Zlatan Ibrahimovic on the Premier League: “In Spain, France, Italy, the technique is better”

Forty years old and all his teeth. After a troubled start to the season due to injuries, Zlatan Ibrahimovic made a thunderous comeback with AC Milan, who has already scored 5 goals and provided 2 assists in nine matches in all competitions. Eternal Zlatan. This Tuesday, the Swedish giant delivered a long interview to the British daily The Guardian, where he returns in particular to his time at Manchester United between 2016 and 2018. The opportunity to deliver his opinion on the level of the Premier League.

“The quality is overpriced from a technical point of view, explains the AC Milan striker. But the Premier League has different qualities: pace, intensity, he assured. You can be the best player in the world, but if you can’t handle this pace… In Spain, France, Italy, the technique is better. That’s why there are so many foreigners in the Premier League. They bring the technique.”

Despite a relatively short experience with the Red Devils, Ibrahimovic assures that she was however “belle“. “Manchester United are an incredible club and we have won a few trophies (…) But they talk too much about the past. When I went there I said, ‘I’m here to focus on the present and to create my own story’. But when you have too much it becomes like a loop. You gotta think about the present or you should go to the hospital and clean your head“, he explains, he who recently celebrated his fortieth birthday.