Idiotic rumour of the day: Ibra to Bayern (and Guardiola)| Oh, and Rooney to PSG

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic could leave Paris Saint-Germain – paving the way for a £35million bid for Manchester United's Wayne Rooney by the money-bags French side.

Ibrahimovic is said to be disillusioned with life in France after less than one season, and could be ready to move on this summer to what would be the eighth club of his nomadic career.

That would leave the mega-rich Qatari-owned PSG free to raid the Old Trafford club for Rooney.

Sweden striker Ibrahimovic, bought from AC Milan in July, has already served three suspensions this season and is set to be the target of a £20m bid from Bayern Munich.

Incoming Bayern boss Pep Guardiola signed Ibrahimovic when he was in charge at Barcelona and the pair could be reunited in Germany.

The tempestuous Ibrahimovic has already stated that PSG will not be his last club, and Bayern said to be closely monitoring the 31-year-old’s situation.

Although Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson insisted Rooney is staying at Old Trafford following reports he'd be off after being dropped to the bench for last week's massive Champions League decoder against Real Madrid, that is unlikely to deter PSG from making a bid.

Currently leading Ligue 1 and in the hat for Friday's Champions League quarter-final draw, PSG are understood to be ready to test United’s resolve to keep Rooney, 27, by making a big offer in the summer.
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...chester-united-transfers-wayne-rooney-1761926

As an example of what Ibra thinks of Guardiola, his former boss.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has blamed Lionel Messi and Pep Guardiola for his failure at Barcelona, claiming that his former boss used to 'bully' him.

The Sweden striker, now back in form at AC Milan, was an expensive flop after joining Barca from Inter Milan for £40million plus Samuel Eto'o in 2009, but has lifted the lid on why he thinks he struggled and the blazing rows he had with Guardiola.

Ibramhimovic claims one verbal assault culminated in him shouting at Guardiola: 'you have no balls'.

And, after starting his Nou Camp career with seven goals in his first seven La Liga matches, the striker says in his new autobiography that things went downhill because Messi, the current FIFA Ballon D'Or holder, demanded to be moved position.

'It was a childhood dream and I was walking on air,' said Ibrahimovic. 'It started well but then Messi started to talk.

'He wanted to play in the middle, not on the wing, so the system changed from 4-3-3 to 4-5-1. I was sacrificed and no longer had the freedom on the pitch I need to succeed.

'So I asked for a meeting with Guardiola - for a discussion, not an argument. I said I was being used in the wrong way and that they shouldn't have bought me if they wanted another type of player.

'I told him what a friend had said to me - "you bought a Ferrari but drive it like a Fiat". The chat seemed to go well but then Guardiola started to freeze me out.

'I would walk into a room; he would leave. He would greet everyone by saying hello, but would ignore me.

'I had done a lot to adapt - the Barca players were like schoolboys, following the coach blindly, whereas I was used to asking "why?" I like guys who run red lights, not pedantic and strict rules. So I tried to be overly nice, didn't dare lose my temper.

'But after this I stopped trying to adapt. For example, at Barca players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous - it was no one's business what car I drive - so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.'

Ibrahimovic claims that he had a major row with Guardiola after a 4-1 win at Villarreal in May 2010, a game in which he came off the bench to replace young Spanish forward Bojan for just five minutes.

'(Pep) was staring at me and I lost it. I thought "there is my enemy, scratching his bald head". I yelled to him: "You have no balls!" And probably worse things than that.

'I added: 'You are s****ing yourself because of (then Inter manager Jose Mourinho, whose side beat Barca in the Champions League). You can go to hell!" I was completely mad.

'I threw a box full of training gear across the room, it crashed to the floor and Pep said nothing, just put stuff back in the box.

'I'm not violent, but if I were Guardiola I would have been frightened.'

Ibrahimovic says that he tried to make peace with Guardiola, despite Barca buying Spain's star striker David Villa in May 2010.

But the Swede alleges that Guardiola continued to 'bully' him, eventually resulting in a loan move to Milan, which was made permanent in the summer.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...onel-Messi-Pep-Guardiola-Barcelona-flop.html#
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Anyone else think this one is definitely a goer?
 
if ibra was the same age as rooney or only 12-18 months older i would swap for sure.

i would love to see ibra in a utd shirt. OT was built to stage a talent like his.
 
silly story, but at least the fee quoted for Rooney at least looks realistic.

Some of these £20m figures are just plain ridiculous.

The likes of Downing and Henderson go for around that!
 
Sandikan said:
silly story, but at least the fee quoted for Rooney at least looks realistic.

Some of these £20m figures are just plain ridiculous.

The likes of Downing and Henderson go for around that!
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not it doesn't. 35 million? andy carroll money? i know rooney is inconsistent but he isn't a geordie gorilla.
 
VoetbalWizard said:
not it doesn't. 35 million? andy carroll money? i know rooney is inconsistent but he isn't a geordie gorilla.
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You can't compare every transfer fee by the money Carroll went for, it doesn't work like that or there'd be no transfers in football if everyone got told that you have to pay this because Andy fecking Carroll went for that. The likes of van Persie would cost £100m.
 
Really can't help but love the crazy guy :lol: Great player, underrated for such a long time until he had to rip England a new one for them to accept he was world class. Would have loved to have seen him here at one point in his career, but there's no chance of that happening anymore.
 
Whoever wrote that story is a moron. Ibra and Pep hate each other. And this after the football writers bemoaned being criticized for the Times Qatar story being flimsy.
 
One of the biggest nobends in football, him and Barton in a room for me would be just lovely, I would pay to see that all day long.
 
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