Ibra's Book

Oh God I want a copy of it so hard.

"The president said: 'I understand the situation. Which club do you want to join?' I replied: 'Madrid.' Rosell replied: 'That is not possible. You can go anywhere but there.'"

"Rosell, [Milan vice-president Adriano] Galliani, [agent Mino Raiola], my lawyer and [Barcelona vice-president Josep Maria] Bartomeu were all there, and Sandro said: 'I want you to know that this is the worst piece of business I have conducted in my life.' I replied: 'It's the result of bad leadership.'"

LOL! This should be a movie or something

Imagine if every player came out with an autobiography

wow. Cant wait.

I want Cesc to come out with one.

He said he hated Onyewu, and in a fight Oguchi broke Ibra's ribs. Respect)

Some entertaining stuff. We'd all be fools to believe it's all the truth though.

He certaintly understands how to sell to a book, I expect it will do well.

Franchise mad.

:dance:

lol

Not me, I still like Ibra. Alot more then the robotic player personalities we usually hear from anyway.

But if I am seeking the truth, buying the book isnt what I would think to do.

Zealous wrote:Oh God I want a copy of it so hard.

"The president said: 'I understand the situation. Which club do you want to join?' I replied: 'Madrid.' Rosell replied: 'That is not possible. You can go anywhere but there.'"

"Rosell, [Milan vice-president Adriano] Galliani, [agent Mino Raiola], my lawyer and [Barcelona vice-president Josep Maria] Bartomeu were all there, and Sandro said: 'I want you to know that this is the worst piece of business I have conducted in my life.' I replied: 'It's the result of bad leadership.'"

LOL! This should be a movie or something

This right here is the reason I don't understand where his anger is coming from towards Barca. It was a bad fit, he knew it, the team knew it and they took a huge financial loss to send him to a place he wanted to go. OF course he wasn't going to Madrid, I don't even know if Madrid wanted him, so they sent him to exactly where he wanted to go.

They could have sent him anywhere else, City was offering huge money for him and instead they did what was best for Ibra not BArca.

Expect it to top the Bible in copies sold

You should never believe those books.....Torres' book for one example, all lies

Mods I suggest anything about Ibra's book gets moved here

Jag Är Zlatan’ – Top 15 Quotes From Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s Almighty New Book


Zlatan Ibrahimovic has written a book and, from the sound of the quotes that have been drip-dripping for the past few days, it’s exactly the kind of book that you’d expect – namely, 300 pages documenting his innate greatness and comprehensively listing all the people he wants to kick into the middle of next week.

Sadly, Ibra’s tome is not going to be translated into English for some reason, so we thought we’d bring you the best quotes that we’ve heard translated from the Swedish vernacular since ‘Jar Är Zlatan’ (I Am Zlatan) started circulating last week…

1. “I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it ‘Fido Dido’ after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

“The bike got stolen outside of the Rosengård swimming baths and Dad went there with his shirt open and sleeves rolled up. He’s the kind of person that says: ‘No one touches my kids! No one takes their stuff’. But not even a tough guy like him could do anything about it. Fido Dido was gone, and I was crushed.”

2. “I felt like crap when I was sitting in the locker room with Guardiola staring at me like I was an annoying distraction, an outsider. It was nuts. He was a wall, a stone wall. I didn’t get any sign of life from him and I was wishing myself away every moment with the team.”

3. “Then Guardiola started his philosopher thing. I was barely listening. Why would I? It was advanced bullshit about blood, sweat and tears, that kind of stuff.”



4. “Jose Mourinho is a big star…He’s cool. The first time he met [my wife] he whispered to her: ‘Helena, you have only one mission. Feed Zlatan, let him sleep, keep him happy!’ The guy says what he wants. I like him.”

5. “Mourinho is Guardiola’s opposite. If Mourinho brightens up the room, Guardiola pulls down the curtains and I guessed that Guardiola now tried to measure himself with him.”

6. “An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.”

7. “Lionel Messi is awesome. He’s unbelievable, but I don’t really know him. We are totally different. He came to Barça as a 13-year old. He’s raised in that culture and has no problems with that ‘school’ shit. In the team, the play is all around him, pretty naturally actually. He’s brilliant, but now I had arrived [at Barca] and scored more goals than him.”

8. “It was a childhood dream [to play for Barca] and I was walking on air. It started well but then Messi started to talk. He wanted to play in the middle, not on the wing, so the system changed. I was sacrificed.”



9. “I barely yelled at my teammates any more. Something had happened, nothing serious, not yet, but still. I became quiet and that’s lethal, believe me. I have to be angry to play well. I have to scream and shout. Now I kept it in.”

10. “I asked for a meeting with Guardiola – for a discussion, not an argument. I said I was being used in the wrong way and that they shouldn’t have bought me if they wanted another type of player.

“I told him what a friend had said to me – ‘you bought a Ferrari but drive it like a Fiat’. The chat seemed to go well but then Guardiola started to freeze me out.”



11. “I would walk into a room; he would leave. He would greet everyone by saying hello, but would ignore me. I had done a lot to adapt – the Barca players were like schoolboys, following the coach blindly, whereas I was used to asking ‘why should we?”

12. “At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous – it was no one’s business what car I drive – so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.”



13. “(Guardiola) was staring at me and I lost it. I thought ‘there is my enemy, scratching his bald head!’. I yelled to him: ‘You have no balls!’ and probably worse things than that.

“I added: ‘You are shitting yourself because of Jose Mourinho. You can go to hell!’. I was completely mad. I threw a box full of training gear across the room, it crashed to the floor and Pep said nothing, just put stuff back in the box. I’m not violent, but if I were Guardiola I would have been frightened.”

14. On reports of ‘excessive behaviour’ following Juventus’ 2005 title win: “It was the fault of David Trezeguet, who made me do one drink of vodka after another. I slept in the bathtub. Now I hold my vodka much better.”

15. When asked about Mario Balotelli’s recent tomfoolery: “I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.”

(The last two quotes are lifted from a Gazzetta interview with Ibra conducted during his promo tour – though the questions were based on excerpts from the book)

While we’re pretty sure ‘Jar Är Zlatan’ must touch on other subjects (surely there’s at least one chapter dedicated to Gerard Pique?), it certainly seems that at least 80% of the book is just full-on Pep-bashing which, in theory, should make for a decent read.

And remember kids! Only set off fireworks at kebab stands!

imfao, this quote made me chuckle

“Mourinho is Guardiola’s opposite. If Mourinho brightens up the room, Guardiola pulls down the curtains and I guessed that Guardiola now tried to measure himself with him.”

English version coming soon

Swedish version sold out,also available in Norvegian and Italian

LEGEND!

Look at this beast.

Hopefully they get around to translating it to English. Shut up and take my money definitely applies here.

U JELLY? :dance:

I'm gonna be honest though, probably won't have time to read it anyways... Buying it to support my man Z

OMG u have one??????

I jelly. I so jelly.

Adit wrote:English version coming soon

Swedish version sold out,also available in Norvegian and Italian

Any chance the Italian version is available as an ebook?

Also fail on their marketing department for translating to Italian but not to English

Italian = Milan. I've been in Milan, he is huge there. Everybody loves him. Everytime I said I'm from Sweden they greeted me with much love for the sake of King Zlatan

And the book is good, I've been reading a few pages. I'd read if I had time to, and the energy, but tbh the media is almost covering everything good in there. They are ruining the book

I have the book now .

It's definitely way more interesting than the David Beckham autobiography I read ages ago, money well spent.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:

Adit wrote:English version coming soon

Swedish version sold out,also available in Norvegian and Italian

Any chance the Italian version is available as an ebook?

Also fail on their marketing department for translating to Italian but not to English

dont know about e-books but that shit sold 100,000 copies in just 1 week in sweden itself.

Imagine how much will be sold when English version is out

Amazing. I so want one.

Balloteli needs to do the same once he's 30.