Zlatan Ibrahimovic fired a brutal dig at CBS Sports’ presenters on Saturday asking where Champions League hosts Thierry Henry, Kate Abdo and Micah Richards were, as he appeared on the broadcaster’s Serie A show.
The legendary Swedish striker was a guest on the show ahead of AC Milan’s shock 2-1 Serie A defeat against Parma.
The 42-year-old joined Italian football legend Fabio Cannavaro, former Leeds star Mike Grella and presenters Poppy Miller and Mike Messina.
But in typical Ibrahimovic fashion, the former Milan star joked with the presenters claiming that they ‘have to have the A-team’ on punditry if they were going to ask him to be on the show.
‘Thank you for having me,’ he said to CBS Sports. ‘But I thought, where’s the real studio with [Thierry] Henry, Kate [Abdo] and Micah [Richards]?
The former AC Milan star jokingly asked where Champions League presenters Kate Abdo (left), Thierry Henry (second left) and Micah Richards (right) were
‘Let’s go home! If you bring me in, you have got to bring me to the A-guys!’
His comments were well received by the other hosts who laughed off the jibe before the former Milan striker added: ‘Don’t worry, don’t worry I’m going to push up the level!’
Richards, Abdo, Henry and Jamie Carragher all appear on CBS’ Champions League coverage, with the quartet having become one of the best presenting line-ups in the game, thanks to their brilliant analysis and humour on the show.
Cannavaro then went on to question Zlatan on how he found adjusting to life in the Serie A when he first joined Juventus from Ajax back in 2004.
And the Swede, who went on to score 26 goals in 92 appearances for Juve before leaving for Inter Milan in 2006, didn’t hold back again.
‘It was different,’ he began. ‘Because when I went into the locker room for the first time I saw these guys beside me, and many others. It was like playing PlayStation.’
The Sweden international would join some illustrious names at Juventus, including the likes of Gianluigi Buffon, Alessandro Del Piero and Pavel Nedved.
‘The day before I was playing PlayStation with these guys and the next day I was playing with them, football,’ he added.
