Arsene Wenger Wanted To Sign Me – Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Ex AC Milan striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has come out to share why he never signed with Arsenal. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he went as far as meeting players like Bergkamp, Henry, Ljungberg, Vieira at Arsene Wenger’s office when the Gunners showed interest, and he was actually starstruck to see them up close.

Zlatan added that despite the interest Arsenal showed for his services back then, he chose a different destination.

His words, “When I was young, I had a lot of interest from a lot of clubs, and one of them was Arsenal.”

“So, I came to the office of Mr Arsene Wenger, and it was a big hype because I saw these players, Bergkamp, Henry, I saw Ljungberg, I saw Vieira, I saw all these players, and I was like ‘F**k, this is big’, because these players I see on TV, even if I already played in high level Sweden.

But this was big, because this was like, ‘I am here now’. Last week I was playing PlayStation with these guys. And I spoke with Wenger, and he has this French, he was tall, I didn’t expect him to be so tall.”

I came in his office and we spoke and he was like, ‘What do you want?’ He wanted to get to know me, to feel me. Because I think he is a type of person, he just don’t buy the player, he wants to know what he is buying I think. In the end, he had an Arsenal shirt with Number 9 and, ‘We want you to come and do a trial for two weeks.”