It’s unusual for clubs to empty out their pockets for a 34-year-old – but then again Zlatan Ibrahimovic is not your average 34-year-old.
Nor is the Chinese Super League your average football league.
When it became clear that Ibrahimovic’s days at Paris Saint-Germain were coming to an end last season, clubs weighed up whether or not the Swedish legend could still do a job at the top level.
Newly appointed Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho reckoned he could and his faith has since been promptly repaid with Ibrahimovic’s six goals in ten games for the Red Devils.
But United weren’t the only club in the market for the striker and their offer was definitely not the most financially tantalising.
Ibrahimovic’s agent Mino Raiola has revealed that a Chinese Super League side offered the forward a ludicrous sum of money but it was turned down in favour of a reunion with Mourinho.
“Ibrahimovic is the best,” Raiola told Il Giornale via Manchester Evening News.
“He turned down €100m (£87m) net from the Chinese. He doesn’t want more money, he wants to win.
“I’ve been lucky. I’ve always had champions.”
Ibrahimovic apparently rejected an offer £1.67 million a week so that he could move to United, where he is believed to be on £200,000 a week.
Some things are more important than money, we suppose.
And, to be fair, we don’t reckon Ibra’s exactly short a few bob.
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