Solskjaer.

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Ighalo, 30, played for Watford from 2014-2017. He also had experience in the leagues of Norway, Italy and Spain.

Manchester United are eighth in Premier League, six points behind fourth-placed Chelsea.