Most footballers nowadays are a little dull… “It was good to get the three points”, “the lads worked hard”, “credit to the gaffer”… etc and so forth.So it’s refreshing to have a player who does things a little differently still operating in the game we love… and that man is Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Swede divides opinion wherever he goes, and it seems that’s just the way he likes it, with controversy, spats, moments of rage and incidents of pure inspiration all in the ‘Ibra’ handbook, which, we imagine, would have to be handled with care!Last night after his controversial red card he claimed all XI Chelsea players, who surrounded referee Bjorn Kuipers, were like “babies”, but, quite amazingly, this is a tame outburst from the big man.Below we’ve got some of the best quotes, moments and eruptions from Zlatan… enjoy!

Ibra-cadabra

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Special goals are his currency…

On Aston Villa ‘hero’, John Carew…

“What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.”

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When questioned about hugging Gerard Pique by a female reporter…

“Come over to my house with your sister, baby, and I’ll show you who’s gay!”

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What does Zlatan buy his wife on her birthday?

”Nothing, she already has Zlatan.”

His Guardiola feud…

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“Guardiola started his philosopher thing. I was barely listening. Why would I? It was advanced b******* about blood, sweat and tears, that kind of stuff.”

"Guardiola was staring at me and I lost it. I thought 'there is my enemy, scratching his bald head!'. I yelled to him: 'You have no balls!' and probably worse things than that."

"You bought a Ferrari but you drive it like a Fiat"

Arsenal move… X-Factor is off the agenda, then!

“Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.”

How did he celebrate Juventus’ title win in 2005?

“It was the fault of David Trezeguet, who made me do one drink of vodka after another. I slept in the bathtub. Now I hold my vodka much better.”

‘We all dream of a team Zlatans!’

“I can play in the 11 positions because a good player can play anywhere on the pitch."

Better than Messi? Obvs!

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“Lionel Messi is awesome. He’s unbelievable, but I don’t really know him. We are totally different. He came to Barça as a 13-year old. He’s raised in that culture and has no problems with that ‘school’ s***. In the team, the play is all around him, pretty naturally actually. He’s brilliant, but now I had arrived [at Barca] and scored more goals than him.”

Never take Zlatan’s water!

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