Zlatan Ibrahimovic's long and winding career is set to take another turn. Manchester United released the veteran striker, despite earlier indicating they'd pick up the second-year option in his contract. Things change, though, and a significant knee injury for the 35-year-old Swede means he wouldn't be ready to play again until January 2018, by most estimations.
Assuming Zlatan doesn't retire (please don't!), here are 9 possible landing spots — some definitely most plausible than others — ranked by likelihood.
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Malmo
Ibrahimovic cut his teeth as a senior player in his native Sweden (that's him in a Sweden kit), so could he return to where it all began?