Every player who is around thirty five years in age, is subjected to lots of obstacles for his remaining professional career for obvious reasons and if such player signs for an English premier league club, chances for him to succeed in highly competitive environment are further diminished and this is something that is supposed to be happening with Manchester United new signee Zlatan Ibrahimovic who is about to debut his ManU career after playing a long and successful spell at Paris Saint-Germain. Despite his brilliant success ratio playing for the French side, experts have a different opinion about his new assignment; in fact, everyone doubts his success playing for the English club where age is the first obstacle for any player no matter how successful he has been playing during his young age. Former Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder Emmanuel Peti is one such pro who is strongly skeptical about Ibrahimovic debut in English topflight.
Actually, it has only been two days 34-year-old confirmed his joining to the Red Devils camp and we have raining views over his fate playing for the highly pressing side who is having a new manager as well. If we look at the record of ManU they never shy firing any player who fails to deliver in crucial games hence only time will tell how lengthy Ibrahimovic career will be playing for Old Trafford giant. Anyways, talking about his age and if he can cope with pressure of EPL, Petit said, “There’s already an emblematic player who’s starting to drag his weight around the pitch a little bit — Wayne Rooney — in a very physical league, where it’s often box-to-box and where you really ask your forwards to have a physical dimension.
“Maybe Ibra can bring a different touch, but he’s not the player that I was expecting at Manchester United, to be honest. Maybe I’m mistaken — I don’t know. I think it’s a bit of a gamble. He is a good friend of mine and we spent time together at Juventus and at Inter. We are still in touch once in a while and we have massive respect for each other. What I really like about him is his character. He is a winner — a guy who can drive the team because of his character and that is a very good signing for Manchester United.”
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