At some point, the world is going to stop listening to Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Thankfully, Sweden have already moved beyond him.

There was a time when the now-veteran striker and professional rent-a-quote felt like he was worth paying attention to.

Maybe it was the benefit of distance. It was easy to think, 'Look at what he's said about Pep Guardiola! Check out this ridiculous statement about English football! I'm not sure about the stuff about lions, but stick it on a meme anyway!'

Now he's clinging on to a wider relevance in the winter of his playing career.

Ibrahimovic has spent the last few months trying to involve himself in pageantry around the World Cup, a tournament he was never going to take part in and had no right to, either.

Sweden qualified for the competition without him. He had retired from international football after Euro 2016, a tournament in which he scored no goals and had only one shot on target.

Hmm