Tottenham fans have got a lot to think about now that they’ve waved goodbye to Mauricio Pochettino and welcomed Jose Mourinho to the club, including their transfer business. Links to ex-Mourinho players are inevitable, and the first major one is an awfully bad one for the Lilywhites.
The man in question is the former Barcelona, Juventus, Inter Milan and Manchester United, among others, striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Swede is being linked with a move to the club by The Telegraph, and it’s not a move that the Lilywhites are at all happy to be linked with.
The stats that Ibrahimovic put up during his time with LA Galaxy in the MLS were mightily impressive, but it’s extremely rare that a player makes the move from America to England and not the other way round, especially at the age of 38-years-old.
The wages, the age and the league all point towards this move being an absolutely shambolic one. The Lilywhites, should they sign Ibra, would have to negotiate a reasonable wage for a player who certainly won’t be a regular, and he earned £5,590,000 in the 2019 season with LA Galaxy which equates to just under £110,000 per week (Spotrac).
If the Swede is signed, he won’t be on a long contract and he won’t be one who comes in with the expectations of winning the golden boot during his time at Tottenham, even though he bagged 30 goals in 29 games in the regular MLS season (Transfermarkt).
However, those numbers just don’t equate to the Premier League, and the end of his spell at Manchester United in England was a poor one, as injuries saw him sidelined for the most of the campaign, as he finished with just five games in the league in the 2017/18 season and not a single goal (Transfermarkt), so bringing him back to England makes zero sense.