The Swede referred to the situation of the Frenchman, whose contract with PSG expires next June.
On the occasion of the publication of his book Adrenaline, my stories ignored, Zlatan Ibrahimovic gave an interview to the Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport, in which he was consulted on various issues throughout his career and on the situation of Kylian Mbappé at Paris Saint-Germain.
The Swede, AC Milan striker and also a former PSG player, among others, assured that Frenchman Kylian Mbappé, star of the Parisian team, he needs a more structured club than his current club and he took Real Madrid as an example.
“Mbappé needs an environment with a more solid structure, like that of Real Madrid. But then I told the PSG president not to sell him, ”Ibrahimovic said.
Zlatan referred to the situation of Mbappé, whose contract with PSG expires next June and who has already asked his club to transfer him to Real Madrid this summer, without the two clubs being able to close an agreement.
His relationship with Pep Guardiola
In the interview, the Swedish striker also He re-analyzed his problematic relationship with Spanish coach Pep Guardiola, a man who, in his opinion, does not love “players with character.”
“Guardiola never understood me. He wanted to program everything that I had to do. He wanted to make instinct plays, but then he thought about what he wanted and changed. That way, I was thinking too much, ”Ibrahimovic said.
“Guardiola does not like players with character. I had become a problem and since he couldn’t solve it, I solved it by leaving, ”he added.
Ibrahimovic played with Guardiola at FC Barcelona in 2009-2010 and left the following year for AC Milan, after scoring 16 league goals.
Ballon d’Or for Robert Lewandowski
During his time in the Catalan team, the Swede shared the dressing room with Argentine Lionel Messi, a player who “lives for football” and with whom he had a “professional relationship.”
In reference to whether the Argentine was a deserved winner of the Ballon d’Or, Ibrahimovic clarified that no, that “this year Robert Lewandowski deserved it.”
However, he said that Lionel Messi is one of the best footballers, he even prefers him over the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, although he stressed that, in his opinion, the greatest ever is the Brazilian Ronaldo Nazario.
His almost signing for Napoli
He also expressed his deep respect for the Argentine “myth” Diego Armando Maradona and confessed that he was very close to signing for Naples after leaving the Los Angeles Galaxy.
“I was tired of being in America. I was thinking of leaving football, but (his manager) Mino Raiola told me ‘you’re crazy, you have to go back to Italy’. We had closed the agreement with Napoli, but then the president fired coach (Carlo) Ancelotti and I changed my mind, “he recalled.
He then signed for Milan: “I asked Mino which team was in the most difficult situation. I wanted to completely change the dynamics of a club. He told me that Milan had just lost 0-5 to Atalanta and at that moment I decided that I would sign for Milan. “
In the long interview, Ibrahimovic spoke of his humble origin in Malmoe, he recalled that he was “very shy with the girls” and that one day he came to steal clothes in a store because his “friends wore good clothes” and he only had “the tracksuit and the socks ”of his team. (D)
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