“I asked a journalist in Holland to suggest an agent, because the situation was not under control. After a week, he suggested David Beckham’s agent or ‘an Italian I think you will really like. He’s your style, one from the streets.’ It was Mino Raiola.
“The first meeting, he pulled out these bits of paper and said these are great players with great statistics. He showed me, Andriy Shevchenko, 25 games and 23 goals. Pippo Inzaghi, 27 games and 25 goals. Bobo Vieri, 24 games and 23 goals.
“Then Ibrahimovic, 21 games and four goals. He said: ‘How can I sell you if you have these statistics?’
“I believed in myself and said if I had those statistics, I wouldn’t need an agent, even my mother could sell me. This is why I need an agent. Mino laughed.”
