Manchester United target Ivan Perisic has hinted that he’d like to play in the Premier League.
“Last year I signed new five-year deal with Inter, I enjoy great status at the club,” he said.
“It is true Inter has not had the results it should have since 2010, there were some problems, bad decisions, but somehow I feel we are on the right way to return to old glory.
“I heard some clubs want me but they have to talk to my club and only after that could I join the negotiations and decide.
“If I was to change club, it could only be to a top league and top club.
“Only God knows what will happen in future, I am happy at Inter but we all know anything is possible in football.
“Honestly, I would like to test myself in all of the biggest leagues but the question is will I have the time, I am 29 and working to extend my career as long as I can.
“Yes, I’d like to play in England and Spain but I don’t know if there is enough time left.”
He usually plays as a winger, but can also be deployed as an attacking midfielder or second striker.
A product of the Hajduk Split and Sochaux youth academies, Perišić made a name for himself while playing for Club Brugge, where he was the Belgian Pro League top goalscorer and was named Belgian Footballer of the Year for 2011.
This earned him a transfer to Borussia Dortmund, with whom he won the 2011–12 Bundesliga, before signing with VfL Wolfsburg for €8 million in January 2013. He remained there for two and a half seasons, winning the 2015 DFB-Pokal Final, before moving to Inter for €16 million.
Perišić made his debut for the Croatia national team in 2011, and represented his nation at Euro 2012, the 2014 World Cup, Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup, reaching the final of the latter tournament. Instrumental to Croatia’s second “golden generation”, Perišić is the nation’s player with most goals created at the major tournaments (11), and the first Croatian player ever to score in a World Cup Final.
Perišić appeared regularly in Croatia’s successful 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, as they finished runner-up in Group I which sent them to second round. The team played Greece, winning the first leg 4–1, with Perišić scoring the third goal in 33rd minute. Croatia booked their spot to the World Cup final stages in Russia on 12 November by playing a goalless draw in the returning leg.
In May 2018, Perišić was named in Croatia’s final squad for the 2018 World Cup. In the third group stage match, Perišić scored in the last minute of the regular time in the 2–1 win over Iceland as Croatia topped Group D on full points. During Croatia’s semi-final match against England on 11 July, Perišić scored Croatia’s equaliser in the second half of regulation time, and later also set-up Mario Mandžukić’s match-winning goal in the second half of extra-time to give Croatia a 2–1 victory, sending the team to the World Cup final for the first time in their history.
He was named Man of the Match. In the final against France on 15 July, he scored Croatia’s temporary equaliser in the first half, although the match eventually ended in a 4–2 defeat to France. Perišić covered the most ground of any player in the tournament, running a total of 72.5 kilometres.