{"id":218803,"date":"2016-06-01T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T15:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=218803"},"modified":"2016-06-01T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T15:47:50","slug":"man-utd-target-ibrahimovic-rules-out-return-to-malmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=218803","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd target Ibrahimovic rules out return to Malmo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Manchester United <span id=\"riirW\" class=\"intexthighlight\" title=\"\">target<\/span> Zlatan Ibrahimovic has ruled out a return to Malmo, insisting he is too good to <span id=\"AojVO\" class=\"intexthighlight\" title=\"\">play<\/span> league football in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Sweden striker, a free agent after his Paris St-Germain contract expired, has been linked with United and a move to China.<\/p>\n<p>He told the media on Wednesday he would reveal his next club once he got &#8220;tired&#8221; of reading all the speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahimovic played for Malmo, his first club, from 1996 to 2004.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to play for Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona and AC Milan before joining PSG in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the transfer rumours, Ibrahimovic told reporters: &#8220;I want you to still write a lot of stories, so I get excited when I see them, because I want to see who is making up the best story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I&#8217;m tired of it, I&#8217;ll let you know where I will go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahimovic is currently with the Sweden squad for Euro 2016, which is being held in France and starts on 10 June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United target Zlatan Ibrahimovic has ruled out a return to Malmo, insisting he is too good to play league football in Sweden. The 34-year-old Sweden striker, a free agent after his Paris St-Germain contract expired, has been linked with United and a move to China. He told the media on Wednesday he would reveal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}