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Message: [QUOTE="nomar, post: 3832554, member: 651"] I wonder how much he contributed through interviews. A lot of it rings true. But who knows. Hilariously, Zlatan Ibrahimovic's lauded autobiography was written by a Swedish novelist who invented every single quote for the book. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.balls.ie/football/an-inconvenient-truth-why-zlatans-autobiography-is-a-load-of-bollocks-341053[/URL] [I]I started to read ghostwritten football books and I must say I’ve never read such boring books in my whole life. I said to myself, ‘I can’t do it.’ Then – I shouldn’t really admit it – I decided to write it as a novel. I didn’t really quote him. I started to find this literary illusion of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and then I got into writing it. *** You can imagine the moment when I, the fake Zlatan Ibrahimovic, had to send the manuscript to the real Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He wasn’t really a book reader. He doesn’t really like journalists who take liberties and I really took liberties, so you can imagine how nervous I was. I remember he said, ‘You must come to my house and speak about the book.' I was so nervous I arrived 20 minutes early, and the police came because there were rumours there was some crazy guy walking outside Zlatan’s house. The first thing he said was: “What the ---- is this? I never said this!’ But after a while I think he understood what I was trying to do. Nowadays he thinks it’s really his story.[/I] [/QUOTE]