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Are Paris St-Germain nailed on to win the Champions League because they sold Zlatan Ibrahimovic?

Are Paris St-Germain nailed on to win the Champions League because they sold Zlatan Ibrahimovic?
Are Paris St-Germain nailed on to win the Champions League because they sold Zlatan Ibrahimovic? Are Paris St-Germain nailed on to win the Champions League because they sold Zlatan Ibrahimovic?

Paris St-Germain’s 4-0 surprise win over Barcelona was enough to suggest they might be capable of winning the Champions League.

But there’s something extra that might suggest they can become European champions for the first time.

Former PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a footballer well travelled and bedecked with domestic silverware, has never won the competition – but some of the teams he’s left, have done.

Both Barcelona and Inter Milan benefited from selling the Swedish football legend, in so far as they both won the Champions League immediately after he left.Ibra was technically a Barca player when they won the competition in 2011, but had been loaned to AC Milan, while the 35-year-old left Inter the summer before they claimed a historic treble in 2010.So could PSG become the third team to win the competition having sold the striker? Perhaps. Edinson Cavani is doing his best to make sure his team don’t miss the Manchester United man.

And as good a player as Zlatan is, it’s hard to imagine the French side could have played in that fashion with him in the team.

That said, is PSG’s ability to thrash one of Europe’s best teams a result of having had Zlatan in the side for so long?

A legacy for Zlatan? Let’s see if PSG can win the tournament first, shall we?