Manchester, welcome to Zlatan - The Zlatan Ibrahimović Thread

Somehow I can't see him enjoying life in Los Angeles. Perhaps New York City, but not LA. Ibra has always seemed more Cantona than Beckham, a man who has contempt for absurdity rather than a man who welcomes it.

 

Just wish he could have a good end to his ManU career .

Don't see him slumming it in the states or China ...

 

He should retire, it will help the MLS getting away from being a retirement league, it will help him not disgrace himself, it will help us by putting him as a coach.

 

You think he has the temperament to be a coach?

 

Na ...


He craves the limelight but wouldn't put up with the criticism , he will probably have ambitions similar to his mate at Barca ( Pique ) who says he will be Barca president one day ..

 

Sure he does if he wants to, as long as you want to be a winner. He could be the next Van Gaal.

 

With all due respect guys, the Premier League that you know and love today, was as recently as the mid-to-late-nineties, described by most of mainland Europe as Serie A and La Liga's "retirement league".

That's because initially, we were only attracting the older names or also-rans (Andrea Silenzi, I'm looking at you).

MLS is now attracting increasingly younger talents (Sebastian Giovinco, the Dos Santos brothers, Carlos Vela, Nemanja Nikolic, Romain Alessandrini) and up-and-comers from Central- and South-America.

I'm not saying MLS is en route to becoming the EPL, but don't be a bunch of snobs. If Zlatan comes here, even if he flames out spectacularly, at the very worst it becomes a barely-acknowledged footnote to his career. Nobody could have had a worse late-career performance in MLS than Steven Gerrard. Is that what he's famous for? No, that's having never won a league title in his entire career.

When we look back at the careers of Bastian Schweinsteiger and David Villa, will their time in MLS be the focus, or the World Cups and success in the Bundesliga and La Liga? Clearly it'll be the latter.

 

As soon as it was announced he was coming back early I knew this season was a wash for him. Same for Rojo. As I stated when the injury happened, you don't just return from ACL surgery that quickly and go back to playing a sport at a professional level that requires rapid cutting and turning.

 

He gave us a lift when we were at rock bottom, but in general not a fan of getting older players or ones with injury issues.

There was a piece in MEN suggesting we go for Robben who is a free agent in the summer - after Falcao, Schweini, Ibra, Rooney, (last year of) Carrick ... no thanks.

Although younger, given the history and miles on the clock same goes for Bale.

Especially in the EPL, for the most part old-timers become part-timers very quickly.

 

Hopefully he'll be back playing and helping United finish the season strongly then rejoin Sweden in the World Cup finals - typical Ibra !!

 

I know it is changing but it is not there, it still is geared towards retirement players. That's reality.

Sure the EPL before my time was not the greatest league, but you still played in European Cups, you still played in a system of relegation promotion, losing was not okay. I do not want to derail the discussion, but the competitive nature of European football regardless of era still trumps MLS for now.

So basically, for me Ibra going to Malmo than MLS is more gratifying for him as a player, not from sentimental piece but competing in Europe as well.

 

Don't spoil this for me.

 

Never ... I saw him going out at the top or maybe going back to his hometown club

 

Adios.

 

I'll raise you a Rafa Marquez

 

Sounds logical.

Zlatan was holding out at United in hope he may finally be part of a team that won the Champions League. Makes sense to move on now that dream will never be realised

— Dean Jones (@DeanJonesSoccer) March 22, 2018

 

So rashford will be our back-up striker?. Good [emoji106]