Zlatan Ibrahimovic has confirmed he
will be a Manchester United player next season, and will sign a one-year
contract on Friday.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who won four
Ligue 1 titles in his four years in Paris, will become José Mourinho’s second
signing for United, following the capture of Villarreal’s Ivory Coast defender
Eric Bailly.
Mourinho and Ibrahimovic have worked
together before, at Internazionale in 2008-09, with the manager later saying:
“A player who gave me as much as Ibra will always be in my heart. He is very
special, one of the best strikers in the world.”
United, who will formally unveil
Mourinho early next week, are also hopeful of securing the Borussia Dortmund
playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan, 27, after the German club admitted they had
received “a much improved” offer for the Armenian.
Mkhitaryan, who has attracted the
interest of several other clubs, including Arsenal, has been one of the best
attacking midfielders in the Bundesliga since joining from Shakhtar Donetsk in
2013.
United, meanwhile, have confirmed
they have added a friendly against Turkish club Galatasaray to their pre-season
schedule, which will be played in Gothenburg on Saturday July 30th -
potentially giving Swedish fans another chance to see Ibrahimovic in action.
United will also face Borussia
Dortmund in Shanghai on July 22nd and Manchester City in Beijing three days
later.
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