Zlatan Ibrahimovic reveals Jose Mourinho once told him he should be ‘ashamed’ in front of his Inter teammates – but that the criticism only fired him up.
Mourinho came under fire during his Manchester United tenure for regularly calling out his players in public, but Ibrahimovic insists the Portuguese consulted his dressing room before going to the Press.
“When they say he is too outspoken in the media, if he is outspoken in the media about you, he has been outspoken to you directly,” he told the Mirror.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic reveals Jose Mourinho once told him he should be ‘ashamed’ in front of his Inter teammates – but that the criticism only fired him up.
Mourinho came under fire during his Manchester United tenure for regularly calling out his players in public, but Ibrahimovic insists the Portuguese consulted his dressing room before going to the Press.
“When they say he is too outspoken in the media, if he is outspoken in the media about you, he has been outspoken to you directly,” he told the Mirror.
“I had a situation at Inter where we had done a bad first half and in front of the team at half-time, he was criticising me.
“I was supposed to be getting an award for being the best player in Italy and he said … ‘When you go on to that stage and receive your award, you should feel ashamed. The way you are playing now, you do not deserve it.’
“Him criticising players is nothing new. It is all about how you take it. Me? I said to myself, ‘I will go out and show him and demonstrate I can do more and do better.’”