“One thing surprise me” ‘They deducted £1 for a fruit Juice: Zlatan calls Man United ‘ small mentality’ club
“One thing surprised me: everyone thinks of [Manchester United as a to club, one of the richest and most powerful in the world and seen from the outside it looked that way to me,” write Zlatan Ibrahimovic in his autobiography titled ‘Adrenaline’.
“But once I was there I found a small, closed mentality.
“One day I was in the hotel with the team before a game. I got thirsty so I opened the mini-bar and had fruit Juice.
“We played and then went home. Some time went by. My pay slip arrives. Normally I don’t look at it.
“I only do so at the end of the year to see what’s come in and what’s gone out. But that time, I don’t know why, I was curious and realized they’d taken pound off my monthly wage.”
“I called the team manager: ‘Excuse me , why have they taken a pound off salary.’
The team manager had a look and told me: ‘It was the fruit Juice from the mini-bar.’
“‘ Are you kidding, seriously?’ No I’m not. Here, if you order something you have to pay for it.’
“Sure, but I didn’t go to the hotel on my own accord. I wasn’t on holiday. It was my work place and I‘m thirsty, I have to drink I can’t go on the pitch dehydrated.”
Going further on the incident, went ahead saying “Can you believe it? A quid? Something like that would have never happen in Italy. These are the details that make a different and earn the respect of the players.
“Every day I was asked to show my papers just to get into the training ground. I‘d lower my window and say to the person at the gate: ‘Listen my friend I’ve been coming here every day for a month. I’m the best player in the world.lf you still don’t recognise me, you’re in the wrong job.”‘
Zlatan, joined Man In 2016, He made 28 Premier League appearances, and scored 17 goals for the club. But it appears one juice box was enough to change his opinion.
