Zlatan Ibrahimovic has claimed that he proved his critics wrong after he won two trophies in a short period at Manchester United.
Zlatan joined Man United in 2016 and left in March 2018 after scoring 29 goals in 53 appearances and crowned that fete with a League Cup and Europa League trophies. Zlatan, now at LA Galaxy in the Major League Soccer, says he proved his ‘haters’ wrong as he achieved at his age what they thought was impossible especially in England.
“My challenge was, at the age I was, coming to England, where I had years of everybody was saying I wasn’t good enough. I like those things because they trigger me. They give me adrenaline. After three months, all of them were eating their own words. I needed new haters because all the old ones became my new fans!” Zlatan told MUTV.
The giant Swede added that he likes winning and hates losing but emphasised that he is not a bad loser in that respect.
“Wherever I went before United, I won, and it was my pleasure that it happened again in England. Winning is in my DNA, I need to win – that’s my mentality. I hate losing. I’m not a bad loser, but I hate it and I love to win. I said we would win and we won two big trophies. That speaks for itself. That whole first season at United was fantastic.
Everything was. I really enjoyed it. The family was happy, everybody was happy, the club took care of me and made it really easy for me. I just needed to turn up, put on my football boots and perform. When I came to United and I said I would conquer England, people were laughing at me. I wasn’t joking.” the former AC Milan and PSG forward added.
He is 37 years now and is yet to retire from active football. During the transfer window, reports were rife that he could make his return to AC Milan and others were that he would replace Christiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid.