Zlatan Ibrahimovic He is about to turn 41 and has just had knee surgery, but he still has room for more in football.
The Swedish striker will renew his contract with the Milanthe last Italian Serie A champion, according to information presented by Fabrizio Romano, an Italian journalist specializing in the transfer market.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has decided to extend his contract with Milan! Zlatan will continue for one more season, the deal runs until June 2023. 🚨🇸🇪 #Milan @SkySport
Ibrahimovic injured his knee and his recovery will take 6/7 months but he will accept a lower salary. pic.twitter.com/4SBcxgBBgV
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 5, 2022
In May, the Swedish striker revealed that he had been playing for the past six months without it anterior cruciate of the left knee, which was swollen and required penetration to play, in addition to hardly allowing him to train. Ibrahimovic had knee surgery at the end of Mayafter finishing Serie A, so he is not expected to be able to play until 2023when Serie A returns to action after the Qatar World Cup.
So Zlatan will miss the Champions League group stagea tournament in which he has not scored a goal since 2016 (since then he has played only one game as a starter).
Ibrahimovic returned to Milan, where he played between 2010 and 2012. December 2019: was crowned champion of Serie A 2021-2022 and scored 36 goals in 74 official matches. Last season he scored eight goals and provided two assists. Juice 27 matches12 of them as starters.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic contract duration and salary
Ibrahimovic’s new contract with Milan will be one season, until June 2023, as announced by Romano. It is not officially known Salarybut according to what the newspaper Corriere Dello Sport had reported three months ago, Milan’s idea was reduced from seven million euros per year to 2.5 million euros. Romano reported that Ibrahimovic has agreed to take a pay cut for the new link.
