Several years ago, PSG gained great fame worldwide based on a large investment of money that allowed the arrival of several superstars to the team with the intention of boosting the club in search of the long-awaited UEFA Champions League that was on the verge of to achieve in 2020 and that slipped away against Bayern Munich.
Although Lionel Messi has been the most brilliant arrival, like Neymar and Kylian Mbappé, there were several world stars who arrived over the course of a decade. But it was Zlatan Ibrahimovic who marked a milestone in the history of the French club before the arrival of the aforementioned.
Recently, more than a decade after his landing in France and since retirement, he recalled details of that event that generated a great stir in the world of football: “In Paris it was a complicated adventure. I honestly didn’t want to leave Milan, there I had found happiness again. Before going on vacation I told Galliani that I wanted to meet him and asked him to promise me that he would not sell me out”.
Ibra also pointed out that “he couldn’t play in fields where there were two thousand people” because “he was used to 80,000 people”. “Then, little by little, I became convinced, but on my own terms. In the contract I asked for some absurd clauses and conditions, inside I said that they would never accept. After two hours everything was done”, he confessed.
What had Messi said about his time in Paris?
Leo has confessed on several occasions how bad his experience at PSG left him. “The truth is that the first year was very difficult for different reasons. The second year, the first six months, I felt very good, very comfortable in the club, in the city, with my family. In the middle was the World Cup and I think it marked a little to all the teams in general, it marked the season a little, with such an important competition in the middle for the first time. I think it conditioned the season a lot. I expected to end differently, but well, it was two years, which, in general they were difficult for me, but they are behind me“, he mentioned months ago in an interview with Mundo Deportivo and Sport.
