Striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic from AC Milan offered his services according to his own statements last summer at his ex-club Paris Saint-Germain. The now 40-year-old wanted to join the French as a sports director.
“It’s true, I offered myself to PSG. Not as a player, but as a sports director,” quoted the French sports newspaper The team the end Adrenaline, the recently published book in Italy by the 40-year-old Swede.
Ibrahimovic continued: “I called Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the president (of PSG, editor) and offered him: ‘If I don’t renew my contract with Milan, I’ll come to PSG and give your team structure again ‘. Nasser laughed, but he didn’t say no either. “
At the end of April, however, Ibrahimovic decided to extend his working paper at Milan for another year until the end of June 2022. In the current Serie A season, the attacker currently has six goals and two assists, thanks in part to Ibra, Milan can dream of their first Italian championship title since 2011. Whether he will continue to play beyond next summer is currently completely open.
Ibrahimovic doesn’t regret that he decided to continue a few months ago: “I liked the project (sports director at PSG, ed.), But that didn’t take away the feeling of fear and panic that I had at the thought to end my career as a footballer, “he said. “I would have gone to Paris, would have watched the team training and asked myself a thousand times: ‘Why did you quit?'”
Ibrahimovic, who stormed for PSG from 2012 to 2016 and scored 156 goals in 180 competitive games for the French, also said that he has no problem with Paris’ current sporting director Leonardo: “It’s nothing personal about Leonardo. On the contrary: I like him , he brought me to PSG. I don’t blame him, but I know the difference between us: I don’t ask, I demand. “
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