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Zlatan Ibrahimovic transfer news: PSG striker demands £600,000-a-week from Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United

Ibrahimovic is out of contract with PSG at the end of the season and his agent has revealed interest from the Premier League

Jack de Menezes

Friday 01 April 2016 08:07 BST

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic is willing to move to the Premier League after seeing interest from four English clubs who want to sign him, but he will demand a world record £600,000-a-week before completing any move.

Ibrahimovic is out of contract with Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season and will be free to negotiate a move away from the recently crowned Ligue 1 champions, and the 34-year-old has plenty of interest to consider for his next club.

Should he decide to leave PSG, Ibrahimovic could move to the Premier League after speaking positively of English football in recent weeks, but the Sweden international is also believed to have offers from China too.

According to the Daily Mail though, Ibrahimovic will demand a world record wage of £600,000-a-week, dwarfing the current Premier League record of Wayne Rooney’s £260,000-a-week.

A source involved in trying to bring Ibrahimovic to the Premier League labelled the wage demands “crazy” and cast doubts over whether any English club would be willing to fork out such a wage packet on one player in the latter years of his career.

“We would like to sign him, but the money is crazy,” the source said. “We get that he would be a significant capture, but is he really worth that money — and at the age of 34?”

Seven who could join Arsenal and and seven who could leave

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Seven who could join Arsenal and and seven who could leave

INS: Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain)

Age: 34

Expected fee: Free agent

The Swedish striker is out of contract in the summer and will be the top target for a number of clubs in Europe, North America and China. The PSG talisman, scorer of 141 goals in 168 matches for the French club in four seasons, has aged well and just led the club to their fourth Ligue 1 title in a row - the 12th of his career. Would offer Arsenal a genuinely world class striker for the first time since Thierry Henry left the club.

Seven who could join Arsenal and and seven who could leave

Toni Kroos (Real Madrid)

Age: 26

Expected fee: £45m

The German playmaker has seemingly slipped out of favour at Real Madrid, where Zinedine Zidane and president Florentino Perez are said to be plotting a revolution of playing staff. Kroos is another who will wanted by nearly every major club this summer, and there have already been hints that he wants to play for Pep Guardiola at Manchester City.

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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund)

Age: 26

Expected fee: £60m

The hottest striker in Europe has an astounding 32 goals in 36 matches for Dortmund this season and plays in a style that would appear perfect for Arsenal. However, the former AC Milan man is wanted by Real Madrid and has previously mentioned that he'd like to play in Spain.

Seven who could join Arsenal and and seven who could leave

Victor Wanyama (Southampton)

Age: 24

Expected fee: £25m

Arsenal have been linked with the powerful Kenyan for years but never seem to take the plunge. Francis Coquelin was brilliant in the first half of the season, but the Gunners' lack of options in central midfield was brutally exposed when he went down with an injury. Wanyama alongside Coquelin would give the Gunners a powerful midfield platform on which to build.

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Alvaro Morata (Juventus)

Age: 23

Expected fee: £40m

The Spanish striker has not found much consistency at Juventus, but has showed, especially in the Champions League this season and last, that he is capable of operating at an elite level. He only has 10 goals this season but the potential to be a truly brilliant lone striker is there for all to see. Has also expressed a desire to play in the Premier League.

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John Stones (Everton)

Age: 21

Expected fee: £40m

The early season hype around the Englishman has fallen out considerably. Stones started the season as one of the division's most assured defenders but an awful winter has seen him lose his place in a defensively suspect Everton side. Some critics see him as all style and little substance. But he is still very young and that comfort on the ball would be ideal in north London.

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Mario Gotze (Bayern Munich)

Age: 23

Expected fee: £35m

Once hailed as the next big thing, Gotze must be regretting the day he ever left Dortmund for Bayern Munich. The German attacking midfielder has made just eight appearances and one goal in the Bundesliga this season. Liverpool are also linked with the World Cup winner.

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OUTS: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Age: 22

Position: midfielder

For all his promise, Oxlade-Chamberlain is yet to deliver for Arsenal with any consistency, never playing more than 25 Premier League games in any of his five years at the club. He has just nine Premier League starts this season, in another campaign lost to niggling injuries. Chelsea and a return to boyhood club Southampton have been mentioned.

Seven who could join Arsenal and and seven who could leave

Kieran Gibbs

Age: 26

Position: left-back

Gibbs is not a good defender, too often caught far up the pitch and out of position. He lost his starting place to Nacho Monreal - a solid if unspectacular player - at the start of the season and has failed to win it back, starting only three Premier League matches this term.

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Mikel Arteta

Age: 33

Position: Defensive midfield

Seemed a year past his sell-by date last summer but the ever-loyal Arsene Wenger inexplicably opted to extend the veteran Spaniard for one more year. Zero Premier League starts tells its own story while his cameo at The Hawthorns will go down as one of the worst by any player this season.

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Seven who could join Arsenal and and seven who could leave

Mathieu Flamini

Age: 32

Position: midfield

Another player out of contract in the summer, Flamini is clearly not good enough for a title challenging, Champions League club, but has had to play important minutes in massive games. Wenger needs to move on from a player who has served him well but is no longer of any use at this level.

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Tomas Rosicky

Age: 35

Position: Attacking midfield

A case of what might have been for a supremely talented player, Rosicky's 10 years at the club have brought an average of just 25 matches in all competitions - Arsenal typically play 60. Always injured and without a single minute of football this season, the ageing player is just taking up a squad place that could be filled with an able body at this point.

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Mathieu Debuchy

Age: 30

Position: right-back

Another whose injury ruined any chance of a decent career in north London, Debuchy was excellent for the Gunners before that shoulder injury last season kept him out for months. In the few appearances he has made since returning he has shown he's nowhere close to good enough, while Hector Bellerin's rise has been unexpected and welcome. Has to be sold.

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Yaya Sanogo

Age: 23

Position: striker

Never ever looked good enough for Arsenal. Looked lost at Crystal Palace. Couldn't get into the Ajax team. Couldn't even get into the Ajax B team. How do Arsenal end up with these players?

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Ibrahimovic is believed to have concerns over the tax rate in the united Kingdom, hence the astronomical wage demands, but despite clubs interested in his services needing to pay an incredible £31m-a-year to the Swede if they sign him on the wage being asked for, his agent revealed that there is serious interest from the Premier League.

“With the exception of Manchester City, where there is (Pep) Guardiola, all the big clubs have knocked on the door,” Mino Raiola, Ibrahimovic’s agent, told Italian newspaper Gazetta dello Sport.

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