That's how you do business.
Bring Zlatan Ibrahimovic on board for free, pay him a ridiculous amount of money for the pleasure of his company, watch it all return in shirts sales 25 times over.
So Manchester United not only have one of the world's finest strikers on their cards, they have a money-making PR dream and they have solid justification for breaking the world record transfer fee on a player they already had on their books only four years ago.
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/758994372486586370
£76m of real money. In one week.
At that rate, United could pay for an overpriced Gonzalo Higuain every single week. And that's only through one player's shirt sales.
So if the club do go spending triple figures on a 23-year-old midfielder, fans needn't worry - not that really were anyway. Caring about money when you support a club like Manchester United is just a face-saving exercise so opposition fans don't have any more undue ammunition on you.
https://twitter.com/BeardedGenius/status/758971605422776320
But, honestly, Zlatan has got this.
Even if they had to rip poor Anthony Martial's shirt off his back to get there.
Ibrahimovic is making a lot of money, but the Frenchman made a lot of friends. And they won't forget his number nine shirt being given up in a hurry.
https://twitter.com/LjanuzajMUFC/status/756948643689689088
https://twitter.com/Babygiwa/status/756965384633380864
https://twitter.com/Cassidy_9/status/757233312020791296
https://twitter.com/YMali24/status/757124045548560384
https://twitter.com/_Toluwalase_/status/756968706270457856
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