Ordine believes Ibrahimovic is ‘changing strategy’: “At Milan’s bedside”

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has not had the best start to his job and his first year at AC Milan has been difficult. He has been in control of two mercatos, and by this time next week, he may have fired two head coaches. 

Milan fans know Ibrahimovic’s character very well, after all, he has been with the club in three spells – twice as a player before his management role. In his current role, he has added pressures and responsibilities, and it could be argued he has not yet adjusted to these.

Of course, Zlatan will always be Zlatan, and there is a certain egocentrism that lingers with him, that is him, though, and if the management did not want that, they would not have hired him. Perhaps, though, he wants to change that image after recent criticisms of his actions.

Earlier in the week, he had a public spat with Zvone Boban, calling himself ‘the Boss’, but since then he has been present at Milanello with a different goal in mind according to Franco Ordine’s column in Il Giornale (via Radio Rossonera).

“Ibrahimovic is changing strategy, he is now a manager at Milan’s bedside. To eradicate the depressed atmosphere following the late night with Liverpool and to try to recharge the group’s batteries and cement Paulo Fonseca’s bench, the ‘boss’ moved to Milanello for a whole day.

“First he attended the training session preceded by a video session dedicated to Inter, then it was hugs and a close “one to one” referring to the problems, not only football ones, that emerged in the Champions League challenge.”