Zlatan: I snubbed Arsene Wenger's offer of a trial at Arsenal

The giant Swede was instrumental in AC Milan's 4-0 Champions League last-16 first-leg victory over Arsenal at San Siro on Wednesday, giving him a sunny demeanour as he spoke to Goal.com about his new biography app for the iPad, entitled 'I Am Zlatan'. And he was at his candid best when discussing a range of subjects about his life and his profession, as well as his plans to stop his children from playing football! The full interview can be read below ... How has the mood been at Milanello since Wednesday, because obviously it was a huge win? It has been OK. Of course everybody is happy, we had been struggling – not struggling really, but we had some bad negative results – before Arsenal, when we lost against Juventus and then against Lazio, and that is not good when you are a top team obviously because you have to win all the time. But the spirit in the team is very positive because a match can change everything in 24 hours; from being OK, or being bad, it becomes “Wow”. But we are under control because we play for a club that is used to winning everything, and has won everything, so the organisation already knows what kind of situation it is. We have many new players that can say “I have done this” but they are coming into history, and then we have all the experienced players that are more cool with the situation, and we have many of them. Arsenal didn’t seem to have an answer to yourself, Robinho or Kevin-Prince Boateng. Was it a surprise how easy it was to win by four goals against an Arsene Wenger side? No, it wasn’t easy. Everybody says it was easy because it was 4-0. Afterwards people said they hadn’t expected it to be so easy, but, if you go through the game, it wasn’t easy even if it was 4-0 because you still have to play the game. Beforehand, nobody thought the result would be like that, but I think we were mentally very prepared and when we came out we knew what we wanted. And normally at 1-0 or 2-0 you could relax and play out the result, but we wanted to continue. We had the engine going on, and for 90 minutes we continued, and we probably played the best game in a year. Well, I have been here a year and a half, and it’s probably the best I have ever seen us play as a team, as a collective. Sometimes you have those days when everything goes as you want it to go, but it’s easy to talk then. That’s why I chose not to talk after the game, I prefer to talk when it goes bad, because then you see how strong a person is mentally. After all, everyone can dance when they are winning, but we should dance when we are losing also. Then you see how strong a character you have.