Zlatan Ibrahimovic says the current Manchester United
side does not compare to former club Paris Saint-Germain - but says the
decision to swap the Parc des Princes for Old Trafford was "an easy
one" when Jose Mourinho came calling.
Ibrahimovic, 35, elected to end his four-year French sojourn in the summer, signing a one-year deal with United.
The move saw him reunite with Mourinho, with whom he won the Italian title during their single season together at Inter Milan.
The
Swede has never hid his admiration for the Portuguese, even detailing
in his autobiography 'I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic' how "Mourinho would
become a guy I was basically willing to die for" during their time at
San Siro.
“The team I signed for this summer is not as strong as the one I
left, but when Mourinho called the decision was easy," said Ibrahimovic,
speaking to Swedish newspaper Aftobladet.
"When he calls I have no problem coming, all we had to decide was when I
was to be presented as Man United player. The rest, the financial deal,
was not the difficult part.
"With all the new signings this
summer [Paul Pogba, Eric Bailly and Henrikh Mkhitaryan] people were
getting all excited, but it has been four or five years that the club
has not won the league or been in the top of the table. That is
something we work on."
“It was about the challenge really, and I
will never say no to a challenge,” added Ibrahimovic. “This is what I
wanted; coming to one of the world’s biggest clubs, that has had
troubles and not won much of late, and try the Premier League. That is
the challenge.”
