Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic looks to have ruled out imminent retirement, insisting: “I’m just warming up!”
The former Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United forward joined Milan on a short-term deal in December, but there is uncertainty over his long-term future.
Rossoneri head coach Stefano Pioli is keen to keep the player at San Siro, with a move to Silvio Berlusconi’s Monza or a return to his native Sweden having also been mooted.
It has also been suggested Ibrahimovic could retire when the 2019-20 Serie A season concludes in August, just two months prior to his 39th birthday.
However, in an Instagram video published on Saturday, Ibrahimovic said: “So you think that I’m done, that my career will soon be over.
You don’t know me. “All my life I had to fight. No one believed in me, so I had to believe in myself.
“Some people wanted to break me, but they only made me stronger. Others wanted to exploit me; they only made me smarter. And now you think I’m done?
“To all of you, I only have one thing to say: I’m not like you, because I’m not you. I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic and I’m just warming up!”
Ibrahimovic has scored seven goals in 16 Serie A appearances this season, helping Milan to find some resurgent form that has put them sixth in the table with two games to go.
Anaedoonline.ng reported that the 38-year-old Zlatan Ibrahimovic has claimed that had he joined AC Milan at the start of the season, the club would have won the Serie A in grand style.
Ibrahimovic who returned to the club as a free agent in January told DAZN after the game against Juventus “If I was here from the beginning of the season, we would have won the Scudetto!”
“There is still a month, so let’s see,” Ibrahimovic said amid growing speculation head coach Stefano Pioli will be replaced by Ralf Rangnick. “There are things that we cannot control.”
“Playing without fans is a pity, a strange situation. We do our job, we are professionals. It could have been the last time they have seen me live in San Siro.”
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