Is he Brazilian?
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Is he Brazilian?
haha true enough... But in the modern day with TVs at every stadium you would have thought people would come up with better alternatives , I'm yet to see many
Can we change the poll to where do we think he's going?
That'll be a more fun discussion than the endless "yes sign him cos he's good" "no don't sign him he's a wan*er" back and forth.
That'll be a more fun discussion than the endless "yes sign him cos he's good" "no don't sign him he's a wan*er" back and forth.
Bringing him in could go either way at this point, but I think it might be worth the gamble to have someone of his calibre. Someone with the ability to turn a match in an instant. Lord knows we lack inspiration up front (Martial excepted)
I'd be very interested to see the maths for this. I don't know how much profit the club makes per shirt sold, but let's assume it's about £15. For Ibrahimovic to pay for a weekly wage of £300,000 through increased shirt sales then we'd have to sell extra 20,000 shirts every week for the duration of his contract. So he'd need to increase our shirt sales by 1.04 million for every year of his contract.
I don't know exactly how many shirts we sell per year at the moment but it seems like the season before last the figure was about 1.49 million.
So for Ibrahimovic to pay his way through shirt sales he'd have to increase our shirt sales by 70% to 2.53 million per year, blowing the 1.56 million of our nearest competitor (Real Madrid) out of the water. I can't see any reason to think that he'd have that kind of astronomical (surely unpredecented) impact on our shirt sales.
Obviously that's all very back-of-an-envelope so I'd be curious to see any more convincing figures, but consider me sceptical.
Shirt sales aside, you could make a qualitative argument that Ibra @ United would raise the profile of the club, its brand, and global fan base to a point where the wages would be easily recouped, and then some. He's a high profile Cantona-esque player who would surely garner more attention most transfers, and if we win the league and/or make the CL on top of it, then it would be well worth investment. Naturally, none of that is likely if LvG stays.
Maybe I'm just totally out of touch but I can't understand why people are so confident that signing Ibrahimovic in the twilight of his career is going to shift the tectonic plates of global football popularity and wildly expand our global appeal. On Twitter Ibrahimovic has 3.5 million followers. By comparison, Ronaldo has 42 million and Neymar has 22 million. Falcao has 9.7 million. Obviously that's not a precise measure of popularity, but it does make me wonder why some people seem to think signing him would drastically affect United's profile.
Falcao followers increased dramatically when he joined United. So would Ibras
I'd rather not to be honest,
I'd rather we loaned out Rashford, sell Rooney, and buy a proper Striker (Kane/Lukaku/Lacazette) and make him a proper striker of Manchester United without having to share it with Rooney/rashford/wilson/keane/Deepay
It's amazing what one world class player in one position can contribute (DDG), we need move heaven and earth to get that 1 coveted striker we need, and maybe Ibra can come in as back up.
Enough fecking around.
PS: Rasford is far from ready, I don't even think he'll ever be good enough for United when the push comes to shove.
I'd rather we loaned out Rashford, sell Rooney, and buy a proper Striker (Kane/Lukaku/Lacazette) and make him a proper striker of Manchester United without having to share it with Rooney/rashford/wilson/keane/Deepay
It's amazing what one world class player in one position can contribute (DDG), we need move heaven and earth to get that 1 coveted striker we need, and maybe Ibra can come in as back up.
Enough fecking around.
PS: Rasford is far from ready, I don't even think he'll ever be good enough for United when the push comes to shove.
He'd bring some much needed excitement both on and off the field. We desparetely need that (Martial aside).
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Well if joining United is what accounts for Falcao being nearly three times as popular than Ibrahimovic then it seems like United have a much higher profile than the player, and it's hard to understand how he's going to bring about an immediate 70% increase in shirt sales.
A classique in the final of the Coupe de France is a nice game to end his career in Paris.
If he could score a hat trick. I know I'm greedy.
If he could score a hat trick.
I know I'm greedy.No its because we push that side of the players profile.Memphis sold the 3rd most shirts at the start of this season, just because he joined United and had a profile for instance. Ibra would certainly outsell him.
In any case who cares about shirt sells, he is a quality player who can score and assist goals which as a team we are desperately lacking.
Well, maybe he'd get goals and assists for us, maybe he wouldn't. I'm not sure it's as clear cut as some posters on here would have you believe but it's a credible position.
I'm just responding to posts saying that, despite his massive wage, any goals and assists would basically come for free as they'd be more than paid for through increased merchandise. It's very hard to see how that would be the case.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic closer to Manchester United than LA Galaxy
According to our colleagues at BeIN Sports (TV Channel owned by Qatar) , PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s next destination is unlikely to be LA Galaxy, contrary to initial reports from Sky Italia earlier this week suggesting that this would be the case.
Instead, the French media outlet is reporting that the Swedish international is, at the time of writing, closer to a move to Manchester United than anywhere else.
More undoubtedly to follow in the coming days.
According to our colleagues at BeIN Sports (TV Channel owned by Qatar) , PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s next destination is unlikely to be LA Galaxy, contrary to initial reports from Sky Italia earlier this week suggesting that this would be the case.
Instead, the French media outlet is reporting that the Swedish international is, at the time of writing, closer to a move to Manchester United than anywhere else.
More undoubtedly to follow in the coming days.
I'm done with Sky Italia.
Tonight PSG-NANTES - last game at the Parc des Princes
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Surely Zlatan is waiting for a resolution on LvG's fate and Mourinho coming before he considers fecking off to the retirement league.
Love him to sign, not only for what he can still do, but I honestly think he could be like Cantona was for our young players in the mid-90s. His influence and presence is so massive, there is so much to learn from him. I get he's 34/35, but for a season or two its a no brainer. We could really do with some big learders in our squad at the minute. Schweinsteiger and Zlatan could be leaders in our dressing room.
Definitely. Unless the Zlatan to United rumours are total BS from the start, I can't see why he would consider a transfer to us at all without the knowledge of LVG potentially leaving this summer.
Perhaps we are prepared to pay him huge sums of cash which no other European team would consider matching?
Tonight PSG-NANTES - last game at the Parc des Princes
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Damn that guy is cool
Ibra scores tonight
17 minutes as of now: 1 goal not so bad.
Just scored.
Yea, if Zlatan chooses us before Mourinho is announced, then its still a certainty that LVG won't be our manager next season. However, this news that Zlatan is leaning towards signing for us rather than go to MLS now also suggests that Mourinho is already a done deal.
Verratti in the crowd holding a Zlatan-mask 
Seriously. There seems to be a significant number of posts here which are against the idea of signing Zlatan or undecided. So its not one sided at all. No need to be condescending.
We sign a Kane/Lukaku and Rashford will peobably never get a real chance to shine at United. If we want to bring him through, we would get an Ibra type of player. Late in their career so wont mind being rested.
I personally hate the whole loaning of players.
Verratti in the crowd holding a Zlatan-mask
Indeed, everyone has been offered a Zlatan mask in the stadium
Not necessarily no, it depends on who else we sign and who the manager is next year. If we sign some quality wingers (Right and Left) or for instance Mourinho could get one Januzaj and/or Depay playing well and sign a good RW then Between Martial and Rashford with Rooney backing them up. I think we would be fine.
As i said United might need a striker but we don't need Ibrahimovic. It would be nice to have a player like him especially if he can keep his performance levels up. But United don't need any particular player, there are more quality strikers in the world than Ibrahimovic.
''Could you quote the posts that oversell the French league?''
Listen perhaps some of you are not intentionally overstating the quality of the French league. But in my opinion it's not a strong league right now. So if someone disagrees with that (which they quite often do in here) and they are entitled to their own opinion of course. But for me when someone tells me it's not a weak league because of xyz then because of how i poorly rate Ligue 1 then they are overrating the league in my opinion.
You believe huge sums of cash would sway this big egomaniac given his financially very rewarding stint at PSG and him having no love for LVG? Or that LVG being stubborn as he is would actually identify Ibrahimovic as a signing himself?
Oh my!
Thank you for your answers.
Everyone agrees with you regarding the level of the French league.
MUFC needs at least one 1 offensive player: who could make the job according to you? And what is his market value by the same way?
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