PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be out of contract at the end of the season, with his current deal with the Ligue 1 champions ending in one-and-a-half month, and has thus been linked with a move to the English Premier League.
On Sunday, the 34-year-old striker scored a hat-trick in 9 minutes – four in the full 90 minutes – en route to Les Parisiens’ 9-0 thrashing of Troyes, a win which saw the club officially clinch their four consecutive league crown.
Zlatan scored 4 on Sunday to take his goal tally for PSG to 102
Speaking to beIN Sports (as per ESPN FC) after the final whistle, the former AC Milan striker confirmed that as of now, he’ll leave Parc des Princes after the current campaign wraps up.
"I always had a good relationship with the fans," he said. "With the club, they always took care of me. "I have always had great relationship with everybody, no question about it. But, for the moment, I am not in PSG next year.
"I have one-and-a-half months to stay here. I will enjoy while I'm still here. What happens next year, I don't know but for the moment I am not here I will not be here."
However, the confident – some may say arrogant – forward did reveal, rather joke about, the one condition in which he may rethink leaving PSG: if they replace the Eiffel Tower with a statue of him.
“If they replace the Eiffel Tower with a statue of me, then I will stay. I promise.”
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has promised to stay at PSG if they replace the Eiffel Tower with a statue of him! pic.twitter.com/2UPe8NhBqS
— The Football Café (@thefootballcafe) March 14, 2016
Replace the Eiffel Tower with Zlatan we need to see this.
— START ELNENY (@BasedChasen) March 14, 2016
Zlatan: "If they replace the Eiffel Tower with a statue of myself then I will stay at PSG, I promise." pic.twitter.com/ghjGydYZb8
— TheSPORTbible (@TSBible) March 13, 2016
Zlatan: “I don’t believe they [PSG] can change the Eiffel for my statue, so… but if they can I will stay here, I promise you!”
— Liam (@OffsideLiam) March 13, 2016
Unreal.
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