He is the exact type of player we need right now. Zlatan has won titles everywhere and obviously isn't over the hill. It isn't often you can add players like that to your squad and we need more senior figures like him at the club. Plus, he won't be here long enough to impede Martial's potential maturation as a central striker.
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He is the exact type of player we need right now. Zlatan has won titles everywhere and obviously isn't over the hill. It isn't often you can add players like that to your squad and we need more senior figures like him at the club. Plus, he won't be here long enough to impede Martial's potential maturation as a central striker.
If Mou comes here, this might be plausible...
Could have a Cantona type effect, even if he doesn't score much.
So good, definitely one of the best strikers in the world even at his age. Has been for almost a decade now. He will not slow down anytime soon either, his best strenght is his fantastic football mind and he's keeping himself in great shape physically. Never relied on pace, he's got great strenght and never had much issues with injuries. Would love for him to be a United player for a few years, but unless we get Champions League football next season that is rather unlikely even if we get Mourinho.
and I second what @Mchiael Goodman said, he could have a Cantona effect for us.
and I second what @Mchiael Goodman said, he could have a Cantona effect for us.
We absolutely have to get him for a season. He would bring a bit of glamour back to the club.
He would be a talisman and a game raiser for those around him. Could be the thick layer of icing on a chocolatey Mourinho cake. The message it sends to other potential recruits would be like hanging a Manchester United advertising blimp above their homes.
Agree. Hopefully he would score a lot too.
He would kill for Mourinho! 
I doubt he'd be as efficient as RVP was in his first season but his influence and stature in world football could lift the whole squad in a post LVG era.
I would be more than happy to take Ibra on.
I would be more than happy to take Ibra on.
If you have to choose between signing Ibrahimovic or Kane/Lukaku...
Which player would you sign?
Which player would you sign?
In their prime Zlatan by a distance. Nowadays Kane then Lukaku then Zlatan.
I'd take him with the caveat that he is a luxury transfer and not proposed as the solution to our lack of attacking options; I still want Kane/Lukaku/AN Other striker ad a longer term solution.
34 goals in his last 33 games, and people don't want him to replace Rooney for a season because he is 'ageing'?
For a season, he'd pummel this league. Especially with Mourinho.
He's better than Rooney mainly because he's technically much more gifted and far superior in his hold-up play. But his stats may be slightly misleading because PSG are way more creative than United right now and play against inferior teams in Ligue 1. And he's 4 years older than Rooney!
We should aim at bulding a new powerful team, not at finding stopgap solutions. Zlatan is a player that can thrive if the team is being built around him. It's pointless to build a team around a 35 y.o. and then begin from zero next season. The solution is to find a top forward who is yet to reach his prime or someone in his prime like, say, Lewandovsky. We shouldn't multiply the old strikers at the club.
That's a lot of "ifs".
The truth is that PSG are one of the big 4 teams in the World now and PSG is undoubtedly more attractive than MUFC, from every angle.
MUFC under Fergie was great. Now, MUFC are a 4th-7th place team.
The only way a player will leave PSG, Madrid, Barca, Bayern, is if they are forced out, or get a better offer by one of the other 3 teams.
We have money, but on the pitch, we are a team showing relegation form in the league and losing to Midgetland in Europa League. A team, which were created about 15 years ago and until a few days ago, most had not heard of.
What makes you think he wouldn't be able to score much?
He is the top goal scorer in the French league and he knows how to make opposition defenders panic (causing errors and goals).
And if they put 2 defenders on him (which they almost certainly will), this should free up Martial.
In any case, for me, it would make no sense for him to leave PSG and move to MUFC, unless he was forced out. And even then, there may be better clubs who may come in for him.
The bolded part. Terrible league and he plays for a team with 24 points and 44 goals ahead of their second place "rivals". He's a world class player, no doubt, but hard to judge how many he'd score at this age in a proper league, like England, Germany or Spain.
He has the attributes needed though.
His stats are obviously skewed by playing for the hugely dominant team in a one team league, but the qualities that have made him a top striker for the majority of his career are still pretty much in tact.
With no CL to offer again and the club looking decidedly shambolic I think we'll have a hard time attracting a striker who is at or approaching the top level. If Mourinho comes in I think he'd be able to entice Ibra and for a season or 2 it would help us get back on track.
With no CL to offer again and the club looking decidedly shambolic I think we'll have a hard time attracting a striker who is at or approaching the top level. If Mourinho comes in I think he'd be able to entice Ibra and for a season or 2 it would help us get back on track.
Would be a brilliant signing if we Mourinho replaces LVG. Would add leadership, quality and goals to our team. His age doesn't seem to affect his game that much. He was never one for pace so I can't see any downsides, especially as it would be a free transfer.
No doubt his stats look better because he is playing for the (by far) best team of his league, but he is one of the reasons they are so dominant. At 35 years of age, he is still winning games on his own when the rest of the team has come up short. Age is just a number, Rooney is nowhere near as well-conditioned (physically) as Zlatan is.
I definitely agree that we should be looking towards the future, but if no world-class young striker is available in the summer, I would be in favour of having Zlatan for a season to guarantee us a 30 goal striker in a team that, right now, is struggling to score goals. Rooney, though still useful, isn't the same as he was a few years ago. Martial is also years from his peak. Ibrahimovic would give us an RVP-style lift, as well - he is a born winner & would bring the 'fear factor' back to our team.
Who knows, though - I doubt playing in the Europa League for his [potentially] last season in Europe is very appealing to him. He still hasn't won the CL.
I agree with all points. It's hard to resist a player with the scoring record of Ibra, considering he's looking not much different than five years ago on the pitch, regardless of him playing in a one-team league.
I think we need to inject some personality back into the team. Would be a refreshing change to have a character like Ibrahimovic in our squad and it would do the dressing room some good too I reckon, in that sense I think he could offer more than just his footballing abilities to us.
Also we have young strikers and Rooney, so there's no need to spend big for now. So Ibrahimovic would be the best option.
If we got him in it would see us for another season or so and mean we can spend more in the other positions we need to fill. I'm all for it.
Whatever, I still think he's a bit old:
http://www.livesoccertv.com/news/17...aring-to-join-manchester-united-next-season/?
http://www.livesoccertv.com/news/17...aring-to-join-manchester-united-next-season/?
Anyone know how reliable Le 10 are?
I think Zlatan has some good years left in his tank! He is a clever player and know how to adapt. A beast in form.
No, thanx. We already have a overrated, overpaid, past his prime striker, we don't need another one.
Rooney?
Come to papa.
As long as we get rid of Rooney then I am all for this
If we offloaded Rooney or failed to secure a top striker then yeah.
I think it would cause issues if he was competing for a place.
I think it would cause issues if he was competing for a place.
It's the French source best known for making stuff up.
Of course Zlatan will be up for playing in the Europa league.
This is my caveat as well, he makes sense as a top striker to tide us over for a couple of seasons and allow Martial and Rashford to develop, but if him and Rooney are both here and starting every week we'd not be much be better off than this season IMO.
He's 35, buddies with Jose and hates Pep, he's also going to the US in 18 months, and we are still one of the elite clubs in the world even if some of our shine has been muddied over the last 3 seasons. I can see him fancying playing at Old Trafford in front of 75,000 on a regular basis.
Moving along then
Yes please.
http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/...perstar-being-certain-he-s-joining-man-united
Yesterday, we relayed an article in this month’s edition of Le10 Sport, which stated that José Mourinho had phoned Zlatan Ibrahimovic ahead of a possible move to Manchester United next season, such was the Special One’s confidence that he would get the job.
Making it quite clear that it was probably nonsense, we were somewhat surprised to see an article in the Manchester Evening News on Tuesday morning quoting Le10 Sport as saying Zlatan Ibrahimovic ‘is so certain he’ll be heading to Old Trafford at the end of the season that he is already planning for life in the Premier League.'
Now, let’s make things very clear: that isn’t the case.
Just to reiterate what we wrote yesterday, Le10 Sport simply write that Mourinho is already planning transfers for Manchester United and has added Zlatan Ibrahimovic on his shortlist to strengthen the club’s attack, who would like to give the Premier League a try before retiring.
Nowhere does it say that Zlatan is preparing for life in England, or anything vaguely similar to that.
The problem with such stories is that they are picked very easily, and spread like wildfire, to such an extent that in the space of four hours, the MEN’s version of the story is already in the Netherlands, Ireland and in The Mirror.
Despite being 35 in October, Zlatan feels he still has a couple of years left in him at the top level, and with 30 goals and 14 assists in 37 games for Paris Saint-Germain this season, you can’t blame him for thinking that.
His contract with the French club comes to an end in the summer.
Tom Coast.
Yesterday, we relayed an article in this month’s edition of Le10 Sport, which stated that José Mourinho had phoned Zlatan Ibrahimovic ahead of a possible move to Manchester United next season, such was the Special One’s confidence that he would get the job.
Making it quite clear that it was probably nonsense, we were somewhat surprised to see an article in the Manchester Evening News on Tuesday morning quoting Le10 Sport as saying Zlatan Ibrahimovic ‘is so certain he’ll be heading to Old Trafford at the end of the season that he is already planning for life in the Premier League.'
Now, let’s make things very clear: that isn’t the case.
Just to reiterate what we wrote yesterday, Le10 Sport simply write that Mourinho is already planning transfers for Manchester United and has added Zlatan Ibrahimovic on his shortlist to strengthen the club’s attack, who would like to give the Premier League a try before retiring.
Nowhere does it say that Zlatan is preparing for life in England, or anything vaguely similar to that.
The problem with such stories is that they are picked very easily, and spread like wildfire, to such an extent that in the space of four hours, the MEN’s version of the story is already in the Netherlands, Ireland and in The Mirror.
Despite being 35 in October, Zlatan feels he still has a couple of years left in him at the top level, and with 30 goals and 14 assists in 37 games for Paris Saint-Germain this season, you can’t blame him for thinking that.
His contract with the French club comes to an end in the summer.
Tom Coast.
I'd love him here. I think he'd bully the Premier League.
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