Hmmmm. Interesting.
If you had told us a year ago that Manchester United might consider signing a 33 year old for £20m we would have marched you down to the doctors for some pills which might re-establish the equilibrium in your clearly crazy little head.
But such has been the change in transfer policy at Manchester United, since Louis van Gaal got his feet under the table, that we wouldn’t completely rule out a move for Zlatan Ibrahimovic this summer.
We wouldn’t back the move – it’s total madness – but we wouldn’t rule it out.
Reports this week have suggested that he’s on Manchester United’s radar
Zlatan has the ego to go with his outrageous skills.
And, in the latest edition of Sports Ilustrated, Zlatan talks about his rocky relationship with Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal when they were both at Ajax, but also states that confrontation can be a good thing.
“He was a director in Ajax, and the way he is working is not the way I work.”
But he went on:
“At the end, I think he is professional and I am professional. Whoever I work with, I never had this kind of problems, because at the end I need to do my job, he needs to do his job,” Ibrahimovic said. “And I think a lot of fights would happen, but that’s something I like.”
Zlatan is a supreme talent and has scored goals wherever the has been – even at Barca he score more than a goal every other game.
But do Manchester United really have so much money that they can sign a 33 year old for silly money, pay him silly salaries and have no guarantee that he would adapt to The Premier League or not be in terminal decline after this summer?
We would strongly recommend that Manchester United address some of their debt mountain before throwing their money away on a hugely costly short term gamble.
