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Manchester United Transfer News: Latest on Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Top Rumours
- Updated: September 17, 2016
Superagent Mino Raiola has confirmed Zlatan Ibrahimovic wanted a transfer to Italian giants Napoli before agreeing a deal to join Manchester United from Paris Saint-Germain.
Raiola spoke candidly to Radio CRC (h/t Jack De Menezes of the Independent), and said his client instructed him to broker a move to Naples after being impressed by the club in 2005. The Swedish superstar wanted to end his career with the Partenopei after visiting the San Paolo Stadium:
Was Ibra approached by Napoli this summer? The presidents who talk to me, they know that what is said remains between us.
We chose United recently, it was our goal, Ibra was also the club’s aim, and we’re now where we needed to be.
All I can say is at Ciro Ferrara’s farewell game at the San Paolo, Zlatan called me and told me: ‘Mino, I want to end my career in Naples’.
That’s because the mentality of the Neapolitans is the one closest to his, and if the league remained as it was back then, he might have done just that.
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