To celebrate the 500 career goals milestone of Zlatan Ibrahimovic , which he achieved yesterday by scoring a brace thus 501 goals, the portal Grandhotelcalciomercato.com talked to a sports director who knows him very well: Adriano Galliani.
"He still calls me 'capo'. In the recent Christmas, Zlatan saved me, I needed five playstation 5s to gift to my children, I could only find 3 and Zlatan said to me 'Boss, I'll take care of it'. It was easy for him."
"In 2012, Milan had to sell him for budgetary reasons. We didn't want to do it, I told him that we would keep him. We even toasted with champagne for that. But, his agent Mino Raiola warned him. The question was of an economic nature: the company had budget problems to take care of, we found ourselves forced to operate out of business. I was hoping to not sacrifice Zlatan Ibrahimovic but it was necessary. He didn't want to talk to me for a year. It was a really painful period: who knows what would have happened if he had stayed maybe even with Thiago Silva."
The relationship between the two recovered later. Galliani also told another anecdote: "He could have already arrived in 2006, but Calciopoli overwhelmed us too and we weren't sure whether to stay in Serie A or not. If I tried to bring him to Monza ? We talked about it."
