Defending Zlatan Ibrahimovic
James Horncastle
Posted on March 21st, 2012
Zlatan Ibrahimović is fidgeting in his seat. Malmö director of sport Hasse Borg is doing the talking. He is in Arsène Wenger’s office at Arsenal’s London Colney training ground. Ibrahimović is 18 years old and knows that what happens over the course of the next few minutes might decide his future. “I felt like a little kid when I stepped foot in his office,” he wrote in his autobiography. Earlier in the day, while driving in and parking the car, he’d seen Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp going about their business. Maybe one day very soon he might be playing alongside them at Highbury. It wasn’t to be, though. Wenger said: “You can do a trial with us. You can…
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