MANCHESTER UNITED star Jesse Lingard has compared former team-mate Zlatan Ibrahimovic to legendary basketball hero Michael Jordan.
The majority of sports fans have been watching Jordan’s Netflix documentary series ‘The Last Dance’ in lockdown and Lingard is no exception.
The 27-year-old revealed the series – which charts Jordan‘s last season with the Chicago Bulls in 1998 – has inspired him and even reminded him of his former Red Devils colleague.
Ibrahimovic joined in summer 2016 and spent just shy of two years at Old Trafford, scoring 29 goals in 53 games.
And it was his name that sprung to mind when England ace Lingard was reliving the genius of Jordan.
Lingard told beIN Sport: “I have to say Zlatan. As soon as he came to Man Utd you could feel that aura around him.
“He had that winning mentality and that drove us, motivated us to win many trophies. Not many people have had that effect. He had that raw winning mentality, he’d played at big clubs before and had that mentality.
“He came to Man Utd and said he wanted to win trophies. At that time I was a young player, Marcus Rashford was young, as soon as we won that first trophy it made us hungry for more.
“I’d let’s say he brought that winning factor and winning mentality to the team.”
Ibrahimovic left United in March 2018, after an injury-troubled final season under Portuguese boss Jose Mourinho, to sign for La Galaxy.
But the experienced Swede clearly left a positive mark on the Three Lions youngsters in the dressing room.
The Red Devils won the Carabao Cup and Europa League with Zlatan in the side before he left to play in the MLS.
