
On 28 August 2010,
Milan
announced on their official website that they had acquired the services
of Ibrahimović for the 2010–11 season. He was loaned out to Milan for
the 2010–11 season, with Milan having the option to purchase him
outright from Barcelona for €24 million at the end of the season.
[44][45] He made his team debut in a 2–0 loss to
Cesena on 11 September, in which he missed a
penalty late in the match,
[46] and scored his first goals for the club when Milan defeated
Auxerre in their first
Champions League match of the season on 15 September. On 14 November, Ibrahimović scored the only goal in a 1–0 victory against his former club
Internazionale in the
Milan Derby. On 20 November, he scored his seventh goal against
Fiorentina in the 45th minute with an over-the-head bicycle kick, passing
Alexandre Pato as the team's top goal scorer for the season. On 4 December 2010, in a game against
Brescia, he assisted
Kevin Prince-Boateng to give Milan an early lead and then scored the third goal by a powerful
shot near the edge of the
penalty box to give Milan a 3–0 win. On 12 December 2010, history repeated himself in the game against
Bologna
after he assisted Boateng to give Milan an early lead once again and
scoring later that match to make it 3–0, leading him to 13 goals with 8
assists in 21 matches in all competitions, after which he has been
compared to Milan legend
Marco van Basten by both the media and van Basten himself.
[47]
Ibrahimović received a three-match ban, after getting a red card in a 1–1 home draw against
Bari in March 2011 for
punching Bari defender
Marco Rossi in the
stomach.
[48] An additional three-match ban was given to Ibrahimović in February 2012, in a 1–2 home defeat against
Fiorentina, for supposedly swearing at an assistant
referee. Ibrahimović stated in his defense that he was
talking to himself in frustration.
[49] He won his first
Scudetto with Milan after a stalemate against
Roma.
He is therefore currently on a streak of eight straight league wins in
three different countries and with five different clubs, including the
later stripped wins with
Juventus. All agreements between Milan and Barcelona were confirmed on 18 June 2011.
[50]
In the first official match of the 2011–12 season, Ibrahimović opened
it in the best possible way scoring the first goal of a Milan comeback
to beat city rivals
Internazionale in the
Italian Super Cup. He also scored Milan's first goal of their
2011–12 Serie A season in a 2–2 draw against
Lazio. He scored his third goal in the first three games in Milan's Champions League game against Czech club
Viktoria Plzeň from the
penalty spot
and assisted the second goal. Ibrahimović justified his tag of the
carrier of Milan by scoring in many games, yet still providing many
assists. He scored in the next UEFA Champions League game against
BATE Borisov, a goal in Milan's 4–1 win over
Parma and two more in their 2–3 win over
Roma,
ending a successful month of October. November was equally impressive
for the Swede, scoring in consecutive games against BATE, in the
Champions League, and
Catania,
in the league. In the highly anticipated encounter between Milan and
Barcelona, Ibrahimović scored against his old club to equalise the game
at 1–1 but eventually Barça ran away 3–2 winner at the San Siro. He
ended November with a brace against
Chievo, his first goal took his tally of goals in
Serie A
to 100 goals, and the second from the penalty spot. Ibrahimović
continued his impressive form in December, and scored a goal in each of
five
Serie A games. 2012 started on high note for Ibrahimović, as he scored against
Atalanta
converting a penalty kick. He was the top goalscorer of Serie A, with
14 goals in 16 appearance, after the brace against Novara, of which
second goal, came after cheeky backheel. On 5 January 2012 in a match
against
Napoli on continuation of
Serie A, Ibra awarded a red card for slapping
Salvatore Aronica in an off-the-ball incident and will rule out of Milan's next three games.
[51] On 15 February, in the
2011–12 Champions League season, Ibrahimović set up all two
Robinho's goals and also scored by a spot kick, thus helping Milan win 4–0 over
Arsenal.
[52] He continued his goalscoring run in March 2012, with a hat-trick in a 4–0 away win against
Palermo at the
Stadio Renzo Barbera. The first two goals were assisted by Robinho and the third by
Emanuelson.
In the next three games, he scored four goals, two against Roma, which
took his tally to 22 goals in 23 games. With two goals against Siena,
Ibrahimović surpassed his previous domestic goal record of 25 goals. He
finished the season with 28 goals in 32 matches.
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He did say the "Transfer Request" was his "Biggest Mistake" but he shouldn't start thinking otherwise..We definitely don't want another Rooney Transfer saga..
Difficult to imagine united without Rooney..
In the future it's definitely going to be Phil Jones he has captain material written all over.
But, I think Rooney may just go down as the best supporting act in United's history. Always feel he has so much more to offer. Having said that he has accepted his role in the Ronaldo era and now hopefully the van Persie era with grace (dare I say). Hats off to him!
RVP is a leader on and off the pitch and everybody is in awe of him now and you wouldnt put it past Sir Alex to make him the captain but there is still the small taint of him having captained a rival before. Rooney wins it for me but I am good either way. Both are natural leaders and their achievements are such that no one would question back. Cheers for the article!
After that : Evans or Jones
It would be weird if RVP became captain since he was a gooner but then Cantona captained the team inspite of the leeds- Utd rivalry
If by future you mean that he will at some stage become captain for a prolonged period of time, I say dream on.