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.
Being a coach requires you to have a degree for it. Does Ibra have a degree for coach management?
Beside cerfiticates, being a coach requires different traits and with Ibra's traits, it is very challenging to become a coach. A similar player Genaro Gattuso became a coach so I don't say Ibra can not. Let's see.
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.
Without Ibrahimovic return and his fire on young players, AC Milan would have not won the Scudetto in the last season even in this achievement, Ibra has very little contribution because he was missing in most of last season by injuries.
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.
Ibra will want to play as long as his body allows him to do so. If AC Milan does not accept him, he will leave and find other clubs and do you think Ibra will play to mid of 40s like Rivaldo? He can, with his ambition and his love for football.