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Chelsea or Manchester City move off the agenda for Zlatan Ibrahimovic
CHELSEA and Manchester City have been given a firm knock-back by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
The Swedish PSG striker was linked with a move to the aforementioned Premier League powerhouses.
Ibrahimovic was originally coy about the Premier League but admits his immediate future lies in Paris.
"In June, I didn't know if I would stay at PSG, but then I met with president Nasser Al-Khelaifi and he told me that I am the most important player for the PSG project," he told foreign publication Aftonbladet.
"You must take us to where we dream of going'. It was a nice thing to hear and then we made an agreement. I extended my contract for one more year and now I could not be happier than in Paris.
"Day after day we feel stronger, everyone is talking about us, the opponents have a different respect for us, it's gaining the interest of the media and also increasing the sponsors.
"We are a great team now. Or, rather, we are becoming one because to be a really great team you have to win, not only the championship, as we have already done, but everything. We're working on it, we're getting there.
"Going to Paris a year ago was a risk, but I thought 'PSG is the future'. Now, I know that I did well.
"A future in the United States? I don't like to make too many plans, but one day, when my contract expires, I would like to play outside Europe, even if I don't know where."
Ibrahimovic signed a one-year contract extension in September keeping him at the Parc des Princes until 2016.