When he first arrived in the Carrington dressing room, there were a few players around and the first thing he said was, 'God has arrived,' the Spaniard adds, laughing.
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The club would win the League Cup and Europa League in the 2016/17 season, with Ibrahimovic netting 29 goals in 53 games during his two-year spell with the club.
Mata admits that the Frenchman's current situation saddens him. 'We had a lot of conversations about football,' he says.
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