Zlatan Ibrahimovic has left several headlines in the preview of the “uncensored” interview conducted by Piers Morgan, a journalist who interviewed Cristiano Ronaldo in November 2022 after the Portuguese left Manchester United and who recently did the same with Luis Rubiales and the resignation of the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation. The 42-year-old Swede, who retired from professional football in June 2023, has reviewed several topics ranging from the possibility of being an actor to his tense relationship with Pep Guardiola.
“In the first meeting with him, he told me: ‘Remember that here (at Barcelona) the players do not arrive in Ferrari’. Then I showed up with my fucking Ferrari,” explains Ibrahimovic about one of the moments of tension with the current Manchester City coach, when he was part of the Barça squad.
Zlatan has been a player loved and hated in equal measure by both the fans of the clubs he has played for and his rivals. Ajax, Juventus, Inter, Barça, PSG and the Los Angeles Galaxy know what it was like to have a forward as prodigious on the pitch as controversial off it. Also, Manchester United, a team for which he played for two seasons (2017-18 and 2018-19), currently managed by Erik ten Hag.
“Coming from Ajax to United like he did is a big difference: I have been at both clubs. What is the experience of this coach? (…). United have to win all the titles they play for. Now it is being dominated by its neighbor Manchester City and the situation there is totally different. Everyone has the responsibility to meet the demands. Either you believe in it or you don’t believe in it,” commented Ibrahimovic about the Red Devils coach and the situation the Old Trafford team is currently going through.
In the preview of the interview lasting just over a minute, Ibrahimovic rhetorically asked: “When I say I am God, do you think I am joking or not?” “I’m not kidding,” he added when Morgan asked him about the possibility of interviewing “the real Zlatan.” In addition, he mentioned the possibility of playing a “bad guy” in a James Bond movie, although Ibrahimovic acknowledges that he is “very expensive” and that “he doesn’t work for free.” Regarding Mino Raiola, he acknowledged that his death in April 2022 was “a great loss” for him: “He was not just an agent, he was everything to me. I miss him, we all miss him.”
