Ibra: Show ambition if you want me to stay
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC has told Manchester United to match his ambitions if they want him to stay next season, warning that he is not at Old Trafford to ‘ waste time’.
United are desperate to persuade Ibrahimovic to play for a second season because of his scoring form since he arrived on a free transfer from Paris Saint- Germain last summer.
But the 35-year-old is refusing to commit himself until he is satisfied with the club’s plans, and he continues to be linked with Los Angeles Galaxy and Napoli.
In his starkest warning yet that he could leave at the end of the season, Ibrahimovic told United’s in-house TV station: ‘I’m 35 and a lot of things have to be settled.
‘It’s not like I’m 20 and I have another five or 10 years. Probably I have one, two, three years so everything depends on what you want and what the club wants; what the vision of the club is because I said from day one I didn’t come here to waste time, I came here to win. If you want to win bigger then you have to create bigger.
‘Listen, if I had something to say I would already have said it. We are talking. Whether we were far from each other or close to each other, there is no news. There are still talks and let’s see what will happen. I am open. Nothing is done yet.
‘I came here without the Champions League. I came here with the team as it was. It was not a team that was favourite to win. I still came. I came to help. I came to do what I am able to do. To make it better. To bring the team to higher views, so let’s see what happens.
Ibrahimovic, who returned from suspension against everton last night, said United’s position of fifth is a fair reflection of the season so far.
‘ We are doing everything to create chances and to take our chances,’ he added. ‘The table of the competition is not lying.
‘The team is what it is and we have done I think a great season and we have won two out of five trophies and have two more to play for. There are still two months to go. A lot of things can happen. The nice thing is that we have not been losing for a lot of games.’