Fantasy Premier League: 10 New Transfers You Must Consider

Yes, he’s expensive. No, he won’t play every game. But he can do things with an orange that John Carew can with a football.

You might point to his age and say that he is 34. Once could retort by pointing out that a more important number is 50, which is the number of goals that he still managed to bag last season.

Ibrahimovic is defying the laws of age and physics with every passing season. It’ll be a risk to put in a player in his 30’s and who costs so much, but when it’s a player with such an esteemed pedigree as Zlatan, is it really?

Zlatan has bagged over 30 goals in each of his last five seasons, and while four of them may have been whilst plying his trade in the much-maligned Ligue 1, it shows that the ageing Swede still knows where the back of the net is.

He is one of the global superstars of the modern era, and English audiences are anxiously awaiting the prospect of welcoming to the league a man who netted all four goals against the national team in a friendly four years ago.

He will be in competition with Wayne Rooney and Marcus Rashford for a starting berth up front and there will be periods where Mourinho preserves him, but once unleashed, who knows what could happen.