Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Wednesday hinted at extending his stay at Old Trafford as he began talks over a new contract. The 35-year-old Swede has an option of playing for another year. Ibrahimovic moved to Old Trafford on a free transfer from Paris Saint-Germain last summer.
The striker has been linked with a move to play football in the United States, but United manager Jose Mourinho made it clear that he would love to keep the striker at Manchester.
“Let’s see what happens, we are talking,” Ibrahimovic said to The Manchester Evening News.
“I have an option for another year, I want to do great as long as I’m here, so let us see, there is a lot of time. I’m enjoying being at a fantastic club, without doubts, one of the biggest clubs in the world with a great coach. I know him before, he’s a winner, he’s the perfect coach for this club.”
Ibrahimovic has scored 26 goals in 41 games in his debut season and will look to extend his dominance next year as well. “Being a Manchester United player, I don’t know how many people have that possibility but I am a Man United player, people wanted me here, I chose the club, I chose the best English club, that’s the way it works.”
Ibrahimovic has won league titles in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and France. He will look to end his career with the Premier League title in his bag.
“I enjoy. I’m a person when I go into something I put my head 200 per cent into it. I go in, I go for the kill and I go out.”When I go out there is no complaints, that’s what I do. I never leave a job unfinished. I always go in, do my job, and in the way that is a fair play, a fair deal, that is what I do.”
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