ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC has vowed to “walk on water” before he quits Manchester United.
And the super Swede reckons he will do it by signing off with a Prem trophy to add to his haul of 34 medals.
Ibra is poised to be back on the pitch in 2017 after returning to training at Carrington.
His season ended prematurely in April when he damaged knee ligaments in a Europa League clash with Anderlecht, but United offered him another one-year deal.
The striker, who netted 28 goals in 46 appearances for United last season, says the injury agony has fired him up to prove his doubters wrong.
Ibra – who told Carlo Ancelotti he was Jesus while at Paris Saint-Germain – said: “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.
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“In that moment when the injury 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, challenges and an objective. I’m challenging what I am able to do, how far I can take my body.
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“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.”
This week Ibra, 36, posted a dressing-room snap with Eric Bailly and David De Gea – hinting he is back in full training.
Jose Mourinho says he does not want to rush him back, but Zlatan is champing at the bit.
Speaking to Sky Sports, he added: “I said I have come back to finish what I started
“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.
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“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.”
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