"After my injury, when I was selected, I said to Jose Mourinho, 'I do not want to disappoint you or my team-mates. You had a Zlatan before the injury and you had one after the injury and I cannot give you the Zlatan that you are used to, that's why I will not give you this Zlatan because I'm not ready.'

"My second yr at United, I used to be not feeling prepared, I used to be feeling totally different, it was like I used to be beginning at zero and I needed to educate my knee learn how to play soccer once more.

“After some time my confidence grew, I wanted a brand new setting to really feel that I used to be comfy."

It was Mourinho, too, who was interested in making Ibrahimovic a coach.

And any possibility of that happening was ended when the Portuguese lost his job at the club in December 2018.

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