Zlatan Ibrahimovic, what a nutter.

"Joining Barcelona was a childhood dream and I was walking on air. It started well but then Messi started to talk,” Ibra, 30-year-old, writes. “He wanted to play in the middle, not on the wing, so the system changed from 4-3-3 to 4-5-1. I was sacrificed and no longer had the freedom on the pitch I need to succeed.

“So I asked for a meeting with Guardiola – for a discussion, not an argument. I said I was being used in the wrong way and that they shouldn’t have bought me if they wanted another type of player. I told him what a friend had said to me – ‘you bought a Ferrari but drive it like a Fiat’,” the Milan striker adds in his book.

“The chat seemed to go well but then Guardiola started to freeze me out. I would walk into a room; he would leave. He would greet everyone by saying hello, but would ignore me. I had done a lot to adapt – the Barca players were like schoolboys, following the Coach blindly, whereas I was used to asking ‘why?’. I like guys who run red lights, not pedantic and strict rules. I tried to be overly nice, didn’t dare lose my temper.

“But after this I stopped trying to adapt. For example, at Barcelona, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous – it was certainly not the club’s business what car I drive – so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to training and it caused a scene.”

The next incident took place after Barcelona’s semi-final exit in the Champions League, as Jose Mourinho’s Inter knocked them out. As reported by various media outlets, this is what Ibra has written of his “conversation” with Pep after the game: “(Guardiola) was staring at me and I lost it. I thought ‘there is my enemy, scratching his bald head’. I yelled to him: ‘you have no balls!’ And probably worse things than that. I added: ‘You are sh***** yourself because of [Mourinho]. You can go to hell!’ I was completely mad.

“I threw a box full of training gear across the room, it crashed to the floor and Pep said nothing, just put stuff back in the box. I’m not violent, but if I were Guardiola I would have been frightened.”



His new book looks golden.

 

defo gonna get it,sounds good

 

Love that saying!

 

the blokes a nutjob. But a pure legend, might give Pardew a ring later and get him interested.

 

Ibra and Mario up front.... It would be a beautiful disaster lol

 

im looking for a good read,any good autobiographies (footy) out there?

 

Ibra sounds like a right prick :L

 

If I was a 6ft 5 hard man and some little **** like Messi started to demand he played in the middle and I had to change for him. I'd be pissed off to.

 

Haha he's a class player, but I now see the reason why he doesn't stay at a club very long

 

Is it bad that I find what he's saying very reasonable?

 

Not footy, but peter kays is class

 

Huh, so Ibra comes in new to the club and suddenly he is the one who is supposed to be dictating how everyone plays. Messi had been at the club, scored how many, and won how many trophies before Ibra showed up? I dont get your logic. Size has nothing to do with it

 

I'm getting Jason Manford's book

 

totally deluded is he a dipper by any chance

 

he is class. Milan nearly signed Balotelli in summer as well, imagine those two...

There was an interview with a Milan player a while ago on the training ground and out of nowhere, Ibra ran behind him and drop kicked him in the head Mario's an amateur.

 

[video=youtube;_GvQVPZdd2o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GvQVPZdd2o&feature=related[/video]

 

that's it! What a ****ing mental case, I hope Milan DO get Balotelli

 

Paolo DiCanios is a really good read mate

 

[video=youtube;o00YbZV6eLc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o00YbZV6eLc[/video]

he likes kicking people

 

I thought ‘there is my enemy, scratching his bald head’. I yelled to him: ‘you have no balls!’ And probably worse things than that. I added: ‘You are sh***** yourself because of Mourinho

Is my favourite bit