Dougie.

Sam.

We've got our first retrospective topic today.

Flick back through the pages of history.

Not too far, just a couple of pages.

For a player who very recently retired, we're talking Zlatan Ibrahimovich.

I'm the boss and the rest work for me.

Incredible Slatana Ibrahimovych.

World class.

I think the question we're asking is, how good was he and how does he stack up against the greats of the game in the last decade or two decades?

Now the stats are pretty convincing here. The answer transfer market is 827 appearances, 496 goals and 202 assists.

In an era where we do like our stats and we do like our goal contributions,

that's about 700 gold contributions in 827 appearances.

It's amazing.

The career path, Malmo, Iax, Uvei, Inter, Barsa, AC Milan, PSG, PSG, Man United, LA Galaxy, and then back to A.C. Milan for a little swan song before he retired.

The greatest Swedish footballer of all time without question.

Greater than Henrik Larsen and even greater than Olaf Melberg.

62 goals and 122 caps for Sweden.

But if you Google the phrase, Zlatan overrated, there's quite a lot of content.

I don't know if you've seen this, but there's articles from, among others, 442 and Yahoo Sports

and entire YouTube videos dedicated to the topic of Zlatan overrated. So he clearly didn't do it

for everyone. And that's what we're going to be talking about today. Obviously, he's a bit of a divisive figure. So let's drill into it. I'll start with this.

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