Ibrahimovic: Target is the Premier League
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has told Sky Sports he has returned to Manchester United to win the Premier League title.
The Swede is back at United's Carrington training base for the final stage of his recovery following a knee operation.
Ibrahimovic, who signed a new one-year deal at Old Trafford in August, is nearing a return. And despite lifting the Community Shield, League Cup and the Europa League last season, says he is back to win the Premier League.
"I said I have come back to finish what I started," the 36-year-old said. "Everything I built up in the first season, obviously we won the three trophies, the ending for me was not the ending I wanted, or nobody wanted, especially after how the season went.
"The target is the Premier League. That is my target to finish.
"Everything I started in the first season, we will finish in the second one."
Ibrahimovic scored 28 goals in 46 games before his season was ended by a knee ligament injury suffered during the Europa League quarterfinal against Anderlecht in April.
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There was speculation the striker could call time on his career, ut he says the doubters only provided more motivation to make a comeback.
He added: "In that moment when it happened, it was easier for me to say that I would come back because then I had a challenge.
"The challenge was that I never had a major injury, and all these people talking that 'it's over' or 'he's too old,' all these doubts that I had in my whole career.
"When that happens, it triggers me because it gives me energy and an objective. I'm challenging what I am able to do, how far I can take my body.
"In the last years, when you're thinking how many more years you are going to play, that is where you are hesitating.
"But the injury made it easy for me. I had one target, and that is to come back and play the game.
"I will walk out just as I came in, I will not walk out limping.
"I will walk out the way I want to walk out. Even if I have to walk on water I will do that also."
Source: espn.co.uk
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