John Terry cheekily hinted that Zlatan Ibrahimovic wouldn’t have began for Chelsea had he signed throughout his profession.
Ibrahimovic is one among soccer’s biggest ever strikers and loved an illustrious profession that noticed him win a complete of 32 trophies.
The Swedish legend starred for golf equipment together with Barcelona, Manchester United and AC Milan, in addition to Paris Saint-Germain the place he scored an unimaginable 156 objectives in 180 appearances.
A lot of his success got here between 2006 and 2016, throughout which era Chelsea have been Premier League and Champions League winners.
Ibrahimovic was reportedly of curiosity to the Blues eight years in the past however has since revealed why selected to not transfer to Stamford Bridge.
As quoted by 365scores on Instagram, he’s reported to have stated: “Chelsea could not signal me, I’ve extra trophies than Chelsea. I ought to have been the one to signal them.”
Nevertheless, Chelsea’s legendary captain Terry took to the feedback and revealed his reasoning as to why Ibrahimovic did not’ signal.
“He didn’t wish to be on the bench,” he stated, with the previous centre-back additionally tagging his fellow Blues icon Didier Drogba.
Drogba is the third highest goalscorer in Chelsea’s historical past having netted 164 objectives in all competitions throughout his two spells on the membership.
He first joined from Marseille in 2004 underneath Jose Mourinho and helped the membership win their first league title in 50 years.
One other Premier League triumph got here within the following yr amongst different varied honours that he shared alongside Terry.
Drogba’s most notable contribution to Chelsea got here within the 2012 Champions League closing towards Bayern Munich at their Allianz Area.
The Ivorian scored an 88th minute equaliser to ship the match to extra-time earlier than netting the profitable penalty within the shootout.
It was Chelsea’s first ever title win within the competitors and Drogba left simply weeks later however returned in 2014, once more underneath Mourinho.
He received a fourth Premier League throughout his one season again in west London and was given a hero’s send-off in his closing look.
Drogba and Ibrahimovic by no means confronted one another on the pitch, though the latter did play towards Chelsea on seven events.
Two of these got here with United within the Premier League and the remainder at PSG within the Champions League throughout three consecutive seasons.
Ibrahimovic was despatched off of their final 16 second leg conflict within the 2014/15 marketing campaign however scored two objectives over each legs within the following season to ship PSG to the quarter-finals.