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‘Shut up, big nose!’ – Marcos Rojo reveals dressing room brawl with Ibrahimovic

Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marcos Rojo at Manchester United

Marcos Rojo has revealed the reason behind his dressing room brawl with Zlatan Ibrahimovic when the duo were still at Manchester United together.

Argentine defender Rojo and Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic – now at Estudiantes and AC Milan, respectively – were team-mates at United, winning the League Cup and the Europa League together.




However, they were involved in a major bust-up after a training ground incident escalated, resulting in then-head coach Mourinho being forced to break things up.

“Zlatan [Ibrahimovic] has a strong character, Ezequiel Lavezzi had warned me,” Rojo told Cielo Sports . 




“I knew he wanted us to give him the ball all the time, but during a game phase I saw him ask for it and I didn’t give it to him. I passed it to Paul Pogba.

“Then he started yelling at me, raising his hand, and telling me a lot of things in Spanish and English.

“I said to him: ‘What’s going on with you, big nose? Shut up’. I knew that if he caught me he would kill me so the only thing for me to do was face him.

“When he entered the locker room, I directly told him to close his mouth and stop yelling.



“We started to insult each other, and all our team-mates were watching us. And in the middle, Jose Mourinho was trying to calm us down.”

Rojo returned to his native Argentina on a six-month loan deal in the January window, his first move away from Manchester United since joining from Sporting in 2014.

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