Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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Formally retired.

An all time great player in my opinion. It was a shame we only seen him one season in England, but that season showed how good he was.

The man was not short of confidence or conviction in his own ability either!
 
The enigma the genius that was Zlatan.

Happy retirement and thanks for the memories.

I saw him at the nou camp in his brief Barca spell.

He was often a marmite character to some but I was most def in team zlatan

What a player
 
How many strikers have actually gone into management? I can’t see him doing it. He won’t need the money for certain.
  • Alex Ferguson: best manager of all time.
  • Rinus Michels: second best manager of all time by several measures.
  • Brian Clough: best English manager of all time.
  • Udo Lattek: excelled with West Germany, Bayern and Mönchengladbach.
  • Guillermo Stábile: most Copa América titles to date.
  • Sepp Herberger: World Cup winner with West Germany.
 
  • Alex Ferguson: best manager of all time.
  • Rinus Michels: second best manager of all time by several measures.
  • Brian Clough: best English manager of all time.
  • Udo Lattek: excelled with West Germany, Bayern and Mönchengladbach.
  • Guillermo Stábile: most Copa América titles to date.
  • Sepp Herberger: World Cup winner with West Germany.
Alan Shearer didn't do a bad job. ;)
 
  • Alex Ferguson: best manager of all time.
  • Rinus Michels: second best manager of all time by several measures.
  • Brian Clough: best English manager of all time.
  • Udo Lattek: excelled with West Germany, Bayern and Mönchengladbach.
  • Guillermo Stábile: most Copa América titles to date.
  • Sepp Herberger: World Cup winner with West Germany.

Fabio capello
Roberto Mancini
 
  • Alex Ferguson: best manager of all time.
  • Rinus Michels: second best manager of all time by several measures.
  • Brian Clough: best English manager of all time.
  • Udo Lattek: excelled with West Germany, Bayern and Mönchengladbach.
  • Guillermo Stábile: most Copa América titles to date.
  • Sepp Herberger: World Cup winner with West Germany.
Yep that is a good list!
 
A few quotes that are pure zlatan

”I came like a king, left like a legend.”

And on Sweden…

“Now take care of Sweden until I return”
 
At 16 he said no to arsene wenger one of the most powerful men in football but zlatan didn’t care.. he said arsene would regret his decision I think he was right.
 
“ It was me, Hasse Borg and an agent whose name I’ve forgotten, and I shivered a bit under Wenger’s gaze. It was like he was trying to see right through me, or size me up. He’s a bloke who draws up psychological profiles of his players – are they emotionally stable, and stuff like that. He is thorough, like all great coaches, and I didn’t say much at first. I just sat in silence and was bashful, but after a while I lost my patience. Something about Wenger set me off. He would leap up every so often to check who was outside his window. It seemed like he wanted to keep an eye on everything, and he kept going on about one thing all the time. “You can have a trial with us,” he said. “You can give it a try. You can test things out.” No matter how much I wanted to behave, those words set me off. I wanted to show him what I could do. “Give me a pair of boots. I’ll have a trial. I’ll do it right now,” I said. Then Hasse Borg interrupted me, saying, “Stop, stop, we’ll sort this out, you’re not going to have a trial, not at all,” and of course, I understood what he was getting at: either you’re interested, or you’re not. Having a trial means selling yourself short. It puts you in a weak position, so we said no: “We’re sorry, Mr Wenger, but we are not interested,”

- I am Zlatan
 
One of my favourites of all time. In a time when footballers give robotic answers and have very little personallity the man had everything. Box office as somebody said above.

What a player to, he was absolutely magical. Anybody remember his flick that got chalked out against us? I almost didn't want it to
 
Dalglish, Mancini, Hitzfeld.. Klopp was a striker at one point
Jurgen Klinsmann
Johan Cruyff
Mark Hughes
Marc Wilmots
Gianluca Vialli
Andriy Shevchenko


So......apart from Ferguson, Michels, Clough, Lattek, Stábile, Sepp, Herberger, Klinsmann, Cruyff, Hughes, Wilmots, Shevchenko, Vialli, Dalglish, Mancini, Hitzfeld, Klopp, Capella, Mancini & Shearer.....how many strikers have actually gone into management?
 
Average player and record.

Until he's proved himself in the Championship with a belly full of Parmo, and carried Bob Mortimer down Wembley Way on his shoulders celebrating a PL promotion play-off win, I think rightly there will always be question marks over his legacy.
 
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