Ibrahimovic reveals why he turned down Manchester City transfer and explains key problem United have with Ferguson

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has explained that he snubbed the chance to join Manchester City because he wanted to be happy in Italy. “I had the chance to go to Manchester City when I was at Barcelona but after that moment in Barcelona, I needed to find happiness," said  Ibrahimovic, speaking exclusively to Mirror Football. "Going back to Italy, I was happy in Italy and I knew I would be happy if I go back and I didn’t know if I would be happy if I go to City because it’s a different challenge. “It would have been a new club, which Milan also was. But I knew the city because I had three years at Inter, I knew the country, so I took a little bit of a safe card.” Ibrahimovic also believes the incredible legacy of Sir Alex Ferguson is still something successive Manchester United managers are struggling to come to terms with. He explains: “Everything that happens is judged by the era of Ferguson. They are saying if Ferguson was here, this would not happen, Ferguson would not do it like that. “Ferguson would do it like this. Everything was Ferguson. If it was me, I would say I don’t have Ferguson any more. And I come here and I want to make my own history, I want to make my own story. “So I do not want to hear what happened before. I want to do it in the present. You come in with a new mentality. Ferguson has his place in history at this club but now the club continues. It has to find its own identity and it is difficult.”

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