The agent of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Mino Raiola, talked to the media update today about the health of his client. Ibrahimovic went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, to undergo knee surgery and repairing severe ligament damage. According to Mino Raiola, Ibrahimovic is astounding his doctors.
To hear the super-agent tell it, Ibra is a medical marvel of sorts, with the medicine team even wanting to bring him back later for research purposes, because seemingly the Swede has shown something they have never seen before.
(Yes, obviously, this needs to be taken with a grain of salt, as the hyperbole and embellishment here is just off the charts!)
“His knee is so strong that the doctors said they had never seen anything like it,” Mino Raiola is quoted in Expressen.
“He has a knee that it is almost impossible for a football player with a 20-year career to have. It was quite clean, there was no harm in it. Zlatan is so strong that the doctor wants him back after his career to research on him.”
“They work in the world’s best research institutions for the knees and ligaments.
“They research a lot on the subject and that is why they are better than everyone else. And the doctors want back Zlatan to do research on him. So after Zlatan’s career, we will go back and open him up again to do research on his ligaments.”
I’m sure there is some truth to what Raiola is saying, but that is definitely the words of an agent right there, and an agent who is really working it hard!
So there you have it- Ibra’s career will continue, sometime and somewhere. Far and away United’s leading scorer this season, his one year deal concludes at the end of the year.
Where he plays football next year is truly up in the air right now. His former teammate, Bastian Schweinsteiger, thinks that Ibrahimovic should join him in MLS, and the Swede does have two lucrative offers on the table already from both Los Angeles Major League Soccer clubs.
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