Perhaps Zlatan Ibrahimović is not ready to take over as coach right now. Moreover, even though he is 40 years old, his fitness is still good enough. Last season, he also performed in 23 matches in Serie A. He’s not just a player. He assists in strengthening the morale of the players. With an experienced player like Zlatan Ibrahimović in the squad, other players on the team can be stress free. As a result, the performance of the team is good. Zlatan Ibrahimovic will probably take over as coach in the next two to three years.
I can understand that he may not be ready for coaching, or he is not a terrible player, ok, that's fine. But do you really think that he deserves to be the highest paying player in Milan? I mean is he the player that provides the most to the team? Maybe 10 years ago, but right now he is not a player that provides as much as possible, he is not the top contributor, even as a striker, he doesn't score that much anymore.
This is why I believe that, if Milan wants to keep him and if Ibrahimovic wants to play, then it's fine and I am not going to argue against that, but remember that he should be getting paid a lot less, like half of what he is getting paid, then it would make sense.
In the case of Ibrahimovic it is not about scoring a lot of goals, the influence of a senior player like Ibrahimovic still has a big contribution to the team even though he doesn't score many goals. One of the great contributions of a senior player like Ibrahimovic is to motivate and provide experience in every game to younger players, so it is not surprising that at an old age Milan are still willing to extend Ibrahimovic's contract. But about being a coach, I'm really not sure Ibrahimovic will do it, because there's a lot more work after retiring as a player.
Ibrahimovic's contract extension with AC Milan has been confirmed by Fabrizio Romano, AC Milan's management has extended Ibrahimovic's contract
until June 2023, the aim is to motivate other AC Milan players. Because Ibrahimovic proved successful in making the AC Milan squad have
a winning mentality, which ultimately made AC Milan win the Scudetto. Therefore although Ibrahimovic is currently suffering from a serious knee injury
and his recovery will take about 7 months. This did not make AC Milan management hesitate to extend Ibrahimovic's contract, because AC Milan
doesn't really expect Ibrahimovic to score a lot of goals for AC Milan, or can play in multiple matches. But what AC Milan needs is Ibrahimovic's
contribution in terms of providing motivation.
Because winning a trophy can't just rely on a good strategy, but it's very important to have a winning mentality. That's what AC Milan had when they
won the Serie A trophy in the 2021/2022 season. And in the 2022/2023 season AC Milan needs another winning mentality, that's the importance of
the figure of Ibrahimovic. Incredible in October Ibrahimovic will be 41 years old, it's a great achievement for Ibrahimovic, because there are not
many players who are still playing over the age of 40.